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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2017
Applicant:

Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ajay Bedi, Hamirpur, IN;

Subham Gupta, Roorkee, IN;

Poonam Bhalla, New Delhi, IN;

Krishna Singh Karki, New Delhi, IN;

Assignee:

Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 9/646 (2013.01);
Abstract

A reflection removal system is capable of automatically removing from digital images reflections related to photographic illumination sources ('flash'), at the time of capture, without user intervention. In an embodiment, the reflection removal system receives a set of digital images taken at substantially the same time from a camera, where one of the image is affected by flash. The images are divided into blocks, and a threshold is determined for each block, indicating the brightest pixel value related to the content of the block. The reflection removal system compares each pixel in the flash-affected image to the corresponding threshold, and generates a digital mask based on the comparison. The reflection removal system creates a corrected image based on the digital mask, such that pixels affected by flash are modified based on corresponding pixels in the other images. In an embodiment, the corrected image is color blended.


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