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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) Sas, Grenoble, FR;
Inventors:
Gregory Roffet, Coublevie, FR;
Pascal Mellot, Lans en Vercors, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, Grenoble, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/009 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10144 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of generation, by a digital processing device, of a first high dynamic range digital image from second and third digital images of a same scene, including, for at least one point of the first image: determining a brightness index; comparing this index with at least one of first, second, third, and fourth decreasing thresholds stored in a memory; and determining the value of the point by taking into account the value of the index.