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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:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Applicants:
Vivek Ashwini Sikri, Cambridge, MA (US);
Xiaofeng Michael LU, Westford, MA (US);
Inventors:
Vivek Ashwini Sikri, Cambridge, MA (US);
Xiaofeng Michael Lu, Westford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Melexis Tessenderlo NV, Tessenderlo, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for enhancing the contrast of an image. The method may include creating a histogram of an original image, determining output pixel values based on one or more thresholds that define a minimum number of pixels in each histogram bin, and correcting the original image using the output pixel values.