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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Fotonation Limited, Galway, IE;
Inventor:
Shabab Bazrafkan, Galway, IE;
Assignee:
FotoNation Limited, Galway, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00026 (2013.01); G06K 9/2027 (2013.01); G06K 2009/0006 (2013.01); G06K 2009/00932 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises a set of infra-red (IR) sources surrounding an image capture sensor and a processor operatively coupled to said IR sources and said image capture sensor. The processor being arranged to acquire from the sensor a succession of images, each illuminated with a different combination of the IR sources. The processor is further arranged to combine component images corresponding to the succession of images by selecting a median value for corresponding pixel locations of the component images as a pixel value for the combined image.