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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jian Sun, Beiijing, CN;

Heung-Yeung Shum, Beiijing, CN;

Lu Yuan, Hong Kong, CN;

Long Quan, Hong Kong, CN;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/64 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments related to the removal of blur from an image are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a method of performing an iterative non-blind deconvolution of a blurred image to form an updated image. The method comprises downsampling the blurred image to form a blurred image pyramid comprising images of two or more different resolution scales, downsampling a blur kernel to form a blur kernel pyramid comprising kernels of two or more different sizes, and deconvoluting a selected image in the blurred image pyramid according to a Richardson-Lucy deconvolution process in which a bilateral range/spatial filter is employed.


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