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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:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2009
Applicants:
Richard E. Haven, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shalini Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Richard E. Haven, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shalini Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Aptina Imaging Corporation, Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imager captures light reflecting off an object of interest and generates two or more images of the object. A controller identifies artifacts in one of the captured images and defines one or more non-interpretation regions in a binary image. The non-interpretation regions include pixels representative of the artifacts and do not include pixels representative of the object of interest. The controller performs pixel operations on the pixels in the binary image to reduce a number of artifacts in a final image.