US 2024/0257322 A1Published application

Spotlight image enhancement

AssigneeBAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

InventorsJohn J. Henebury, Lori L. Vinciguerra, Jaime A. Caicedo Baquerizo, Gregory W. Sletterink, Robin L. Brown

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

Systems and methods of image enhancement comprising: obtaining image data; analyzing the image data and gathering relevant statistics thereon, at least within a first region of interest and a second region of interest; using the gathered statistics corresponding to the first region of interest, configuring a first contrast enhancement module to perform contrast enhancement of at least a first portion of the image data; using the gathered statistics corresponding to the second region of interest, configuring a second contrast enhancement module to perform contrast enhancement of at least a second portion of the image data; and combining the contrast-enhanced image data to form a complete image

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for image enhancement, the system comprising:

an image pipeline, the image pipeline comprising:
a focal plane array configured to gather image data;
a first contrast enhancement module configured to receive image data from the focal plane array and to perform contrast enhancement at least of image data corresponding to a first contrast-enhanced area of an image using a first contrast enhancement technique;
a second contrast enhancement module configured to receive image data from the focal plane array and to perform contrast enhancement at least of image data corresponding to a second contrast-enhanced area of an image using a second contrast enhancement technique;
at least one statistics module, the statistics module being configured to receive at least image data corresponding to a first region of interest and to use this data to set appropriate configuration parameters for use by the first contrast enhancement module in performing contrast enhancement using the first contrast enhancement technique and/or to receive image data corresponding to a second region of interest and to use this data to set appropriate configuration parameters for use by the second contrast enhancement module in performing contrast enhancement using the second contrast enhancement technique;
and
a selection module configured to combine the output of the first contrast enhancement module and second contrast enhancement module, creating a unitary image.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/102,872Filed 30 Jan 2023
Published: 1 Aug 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06T 5/92
Dynamic range modification of images or parts thereof: based on global image properties
G06T 5/94
Dynamic range modification of images or parts thereof: based on local image properties, e.g. for local contrast enhancement
G06T 2207/10048
Image acquisition modality: infrared image
G06T
Image data processing or generation, in general

Family

No related US applications are recorded in the indexed filing history.

Timeline

Citations

Open elsewhere

Building an agent or pulling many patents? Use the API or MCP server instead of scraping pages. Get an API key