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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2005
Applicants:

Michael A. Tregoning, Greeley, CO (US);

Meing Fai Nigel Cheung, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Inventors:

Michael A. Tregoning, Greeley, CO (US);

Meing Fai Nigel Cheung, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image enhancement system includes a scanning device including a photosensor element having a plurality of different color channels. The system also includes an exposure control module configured to vary an exposure time of the plurality of different color channels to generate at least two different exposure level scans of a media object. The system further includes an imaging application configured to generate an enhanced scanned image of the media object using image data obtained from the at least two different exposure level scans.


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