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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2013
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Mark Friedhoff, Miami Beach, FL (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Grand Junction, CO (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Benton, ME (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, performing an image segregation operation on the image file to generate a set of intrinsic images corresponding to the image, modifying a preselected one of the set of intrinsic images according to a set of preselected operations and merging the modified one of the set of intrinsic images relative to the set of intrinsic images to provide a modified output image.