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2006-07-28

2009-11-10

Bella, Matthew C (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image enhancement or restoration

Focus measuring or adjusting

C382S260000, C348S208400

Reexamination Certificate

active

07616826

ABSTRACT:
A computer method and system for deblurring an image is provided. The invention method and system of deblurring employs statistics on distribution of intensity gradients of a known model. The known model is based on a natural image which may be unrelated to the subject image to be deblurred by the system. Given a subject image having blur, the invention method/system estimates a blur kernel and a solution image portion corresponding to a sample area of the subject image, by applying the statistics to intensity gradients of the sample area and solving for most probable solution image. The estimation process is carried out at multiple scales and results in a blur kernel. In a last step, the subject image is deconvolved image using the resulting blur kernel. The deconvolution generates a deblurred image corresponding to the subject image.

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