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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2009
Applicants:
Radu Gheorghe, Richardson, TX (US);
Milivoje Aleksic, San Diego, CA (US);
Sergio Goma, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Radu Gheorghe, Richardson, TX (US);
Milivoje Aleksic, San Diego, CA (US);
Sergio Goma, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/407 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image noise filter includes a wavelet transform module and an edge based adaptive filter module. The dual tree wavelet transform module provides low frequency wavelet information and high frequency wavelet information in response to image information. The edge based adaptive filter module provides filtered high frequency wavelet information in response to the high frequency wavelet information and edge information that is based on the low frequency wavelet information.