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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004

Filed:

Oct. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:

Bo Tao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 ; H04N 1/46 ; G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/32 ; G03F 3/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 ; H04N 1/46 ; G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/32 ; G03F 3/08 ;
Abstract

A digital camera is provided having a lens for focusing light from an image through a RGB mosaiced filter on to a solid state photosensor array containing a matrix of CCDs. The CCDs provide a single-channel mosaiced image output. A demosaicing process includes a first color transformation after separation for determining luminance and a luminance interpolation for interpolation of missing luminance components. The demosaicing process further includes a second color transformation for obtaining chrominance components. A chrominance interpolation for interpolation of missing chrominance components and an inverse color transformation transforms the components into the RGB space for combination into an image output.


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