Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration – Artifact removal or suppression
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Mehta, Bhavesh M. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
Artifact removal or suppression
C382S236000, C382S298000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07136538
ABSTRACT:
In order to reduce noise appropriately according to scaling factor and a degree of motion of an image and to suppress degradation in image quality resulting from the noise reduction to a negligible level, a noise reduction control section outputs a noise detection instruction, a noise detection threshold instruction and a filtering mode instruction based on a scale factor output from a scale factor calculating section and a motion detection result output from a motion detecting section. A mosquito noise reducing section and a blocking artifact reducing section in a noise reducing section adaptively conducts an appropriate noise reducing process using noise detection sensitivity and the number of filter taps and a filter coefficient of a smoothing filter according to these instructions.
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Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Mehta Bhavesh M.
Tucker Wes
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