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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
May. 25, 2007
Applicants:
Dudi Vakrat, Nethanya, IL;
Noam Korem, Timrat, IL;
Victor Pinto, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Zoran Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A noise reduction apparatus is presented that includes groups of one or more serially connected non-linear filter units. Each of the filter unit groups are driven by decimated input image data at a different level of decimation and the output of at least one of these groups serves as one of a plurality of inputs to another group driven at a different decimation level.