The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2011
Efrain O. Morales, Rochester, NY (US);
John F. Hamilton, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Efrain O. Morales, Rochester, NY (US);
John F. Hamilton, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes providing a first image having sparsely sampled panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses. The method also includes interpolating the panchromatic pixels to provide a full-resolution panchromatic image. A noise-reduced value for a particular color pixel in the first image is provided by: selecting a neighborhood of color pixels surrounding a particular color pixel, selecting a neighborhood of panchromatic pixels from the full resolution panchromatic image, and using the values from the selected neighborhoods of color and panchromatic pixels to provide the noise reduced value for the particular color pixel.