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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2011
Applicant:
Martin Weston, Petersfield, GB;
Inventor:
Martin Weston, Petersfield, GB;
Assignee:
Snell Limited, Reading, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/00 (2011.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/257 (2006.01); H04N 5/208 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01); H04N 5/21 (2006.01); H04N 5/253 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/208 (2013.01); H04N 1/4097 (2013.01); H04N 5/21 (2013.01); H04N 5/253 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for repairing scratch impairments in which brightness values for a set of points within a narrow region of the impaired input image that is aligned with an expected scratch direction are modified in a scratch repair process; and the scratch repair process is controlled in dependence upon the relationship between the impaired brightness values and corresponding modified brightness values.