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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2011
Applicants:
Herbert Bruder, Höchstadt, DE;
Rainer Raupach, Heroldsbach, DE;
Johan Sunnegardh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The method includes a weighted highpass filtering of the image data takes place here, with the weighting taking account, image element by image element, of an image noise on the respective image element in different directions such that increasing noise results in a stronger highpass effect. A noise-reducing smoothing of the image data takes place using the weighted highpass filtering.