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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2000
Timothy J. Trenary, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Joan L. Mitchell, Longmont, CO (US);
Charles A. Micchelli, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Marco Martens, Chappaqua, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A one-dimensional algorithm for perform the merging of complementary portions from two independent overlapped images on the same 8×8 grid without the computational expense of conversion to and from the real domain is extended to a two-dimensional procedure. The merging process is performed exclusively in the frequency domain. The extension to two dimensions is done by shifting and/or merging rows of side-by-side two-dimensional transformed data blocks using the one-dimensional algorithm. Then a vertical shifting and/or merging can be performed on the horizontally shifted and/or merged blocks again using the one-dimensional algorithm with an independent shift/merge parameter.