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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
U.s. Army Research Laboratory Attn: Rdrl-loc-i, Adelphi, MD (US);
Ronald E. Meyers, Columbia, MD (US);
Keith S. Deacon, Columbia, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method and system for improving picture quality of images by providing a series of frames of a given region of interest. One embodiment for a method includes: determining the value of each pixel at each location within each frame to form a first array of pixel values for each frame; determining the overall intensity of each frame; determining the product of the overall intensity and the array of pixel values for each frame; determining the sum of the products by adding together the products of the overall frame intensity and first array of pixel values for each frame; determining the average of the sum of products by dividing the sum of products by the number of frames in the series of frames; determining the average value of each pixel at each pixel location for the series of frames to form a second array of average pixel values; determining the average overall frame intensity for the series of frames; determining a second product of the second array of average pixel values and the average overall frame intensity; subtracting the second product from the first product to provide an improved image of the region of interest. Other improvement embodiments are also disclosed.