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US 6,529,637 B1Granted
Spatial scan replication circuit
AssigneesPixel Instruments Corp., IP Innovation LLC
InventorCarl Cooper
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Abstract
In an image replication circuit, the improvement of replicating a given element at a certain location with the most similar of surrounding sets of image elements.
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An improved signal processing circuit for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said circuit comprising:
- neighboring element means to provide said at least partially surrounding image elements in respect to said particular position,
- inspection means to inspect a plurality of said at least partially surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- and replication means for selectively filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which void can include a location between at least partially surrounding image elements.
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An improved signal processing circuit for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said circuit comprising:
- neighboring element means to provide surrounding image elements in respect to a particular position,
- similarity means to determine the difference between image elements of a plurality of surrounding image elements to determine the similarity between such plurality of surrounding image elements,
- inspection means to inspect said plurality of the surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- ranking means for ranking said plurality of surrounding image elements by similarity,
- and replication means for selectively filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which said particular position can include a location between image elements.
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An improved signal processing circuit for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said circuit comprising:
- neighboring element means to provide surrounding image elements in respect to a particular position,
- similarity means to determine the difference between image elements of the surrounding image elements to determine the similarity of such surrounding image elements,
- inspection means to inspect said plurality of the surrounding image elements of the image to determine the the presence of a void at said particular position,
- dissimilarity means to discard/utilize sets of image elements not sufficiently similar,
- and replication means for filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which said particular position can include a location between at least partially surrounding image elements.
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An improved signal processing circuit for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said circuit comprising:
- neighboring element means to provide said surrounding image elements in respect to said particular position including at least two sets of surrounding image elements,
- similarity means to determine the difference between image elements within each said set of surrounding image elements to determine the similarity between said surrounding image elements therein respectively,
- inspection means to inspect said plurality of said surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- threshold dissimilarity means to block the ranking of dissimilar sets of image elements, ranking means for ranking each set of said surrounding image elements by similarity and,
- replication means responsive to said ranking means for filling in the void at said particular position with a value derived from at least one image element from the set of said at least two sets of surrounding image elements, which said particular position can include a location between said at least surround image elements.
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A method for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said method comprising:
- providing said at least partially surrounding image elements in respect to said particular position,
- inspecting a plurality of said at least partially surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- and selectively filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which void can include a location between at least partially surrounding image elements.
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An improved method for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements respectively,
- said method comprising:
- providing at least partially surrounding image elements in respect to a particular position,
- determining the difference between image elements of a plurality of said at least partially surrounding image elements to determine the similarity between such plurality of surrounding image elements,
- inspecting said plurality of the at least partially surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- ranking said plurality of at least partially surrounding image elements by similarity,
- and selectively filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which said particular position can include a location between image elements.
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An improved method for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements, respectively,
- said method comprising:
- providing at least partially surrounding image elements in respect to a particular position,
- determining the difference between image elements of the at least partially surrounding image elements to determine the similarity of such surrounding image elements,
- inspecting said plurality of the at least partially surrounding image elements of the image to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- discarding sets of image elements not sufficiently similar,
- and filling in the void at said particular position with a value which decreases the visibility of the void, which said particular position can include a location between at least partially surrounding image elements.
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An improved method for selectively filling a void located at a particular position having at least partially surrounding image elements,
- said method comprising:
- providing said at least partially surrounding image elements in respect to said particular position and including at least two sets of image elements from said at least partially surrounding image elements,
- determining the difference between image elements within each said set to determine the similarity between said at least partially surrounding image elements therein,
- inspecting a plurality of said at least partially surrounding image elements to determine the presence of a void at said particular position,
- blocking the ranking of dissimilar sets of image elements,
- ranking each said set of image elements by similarity and,
- filling in the void at said particular position with a value derived from at least one image element from at least one of said at least two sets of said at least partially surrounding image elements, which said particular position can include a location between said at least partially surrounding image elements.
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