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Title:
IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR, AND NOISE ELIMINATING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3221291
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correctly eliminate noise by correctly detecting a uniform area.
SOLUTION: An analog luminance signal Ya is converted into a digital luminance signal Yd by an A/D converter 10 and supplied to a differentiator 11, a histogram generator 12 and a coefficient memory 15. An absolute value (absolute differentiated value) adv of the second-order differentiated value of the digital luminance signal Yd is calculated by the differentiator 11 and supplied to the histogram generator 12. The histogram generator 12 counts the luminance level of a digital luminance signal Yd (i, j) having the absolute differentiated value smaller than a prescribed threshold value among the absolute differentiated value adv and generates a histogram H at the luminance level for one picture. A histogram smoothing unit 13 smoothes the histogram H and generates a smoothed histogram H'. Based on the smoothed histogram H', a coefficient calculator 14 calculates a uniform area coefficient and supplies a coefficient table C to the coefficient memory 15. The coefficient memory 15 makes the uniform area coefficient correspondent to each picture element position in one picture.


Inventors:
Masami Ogata
Application Number:
JP19001595A
Publication Date:
October 22, 2001
Filing Date:
July 26, 1995
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
ソニー株式会社
International Classes:
G06T5/00; G06T5/20; G06T5/30; G06T7/00; G06T7/40; H04N1/409; H04N5/208; H04N5/21; (IPC1-7): G06T5/20; G06T5/00; G06T7/00; G06T7/40; H04N1/409
Domestic Patent References:
JP7306938A
JP1120682A
JP2171873A
JP4294466A
JP284879A
JP6480169A
JP61105973A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshio Inamoto