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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Munib A Wober, Haverhill, MA (US);
Ibrahim Hajjahmad, Sommerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382275 ; 382232 ;
Abstract
In order to prevent or minimize blocking artifacts from appearing in an image due to independent processing of each overlapped block of an image by one of many different filters, true pixel correction values are calculated, then added to each pixel of the image so that the transition between adjacent blocks of pixels will be smooth. This corrective method coined 'stitching' is applied in either the spatial or the frequency domain to each block of filtered pixels in the image and generally includes the steps of: