Targeted area image enhancement for aircraft camera system
AssigneeRosemount Aerospace Inc.
InventorKraig Stephen Lund
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Abstract
A method of enhancing a portion of an aircraft digital video image in real time includes the steps of identifying a target area within a field of view of a camera, the target area including at least a portion of an aircraft structure and a shadowed region, and selecting for enhancement a predetermined pixel subset corresponding to the target area. The method further includes capturing an image using the camera, the image represented by a signal, providing the signal to a video processing box, formatting the image within the video processing box, and applying, using a processing device, a contrast enhancement algorithm to the predetermined pixel subset to create and enhanced image.
Claims20
A method of enhancing a portion of an aircraft digital video image in real time, the method comprising:
- identifying a target area within a field of view of a camera, the target area including a least a portion of an aircraft structure and a shadowed region;
- selecting for enhancement a predetermined pixel subset corresponding to the target area;
- capturing an image using the camera, the image represented by a signal;
- providing the signal to a video processing box;
- formatting the image within the video processing box;
- and
- applying, using a processing device, a contrast enhancement algorithm to the predetermined pixel subset to create an enhanced image.
An aircraft camera system comprising:
- at least one camera configured to capture an image;
- means for enhancing contrast within a predetermined pixel subset of the image to generate an enhanced image;
- and
- a video display for displaying the enhanced image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.