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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
May. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Tetsuo Ogino, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuo Ogino, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
For the purpose of providing an image processing method for properly performing filtering, a local region is defined containing a pixel of interest in an original image (); pixel groups are defined in the region in a plurality of modes (); a pixel group mode which best fits a structure of the original image in the local region is selected (); and an average pixel value of the pixel group which contains the pixel of interest is used as a new pixel value for the pixel of interest.