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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2017
Foveon, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jiashu Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shrinath Ramaswami, San Jose, CA (US);
Ion Uehara, Kanagawa, JP;
Foveon, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for performing restoration for highlights and saturated regions in a digital image includes analyzing the pixels in the image and compensating an appropriate amount to identified highlights and saturated pixels. For a pixel with vertical color channels, the output for each channel is highly correlated, and each color channel can be recovered as a combination of the other channels. Each selected pixel in the highlights or saturated regions is identified as a restorable pixel only if at least two color channels of the pixel are not saturated. For each restorable pixel, a replacement pixel value is generated by using the equation derived from the color channels correlation. For pixels where more than one color channel is saturated, the similarity is calculated between these pixels and restored pixels. These pixels can be compensated using the combination of the similarity index and the pixel values of other color channels.