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US 2010/0150468 A1Published application
Selective Local Transient Improvement and Peaking for Video Sharpness Enhancement
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorWalid S. Ibrahim Ali
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Abstract
A method of selectively sharpening an image may include, for at least some pixels in the image, determining a frequency content associated with a pixel value in the image. The pixel may be linearly sharpened if the frequency content exceeds a threshold. The pixel may be non-linearly sharpened if the frequency content does not exceed the threshold. In some implementations, the non-linear sharpening may include wavelet decomposition of the image and enhancement of decomposed components.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a first device to locate edges in an image using wavelet decomposition modules in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions;
- and
- an amplifier coupled to said first device to selectively sharpen pixels at said edges by altering components of said wavelet decomposition of different frequencies differently.
A computer readable medium storing instructions that are executed by a computer to:
- locate edges in an image using wavelet decomposition modules in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions;
- and
- selectively sharpen pixels at said edges in an amplifier by altering components of said wavelet decomposition of different frequencies differently.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.