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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:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

May. 11, 2009
Applicants:

Gianluca Filippini, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Xiaosong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);

Hsi-jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

James Oliver Normile, Los Altos, CA (US);

Xiaojin Shi, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Ionut Hristodorescu, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gianluca Filippini, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Xiaosong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);

Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

James Oliver Normile, Los Altos, CA (US);

Xiaojin Shi, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Ionut Hristodorescu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04N 19/122 (2014.01); H04N 19/91 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/154 (2014.01); H04N 19/124 (2014.01); H04N 19/103 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/00084 (2013.01); H04N 19/00951 (2013.01); H04N 19/00278 (2013.01); H04N 19/002 (2013.01); H04N 19/0009 (2013.01); H04N 19/00018 (2013.01); H04N 19/00781 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provides a method and device for processing a source video. The method and device may provide computing an artifact estimation from differences among pixels selected from spatially-distributed sampling patterns in the source video; filtering the source video to produce a filtered version of the source video, computing a blending factor based on the artifact estimation in the source video, and computing an output video by blending the source video and the filtered version of the source video based on the blending factor.


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