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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2010
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kshitiz Garg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kshitiz Garg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, identifying shadow edges in the image, computing gradient information for the image and modifying the gradient information relative to the shadow edges for improved performance of computer functionality in an image processing operation.