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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2007
Shing-chia Chen, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Ling-hsiu Huang, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Shing-Chia Chen, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Ling-Hsiu Huang, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan County, TW;
Abstract
A digital image tone remapping method is disclosed. The method includes computing an average luminance value of a digital image; generating a preliminary tone mapping function according to the average luminance value; generating a luminance statistic of the digital image; determining new remapped values for a plurality of skeleton luminance values according to the preliminary tone mapping function and the luminance statistic; generating a final tone mapping function according to the new remapped values and the plurality of skeleton luminance values; and remapping the digital image through the final tone mapping function. The present invention also discloses an apparatus performing the method.