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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Applicant:
Nozomu Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Nozomu Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Taiwan Limited, Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing device utilizes a morphological filter such as an opening type morphological filter and a closing type morphological filter to remove a hole or a chunk in an over-luminance area of an image, thereby to display a zebra pattern masked on the over-luminance area more clearly, and accordingly a user can achieve a high quality image.