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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
May. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Frank Mösle, Stuttgart, DE;
Dong Zhou, Stuttgart, DE;
Zhichun Lei, Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of processing image data that includes identifying picture elements of a first image portion having a first hue and a first saturation assigned to the first hue, the first hue lying in a first critical hue interval, identifying picture elements a second image portion having a second hue and a second saturation assigned to the second hue, the second hue lying in a second critical hue interval, and changing the first saturation by an amount delta S, at least one of the first and the second hues not being changed, and the delta S varying for picture elements lying in the first image portion.