System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity...

Details System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity... System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity...

2004-12-02

2008-11-11

Ometz, David (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Combined image signal generator and general image signal...

C348S223100, C348S227100, C348S230100, C250S208100, C250S216000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07450161

ABSTRACT:
Systems, computer readable media and methods for digital processing of images captured by a sensor to enhance intensity uniformity of the images. The sensor captures an image of a white light source. Then, using the captured image, a compensation factor for each pixel of the image sensor is calculated and stored in a memory. Next, an actual image is captured by the image sensor. Subsequently, the signal intensity of each pixel is modified using the corresponding compensation factor to enhance the uniformity of the actual image.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4739394 (1988-04-01), Oda et al.
patent: 5142357 (1992-08-01), Lipton et al.
patent: 5323052 (1994-06-01), Koyama
patent: 5324930 (1994-06-01), Jech, Jr.
patent: 5422285 (1995-06-01), Ishibe
patent: 5659357 (1997-08-01), Miyano
patent: 5798847 (1998-08-01), Aerts
patent: 5838023 (1998-11-01), Goel et al.
patent: 6008511 (1999-12-01), Tokumitsu et al.
patent: 6246043 (2001-06-01), Merrill
patent: 6274917 (2001-08-01), Fan et al.
patent: 6411331 (2002-06-01), Sansom-Wai et al.
patent: 6437307 (2002-08-01), Bloss
patent: 6747808 (2004-06-01), Voss et al.
patent: 6781632 (2004-08-01), Ide
patent: 6838715 (2005-01-01), Bencuya et al.
patent: 6884985 (2005-04-01), Raynor
patent: 6903391 (2005-06-01), Takeuchi et al.
patent: 6995800 (2006-02-01), Takahashi et al.
patent: 7006135 (2006-02-01), Ishimaru et al.
patent: 7019279 (2006-03-01), Oda et al.
patent: 7049168 (2006-05-01), Findlater et al.
patent: 7161129 (2007-01-01), Galambos et al.
patent: 7236190 (2007-06-01), Yanof et al.
patent: 2001/0036305 (2001-11-01), Jun
patent: 2001/0056337 (2001-12-01), Kurita
patent: 2003/0006363 (2003-01-01), Campbell et al.
patent: 2003/0011686 (2003-01-01), Higuchi
patent: 2003/0071271 (2003-04-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 2003/0173599 (2003-09-01), Nakai
patent: 2004/0135899 (2004-07-01), Suemoto
patent: 2004/0140564 (2004-07-01), Lee et al.
patent: 2004/0165097 (2004-08-01), Drowley et al.
patent: 2005/0010621 (2005-01-01), Pinto et al.
patent: 2005/0061951 (2005-03-01), Campbell et al.
patent: 2005/0122408 (2005-06-01), Park et al.
patent: 2005/0174473 (2005-08-01), Morgan et al.
patent: 2006/0006438 (2006-01-01), Maruyama
patent: WO 2004/027875 (2004-04-01), None
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/314,452, mailed Jun. 30, 2006.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/314,452, mailed Jan. 5, 2007.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/314,452, mailed Aug. 9, 2007.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/314,452, mailed Mar. 17, 2008.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/044,376, mailed Mar. 25, 2008.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/044,376, mailed Mar. 13, 2006.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/044,376, mailed Jan. 19, 2007.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/004,465, mailed Mar. 28, 2006.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/004,465, mailed Aug. 28, 2006.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/004,465, mailed Jan. 25, 2007.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/004,465, mailed Jan. 11, 2008.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 11/004,465, mailed Jun. 2, 2008.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 10/976,693, mailed Oct. 18, 2007.
Nikon, AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D 1993, Release: http:/
ikonimaging.com/global/products/lens/af/micro/af—micro60mmf—28d/index.htm.
Office Action issued in U.S. Appl. No. 10/976,693, mailed Jun. 11, 2008.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and System and method to enhance the uniformity of intensity... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4021449