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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An image noise removing apparatus which removes, after removal of noise from a first image, noise included in a second image includes: a spatial noise removing unit executing an operation for removing the noise included in the second image using a pixel value included in the second image, thereby generating a spatial noise-free image; a reliability calculating unit calculating a reliability indicating how dynamic the second image is, based on the spatial noise-free image, the second image, and a first noise-free image which is generated from the first image with the noise therein removed; and a temporal blending unit performing, based on the reliability, a weighted summation on the second image and the first noise-free image, thereby removing the noise included in the second image.