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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2007
Amos Yahil, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Amos Yahil, Stony Brook, NY (US);
ImageRecon LLC, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Abstract
A curvature-preserving filter having a null covariance matrix is applied to an input image to produce a denoised output image for output to a graphic display device or to a machine analysis tool. In one embodiment, the input image is a small kernel consisting of a limited number of pixels and the filter is applied to the input image by direct summation. In another embodiment, a digital image is input into an image processor that executes a Fourier transform to produce a Fourier-transformed signal. The curvature-preserving filter is applied to the Fourier-transformed signal in Fourier space to produce a denoised signal, then the denoised signal is transformed by an inverse Fourier transform to generate a denoised output image In an alternate embodiment, the filter further produces a deblurred signal by including an inverse point-response function.