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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 14, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Grayson Lang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Krishnendu Chaudhury, Saratoga, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations of edge-aware smoothing, a method includes determining a boundary map for an input image, where the boundary map associates one of multiple different labels to each pixel of the input image, and the labels indicate one or more edges in the input image. The method determines a set of input pixels of the input image eligible to influence an output pixel of an output image, the output pixel corresponding to a pixel of the input image. A blurred pixel value for the output pixel is determined, where the blurred pixel value is based on the set of input pixels and associated labels from the boundary map that correspond to the set of input pixels. The associated labels are used to reduce blurring in the output image of any of the one or more edges present in the set of input pixels.