Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration – Variable threshold – gain – or slice level
Patent
1992-12-16
1995-05-09
Mancuso, Joseph
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
Variable threshold, gain, or slice level
36441319, 382128, G06K 940
Patent
active
054147824
ABSTRACT:
The image restoration system and method of the present invention is applied to point spread functions p(x,y) which may be described in the Fourier domain as
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