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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2009
Min-kyu Park, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-hee Park, Seoul, KR;
Sung-dae Cho, Yongin-si, KR;
Moon-gi Kang, Seoul, KR;
Chang-won Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-mook OH, Seoul, KR;
Min-Kyu Park, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-Hee Park, Seoul, KR;
Sung-Dae Cho, Yongin-si, KR;
Moon-Gi Kang, Seoul, KR;
Chang-Won Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-Mook Oh, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for adjusting a white balance in a digital imaging device. The method including the steps of: analyzing a histogram of an image to which a white balance algorithm is to be applied; classifying the image, to which the white balance algorithm is to be applied, according to color distribution determination criteria; and the white balance algorithm is applied to the image in a customized manner based on results of the classification based on color distributions. The apparatus includes an image sensor unit for photographing a subject and for creating an original image; and an image processing unit for finding an achromatic color region through estimation of a color temperature of the original image, for extracting a white point of the achromatic color region, and for adjusting a white balance of the original image.