Adaptive image filter for filtering image information

A device comprising:

• an image sensor array that captures image information, wherein the image sensor array includes a plurality of image sensors that capture image information associated with a plurality of pixels;
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• an adaptive image filter that computes differences between image information associated with a pixel of interest and image information associated with pixels that surround the pixel of interest, determines a low pass component and a high pass component of a filter as a function of the computed differences, and applies the filter to the image information associated with the pixel of interest.

The device of claim 16, wherein the adaptive image filter divides the low pass component value by a programmable value to determine the low pass component of the filter.

A device comprising:

• an image sensor array with a plurality of image sensors that capture image information associated with a plurality of pixels, wherein the image information associated with each of the pixels represents one of a plurality of colors;
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• an adaptive image filter that selects a pixel of interest and a set of surrounding pixels from the plurality of pixels, computes differences between image information associated with the pixel of interest and image information associated with each of the surrounding pixels of the set, and filters the image information associated with the pixel of interest as a function of the computed differences, wherein the image information associated with the set of surrounding pixels and the pixel of interest represents the same color.