Mechanism for deriving noise-reduced estimates of color signal p

Details Mechanism for deriving noise-reduced estimates of color signal p Mechanism for deriving noise-reduced estimates of color signal p

1989-12-18

1993-11-23

Chin, Tommy

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

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358 52, H04N 5213, H04N 900

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052649245

ABSTRACT:
Color and luminance measurement signals produced by the multiple sensors of a multiband (e.g. RGB color) image signal processing system are processed to reduce noise. For images such as those obtained from a multi-dye film, the luminance component of the output signal from the luminance sensor may be expressed as a function of the color components of the color sensor output signals. A first signal, representative of the constructed low frequency luminance signal, is produced as a linear function of the color sensor output signals, employing signal weighting coefficients derivable from intrinsic characteristics of the scanned image, such as the respective dye densities of a three layer color film. The luminance measurement signal derived from the luminance sensor is subtracted from this first signal, to produce a second signal, which is multiplied by a set of respective scaling factors, which are then subtracted from each color sensor output, so as to derive a set of noise-reduced estimates of the color components of each of the color sensor output signals. Each scaling factor is defined in accordance with the noise variances associated with the operation of the color image sensors and the luminance image sensor, and is proportional to a product of a corresponding one of the coefficients and the ratio of the noise variance associated with the operation of a respective color image sensor to a summation of the noise variances associated with the operation of each of the color sensors and the luminance sensor.

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