Apparatus and method of producing digital image with improved performance characteristic
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsDale F. McIntyre, John A. Weldy, Jennifer C. Loveridge
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Abstract
A digital image with improved performance characteristics is formed by producing a photographic image of a scene; producing a digitized electronic image of the same scene; scanning the photographic image to produce a digitized photographic image of a scene; and combining and processing the digitized electronic image and the digitized photographic image to produce another digitized image with improved performance characteristics.
Claims9
A method of producing a digital image with improved performance characteristics, comprising the steps of:
- a) capturing a photographic image of a scene;
- b) digitizing the captured photographic image to produce a digitized photographic image;
- c) simultaneously with capturing the photographic image, capturing a digitized electronic image of the scene;
- d) globally aligning the digitized electronic image and the digitized photographic image;
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- e) locally aligning the digitized electronic image and the digitized photographic image such that when there is any misalignment in any local area, measuring and correcting for each of these locally misaligned areas of the digitized electronic and photographic images and combining the appropriately corrected images to produce a combined digital image with improved performance characteristics.
A computer program product for producing a digital image with improved performance characteristics from a digitized photographic image of a scene and a digitized electronic image of the same scene and having a computer program stored thereon for performing the steps of:
- a) capturing a photographic image of a scene;
- b) digitizing the captured photographic image to produce a digitized photographic image;
- c) simultaneously with capturing the photographic image, capturing a digitized electronic image of the scene;
- d) globally aligning the digitized electronic image and the digitized photographic image;
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- e) locally aligning the digitized electronic image and the digitized photographic image such that when there is any misalignment in any local area, measuring and correcting for each of these locally misaligned areas of the digitized electronic and photographic images and combining the appropriately corrected images to produce a combined digital image with improved performance characteristics.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.