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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshiaki Matsuzawa, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 ; G06K 9/40 ; G06F 1/710 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 ; G06K 9/40 ; G06F 1/710 ;
Abstract
A 4-line buffer sequentially takes in image data items and temporarily stores a specific size of image data. A spatial filter in which a coefficient matrix based on the no-neighbor algorithm in a restoration process has been set performs a spatial filtering process on the image data items sequentially outputted from the 4-line buffer to produce a restored image based on the no-neighbor algorithm. This enables images to be restored in real time, which produces an image whose luminance distribution is approximate to that of the specimen.