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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Dean Andrew Pulsifer, Lexington, KY (US);
Inventor:
Dean Andrew Pulsifer, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for enhancing an image includes generating a luminance histogram for the image; generating a derivative histogram by taking a first derivative of the luminance histogram; searching for a plurality of black peaks and searching for a plurality of white peaks using the derivative histogram; and performing luminance scaling of the image between one black peak of the plurality of black peaks and one white peak of the plurality of white peaks.