Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-15
2005-02-15
Mehta, Bhavesh M. (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
C382S252000, C382S255000, C382S274000, C382S275000, C358S003260, C358S003270, C358S463000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06856702
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for processing an image based on noise appearance in the image, includes the steps of and means for: forming a noise table representing noise magnitude vs. intensity of the image; providing a plurality of potential image processing paths, each path having at least one image transform; modifying the noise table according to the image transform(s) in the at least one image processing path to produce an output noise table, generating a noise metric from the output noise table, said noise metric representing the noise appearance of the image processed by the at least one image processing path; selecting one of the plurality of potential image processing paths based on the noise metric; and applying the selected image processing path to the image.
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