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Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Frederic Cao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Touraj Tajbakhsh, San Jose, CA (US);

Muge Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/643 (2013.01); H04N 5/2327 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 9/735 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to generation of hue maps for highlight recovery of an input image. An image having a plurality of color channels is obtained at a first resolution lower than a resolution of the input image. A hue for each color channel for each pixel is determined, using a pixel value for that color channel and pixel values for the plurality of color channels in the first image. Weights are determined for each pixel for each color channel, based on hues for the pixel and pixel values for the pixel in the first image. A plurality of candidate hue maps are generated, based on the weights and pixel values in the first image in a patch surrounding the pixel for the plurality of color channels.


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