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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2006
Applicant:
Pieter Vuylsteke, Mortsel, BE;
Inventor:
Pieter Vuylsteke, Mortsel, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa HealthCare, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of generating a contrast enhanced version of a grey value image by applying contrast amplification to a multiscale representation of the grey value image wherein density in the contrast enhanced version as a function of grey value and contrast amplification are specified independently.