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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. 28, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);

Inventors:

Timothy Good, Indian Land, SC (US);

Patrick Anthony Giordano, Glassboro, NJ (US);

Assignee:

HAND HELD PRODUCTS INC., Fort Mill, SC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 9/43 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/48 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 1/484 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 9/43 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided for constructing a composite image. The method comprises illuminating an object with light of a particular spectral band, capturing a digital image of the illuminated object using a monochromatic image sensor of an imaging device to obtain a monochrome image, repeating the steps of illuminating and capturing to obtain a plurality of monochrome images of the object illuminated by light of a plurality of different spectral bands, processing the plurality of monochrome images to generate image data for one or more output channels, and generating a color composite image from the image data. The color composite image comprises the one or more output channels.


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