Method and apparatus for bilateral high pass filter

In a device, a method for receiving an image, the method comprising:

• receiving the image that comprises at least one filtered pixel,
• wherein the at least one filtered pixel is provided by applying a bilateral high pass filtering kernel to a target pixel and surrounding pixels corresponding to the target pixel, the bilateral high pass filtering kernel being based on a high pass photometric filtering kernel in which high pass filtering kernel values are determined based on Euclidean distances between the target pixel and at least some of the surrounding pixels.

In a device, a method for transmitting an image, the method comprising:

• transmitting the image that comprises at least one filtered pixel,
• wherein the at least one filtered pixel is provided by applying a bilateral high pass filtering kernel to a target pixel and surrounding pixels corresponding to the target pixel, the bilateral high pass filtering kernel being based on a high pass photometric filtering kernel in which high pass filtering kernel values are determined based on Euclidean distances between the target pixel and at least some of the surrounding pixels.

A device capable of filtering an image, the device comprising:

• a storage component operative to store a digital representation of the image, the digital representation further comprising a plurality of pixels;
• and
• a circuit, in communication with the storage component, operative to receive at least some of the plurality of pixels including a target pixel and surrounding pixels corresponding to the target pixel, the circuit being further operative to determine a bilateral high pass filtering kernel based at least in part upon on a high pass photometric filtering kernel in which high pass filtering kernel values are determined based on Euclidean distances between the target pixel and at least some of the surrounding pixels and to apply the bilateral high pass filtering kernel to the target pixel and surrounding pixels to provide a filtered pixel.