摘要:
A method for processing a digital image in a distributed manner to produce a final modified digital image includes providing a source digital image at a first computer, providing the source digital image at a second computer, and modifying the source digital image at the second computer to form a first modified digital image. The method further includes determining a difference digital image representing the difference between the source digital image and the first modified digital image, transferring the difference digital image to the first computer, and combining the difference digital image with the source digital image at the first computer to form the final modified digital image.
摘要:
A method for correcting for exposure in a digital image, captured by an image capture device, including rendering such captured digital image suitable for display and displaying such captured digital image as a first displayed digital image; and using an adjustable exposure setting to nonlinearly modify the rendered captured digital image to effect an exposure change and displaying the exposure modified rendered captured digital image as a second digital image simultaneous with the first displayed digital image.
摘要:
A new multitoning technique is proposed that combines error diffusion, blue-noise dithering and over-modulation in an adaptive algorithm to achieve high quality multilevel printing with smooth texture transition. A periodic dither signal is first added to an input digital image wherein the amplitude of the periodic dither signal is a function of the input pixel value for each input pixel. The amplitude of the periodic dither signal is larger for input pixel values near the N output levels, and the amplitude of the periodic dither signal is smaller for input pixel values intermediate to the N output levels to produce a modified input image. Then, a multi-level error diffusion halftoning algorithm is applied to the modified input image wherein the error diffusion halftoning algorithm uses a set of error feedback weights which are adjusted according to the original input pixel value for each input pixel. The sum of the error feedback weights is smaller for input pixel values near the N output levels, and the sum of the error feedback weights is larger for input pixel values intermediate to the N output levels to produce an output multi-level digital image.
摘要:
A method for determining a control signal for use in combining a first digital image that includes both a foreground region and a key color region having an associated key color with a second background digital image, both images including pixels having color values is disclosed. The method includes segmenting the first digital image into a foreground region and a key color region; and identifying transition region pixels in the first digital image that are in the vicinity of a boundary between the segmented foreground region and the segmented key color region. The method further includes computing a color difference signal between the color values of the first digital image and the key color for at least some pixels in the transition region; and computing a control signal for transition region pixels as a function of the color difference signal, where the control signal is to be used to combine the foreground region of the first digital image with the second background digital image.
摘要:
A method for transforming input color values to device control signals for a color printing device having an output response that is approximately invariant for ranges of the device control signals near the maximum or minimum allowable device control signals, wherein the input color values are transformed into the device control signals that are to be used to reproduce the input color values is disclosed. The method includes determining color reproduction characteristics for the color printing device over an allowable range of input signal values; determining a full color gamut for the color printing device describing a full range of color values that can be produced by the color printing device; creating a reduced color gamut by shrinking the full color gamut; and transforming the input color values to the device control signals using the determined color reproduction characteristics of the color printing device, wherein the input color values that are outside the reduced color gamut are mapped to color values that are on or within the reduced color gamut.
摘要:
A method for halftoning a digital image having an x,y array of pixels each having an associated input pixel value, includes the steps of providing a memory containing a dither bitmap for each input pixel value of the digital image where the dither bitmaps are partially correlated; selecting a dither bitmap corresponding to the input pixel value for a pixel in said digital image; modularly addressing the selected dither bitmap with the location of said pixel to obtain an output halftone image value; and repeating steps for each pixel in the digital image.
摘要:
A method for combining a first digital image and a second background digital image, both images including pixels having color values, wherein the first digital image includes both a foreground region having foreground color values and a key color region characterized by a key color, as well as a mixed region where the pixel color values are a mixture of the foreground color value and the key color, includes determining a first control signal that indicates the relative proportions of the foreground color value and the key color for pixels in the first digital image; and segmenting the first digital image into a key color region and a non-key color region in which the non-key color region includes pixels in the first digital image that are not in the key color region. The method also includes determining a second control signal that indicates a spatial distance between the pixels in the first digital image and a boundary between the key color region and the non-key color region; and combining the first digital image and the second background digital image in response to the first and second control signals, the key color, and an illuminant color value.
摘要:
Multi-channel color image signals from a digital camera having multi-channel image sensors are corrected to account for variations in scene illuminant. This is accomplished by determining the scene illuminant and determining an optimum color-correction transformation in response to the scene illuminant which transform minimizes color errors between an original scene and a reproduced image by adjusting three or more parameters.
摘要:
An error diffusion method suitable for producing an output image from an input image having a set of digitized continuous-tone pixels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of computing an image activity signal; computing a set of activity weights from the image activity signal; computing a filtered input value for a digitized continuous-tone input pixel responsive to the activity weights and computing a filtered output value responsive to the activity weights for each of the possible output levels. The method further includes selecting the output level in response to the filtered input value and the filtered output value for each of the possible output levels according to an error criterion; determining an error signal between the filtered input value and the filtered output value for the selected output level; and weighting the error signal and adjusting the filtered input values for nearby pixels which have not yet been processed.
摘要:
A method for compressing a first bit digital input representative of first pixel data into a second bit digital output representative of second pixel data, the method comprises the steps of defining a logarithmic function for converting the first bit digital input into the second bit digital output; replacing a portion of the logarithmic function with a polynomial function; and compressing the first bit digital input into the second bit digital output by utilizing the logarithmic and polynomial function.