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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2010
Applicant:
Hyun-ock Yim, Suwon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Hyun-ock Yim, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of controlling a digital photographing device, the method including analyzing the color distribution of an input image, determining an enhancement color from the input image according to a predetermined criterion based on the analyzed color distribution, and enhancing the enhancement color in the input image. The predetermined criterion may be that a color distributed at a ratio higher than a predetermined ratio is determined as the enhancement color. The predetermined enhancement color may further depend on the focal length of the image.