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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2001
Roger A. Morton, Penfield, NY (US);
Gabriel Fielding, Webster, NY (US);
Christian L. Lurin, Saint Marcel, FR;
Roger A. Morton, Penfield, NY (US);
Gabriel Fielding, Webster, NY (US);
Christian L. Lurin, Saint Marcel, FR;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for digitally processing motion image signals comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining digital motion image signals that originated from a sequence of motion picture frames; (b) using a frame averaging technique to reduce noise in the digital motion image signals, thereby producing noise-processed motion image signals; and (c) producing output digital motion image signals by sharpening the noise-processed motion image signals with a sharpening filter designed in the spatial domain with a 2D kernel that increases the noise in order to provide a desired grain response.