摘要:
A noise reduction method, medium, and system. The noise reduction method includes calculating a noise level of an input image and removing noise from a central pixel within a window of a predetermined size in the input image using a weight determined based on a difference between signal intensities of the central pixel and a plurality of adjacent pixels within the window and the calculated noise level.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for rendering an image signal by adding another one color different from an inputted color, to an image signal composed of a predetermined number (for example, RGB) of components, is provided. The method for rendering image signals which represent a predetermined number of colors in an apparatus for rendering an image signal of which pixels have three sub-pixels, comprises (a) receiving a predetermined number of color signals and converting the predetermined number of color signals into four-color signals to be represented in the sub-pixels, (b) selecting two-color signals to be outputted alternatively in every other pixels out of the four-color signals and selecting only one-color signal for each position of a pixel area from the two-color signal, (c) recalculating a level value of the selected one-color signal to be represented in the sub-pixels, and (d) controlling image signals to be represented in the sub-pixels according to the level value of the one-color signal calculated in (c).
摘要:
A method of enhancing contrast includes obtaining a first luminance histogram of an input image; generating a second luminance histogram through pixel redistribution for the first luminance histogram; computing a conversion function based on both a first cumulative density function based on the first luminance histogram and a second cumulative density function based on the second luminance histogram; and changing the luminance distribution of the input image based on the conversion function.
摘要:
An image browsing apparatus capable of calculating color temperature of an image and browsing the image based on the color temperature, and a method of browsing an image are provided. The image browsing apparatus includes a data storage unit for storing a plurality of image data; a color temperature calculator for calculating the color temperature of each image and storing the calculated color temperature in the data storage unit; a command input unit for inputting an image browsing mode; and a color temperature browser for classifying images corresponding to the browsing mode using the color temperature as an image search condition and then, browsing the classified images. The method of browsing images includes determining the color temperature of an input image when a browsing mode is input; and browsing images when the color temperature falls within the color temperature range of the browsing mode.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for measuring a color-texture distance and a method and apparatus for sectioning an image into a plurality of regions using the measured color-texture distance are provided. The method of measuring a color-texture distance includes the steps of: assigning different degrees of importance to a brightness difference, a saturation difference, and a hue difference between two points in a color feature space constituted of color feature values of pixels in an image, and adding the brightness difference, the saturation difference, and the hue difference in proportion to the assigned degrees of importance to calculate a color distance between the two points; obtaining a texture distance between the two points using a difference between texture feature values of the two points and weighting coefficients applied to multi scales of a texture, in a texture feature space constituted of texture feature values for the pixels; and multiplying a color weight value and a texture weight value by the color distance and the texture distance, respectively, adding the multiplication results to each other, and obtaining the color-texture distance between the two points. The degrees of importance are determined on the basis that a hue is more important than a brightness or a saturation, a color becomes black as the brightness approaches an absolute value, and the hue has an arbitrary value as the saturation approaches the absolute value.
摘要:
An apparatus for converting input image signals into image signals that can be displayed in an image display device. The image display device includes a color space converter converting color components of the input image signals and color components that can be displayed in the image display device into color space, a hue control variable calculator comparing a converted color gamut with each other to calculate a hue control variable, and a hue controller controlling hues of the input image signals using the hue control variable.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for generating a white signal component and for controlling the brightness of an image are provided. In the above method and apparatus, the brightness increases of Red, Green and Blue, the saturations of which are not decreased from an input image are calculated using a vector, and the minimum value of such increases is utilized as the input value for the white component. Further, by adding brightness control components of RGB color to the input RGB signals, brightness increases in the direction of the original colors instead of the achromatic one are possible, which is the way the white component is added so as to increase the luminance of color display devices representing a color using a color filter such a flat panel display. Accordingly, a color saturation of the image is not decreased even with addition of the achromatic color a component. In other words, in converting a signal from the three colors such as RGB into the four colors inclusive of white component, the present invention is capable of increasing the brightness without reduction of saturation as well as extracting the white component in an easy and efficient way, which enhances the performance of image processing apparatuses such as color display devices and the like.
摘要:
An image segmenting apparatus and method is provided. The image segmenting apparatus includes an initial image segmenting unit, a region structurizing unit and a redundant region combiner. The initial image segmenting unit converts color signals of an input image into a color space which is based on predetermined signals, and segments the input image into a plurality of regions according to positions of color pixels of the input image in the color space. The region structurizing unit classifies the plurality of regions into layers according to horizontal, adjacent relation and hierarchical, inclusive relation between the regions, and groups adjacent regions into region groups in each layer, so as to derive a hierarchical, inclusive relation between the region groups. The redundant region combiner determines the order in which adjacent regions are combined according to the horizontal, adjacent relation between regions and the hierarchical, inclusive relation between region groups. The redundant region combiner also determines whether to combine adjacent regions according to the determined combination order, and combines adjacent regions if the adjacent regions are determined to be substantially the same. Even if regions appears to be adjacent each other in a region adjacent graph (RAG), a structural inclusive relation between regions can be derived by excluding the combination of the regions or rearranging their combination order according to a hierarchical structure. Subsequently, the mutual relation between two regions can be inferred from the inclusive relation even if the color signals of the two regions, for example, a region in a highlighted area and a region in its surrounding area, are not similar to each other.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of correcting a chromatic aberration of an image, and in particular, to an apparatus and method of correcting a chromatic aberration of an image that can correct a general chromatic aberration of an edge or an extreme chromatic aberration, such as a purple fringe, in an image.An apparatus for correcting a chromatic aberration of an image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an edge detection unit detecting an edge of an input image, a level calculation unit calculating a chromatic aberration level of the detected edge, and a correction unit correcting the edge using different weighted values according to the calculated chromatic aberration level.
摘要:
A system, medium, and method compensating brightness of an image, by compensating the brightness of a main object included in the image. The system includes a brightness distribution calculation unit dividing the obtained image into a plurality of divided regions and calculating the brightness distribution of each divided region, and a compensation unit determining a main region including a main object in the obtained image according to the calculated brightness distribution and compensating the obtained image according to the determination result.