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Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2021
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Su Ram Cha, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2023.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2013.01); G06T 3/4015 (2013.01); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); H04N 9/04515 (2018.08); H04N 9/04555 (2018.08); H04N 9/735 (2013.01);
Abstract

A demosaic operation circuit includes a white pixel value estimation circuit suitable for acquiring an RGB channel average value and a directional gradient value of a white pixel for each direction using source pixel data provided from a pixel array, and estimating a white pixel value based on the RGB channel average value and the directional gradient value of the white pixel; a fine adjustment circuit suitable for finely adjusting an estimated white pixel value by removing noise through a different filter based on weight values which are differently allocated according to a gradient of a center pixel and a neighboring white pixel; a chroma estimation circuit suitable for estimating a chroma by calculating a chroma array based on the source pixel data and an adjusted white pixel value; and a color correction circuit suitable for correcting a color based on a finely adjusted white pixel value and the chroma.


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