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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Christiaan Varekamp, Eindhoven, NL;
Patrick Luc Els Vandewalle, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a depth map source () providing a depth map for an image and a confidence map source () providing a confidence map with confidence values for pixels of the depth map. The confidence values designate the pixels as confident or non-confident pixels reflecting whether the depth value meets a reliability criterion or not. A depth modifier () performs a depth modification operation which modifies depth values for pixels of the depth map. A modified depth value for a first pixel is determined as a current depth value for the first pixel if this is designated as a confident pixel or if there are no confident pixels within a neighborhood set of pixels, and otherwise the modified value is determined as the maximum of the current depth value and a depth value determined as a function of depth values of pixels within the neighborhood set being designated as confident pixels.