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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ramin Eslami, Milpitas, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Various aspects of a system and method for image-processing are disclosed herein. The method, implemented in an image-processing device, comprises computation of an average bin value of a histogram for a first color channel of an image. The histogram includes a plurality of bins with a pre-determined bin size, based on pixel values of the first color channel. An adaptive threshold step size is determined for each bin in the histogram, based on a ratio of a bin value of each bin of the plurality of bins and the computed average bin value of the histogram. The method further includes computation of a set of Boolean maps that correspond to a set of threshold values, based on the adaptive threshold step size for each bin. A saliency map is generated based on the computed set of Boolean maps.