Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images
-
Application No.: US14859103Application Date: 2015-09-18
-
Publication No.: US09967535B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Rajiv Laroia , Nitesh Shroff , Sapna A Shroff
- Applicant: THE LIGHTCO INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Light Labs Inc.
- Current Assignee: Light Labs Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Straub & Straub
- Agent Michael P. Straub; Stephen T. Straub
- Main IPC: H04N13/00
- IPC: H04N13/00 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T5/20 ; G06T5/50 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/247 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N13/02

Abstract:
Various features relating to reducing and/or eliminating noise from images are described. In some embodiments depth based denoising is used on images captured by one or more camera modules based on depth information of a scene area and optical characteristics of the one or more camera modules used to captures the images. In some embodiments by taking into consideration the camera module optics and the depth of the object included in the image portion, a maximum expected frequency can be determined and the image portion is then filtered to reduce or remove frequencies above the maximum expected frequency. In this way noise can be reduced or eliminated from image portions captured by one or more camera modules. The optical characteristic of different camera modules may be different. In some embodiments a maximum expected frequency is determined on a per camera module and depth basis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160309133A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING NOISE IN IMAGES Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
Information query