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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2009
Stephen D. Zelinka, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul S. Heckbert, Edgewood, PA (US);
Stephen D. Zelinka, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul S. Heckbert, Edgewood, PA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for updating mosaics of digital source images are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for updating a mosaic of digital source images includes segmenting the mosaic to regions, generating a plurality of region-statistics where each region-statistics correspond to image characteristics of one region, organizing the plurality of region-statistics in a database, and updating the mosaic using at least one target region-statistics from the organized plurality of region-statistics. Updating the mosaic can include color correcting. The method for updating a mosaic of digital source images can also includes optimizing the organized plurality of region-statistics, wherein the optimizing is based on one or more reference region-statistics from the organized plurality of region-statistics.