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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2003
Applicants:
Je-ho Lee, Vancouver, WA (US);
Jay S. Gondek, Camas, WA (US);
Inventors:
Je-Ho Lee, Vancouver, WA (US);
Jay S. Gondek, Camas, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of filtering an input image is provided. In a creating action, a boolean tone map is created based on the input image and an array of tone nodes. In a determining action, it is determined whether or not a target pixel is in a tone region by examining the target pixel and a neighboring region of pixels. If the target pixel is in a tone region, in a selecting action, a first base-filter is selected for the tone region. A method of resolution dependent filtering is also provided.