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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2011
Applicants:
IL Soon Lim, Chungcheongnam-Do, KR;
Ho Cheon Wey, Seongnam-si, KR;
Byung Tae OH, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A depth image encoding apparatus and a depth image decoding apparatus are provided. The depth image encoding apparatus may compute coefficients used to restore an edge region and a smooth region of a depth image, and may restore the depth image using the depth image and a color image.