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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2014
Foveon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rastislav Lukac, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ken Doyle, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Foveon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for performing highlight restoration on a digital image includes comparing the pixels in the image with a saturation level value to identify saturated pixels. A saturation map of saturated pixels is generated. Each selected saturated pixel is identified as a restorable pixel only if at least one color channel of the pixel is unsaturated. For each restorable pixel, a group of the closest unsaturated pixels above, below, to the left, and to the right of the select saturated pixel is identified. A replacement pixel value is generated for each saturated color channel of the restorable pixel, using a combination of the pixel values of the unsaturated color channels of the restorable pixel and the pixel values of the corresponding color channels of the nearby unsaturated pixels.