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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2006
Applicant:
Shu Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shu Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); H04N 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 9/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An inventive method obtaining film grains from a picture and processing the obtained film grains using a statistical distribution to determine new film grains. Preferably, a histogram of obtained film grain is subjected to the statistical distribution, which can be a normal distribution. Parameters of the normal distribution are controlled to determine the new film grains.