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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1999
Takashi Morino, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an image processing method, apparatus and computer program for improving an image sensed by an image sensing apparatus and processed according to a first conversion process. The present invention involves determining whether or not the first conversion process includes a nonlinear conversion, processing the image according to a second conversion process inverse to the first conversion process if the first conversion process includes the nonlinear conversion, and processing the image processed according to the second conversion process, according to a function for improving the image.
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