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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Won-hee Choe, Gyeonggu-si, KR;

Jae-hyun Kwon, Yongin-si, KR;

Seong-deok Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/48 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 9/67 (2006.01); H04N 9/76 (2006.01); H04N 9/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/332 (2013.01); H04N 1/486 (2013.01); H04N 5/23232 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 9/67 (2013.01); H04N 9/76 (2013.01); H04N 9/78 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are an image composition apparatus for composing color images with black-and-white images including infrared components, and an image composition method thereof. The image composition method includes generating a first image signal with color information and a second image signal including infrared components without color information, dividing the first image signal into a brightness signal and a color signal, composing the brightness signal of the first image signal with a brightness signal of the second image signal to generate a composed brightness signal, and composing the composed brightness signal with the color signal of the first image signal to generate a color image.


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