Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image enhancement apparatus and method
- Patent Title (中): 图像增强装置及方法
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Application No.: US13399405Application Date: 2012-02-17
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Publication No.: US08768069B2Publication Date: 2014-07-01
- Inventor: Paul Springer , Toru Nishi , Martin Richter , Matthias Brueggemann
- Applicant: Paul Springer , Toru Nishi , Martin Richter , Matthias Brueggemann
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: EP11155849 20110224
- Main IPC: G06K9/48
- IPC: G06K9/48

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an image enhancement apparatus for enhancing an input image of a sequence of input images. To provide the ability to increase the resolution of an input image and/or to temporally reduce artifacts and/or noise in an input image, the apparatus comprises a motion compensation unit, a weighted selection unit, a feature analysis unit, an image model unit configured to generate a modelled image by applying an image model on said input image and/or said weighted selection image, a spatio-temporal detail signal generation unit configured to generate a detail signal from said input image and said weighted selection image, and a combination unit configured to generate said enhanced output image from said input image, said detail signal and said modelled image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120219229A1 IMAGE ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2012-08-30
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