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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2009
Applicants:
Sang JO Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Young Su Moon, Seoul, KR;
Ho Jin Lee, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for auto white balance adjusting using an effective area. The auto white balance adjusting apparatus may extract a grey area from an input image, and select an effective area from the grey area according to color temperature and luminance, thereby performing white balance using the effective area. The auto white balance adjusting apparatus may perform white balance of the input image using image information of the effective area which is a more precise grey area, thereby improving the white balance.