Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Signal processor and signal processing method
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Application No.: US15711295Application Date: 2017-09-21
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Publication No.: US10430684B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Wakako Tanaka , Tomokazu Ishikawa , Yoshinori Mizoguchi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-194064 20160930
- Main IPC: G06K9/46
- IPC: G06K9/46 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/03 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T7/00 ; H04N1/50 ; H04N1/409 ; G06K9/62

Abstract:
A signal processing method includes addition of noise obtained by multiplying generated random number by K to the input pixel signal I(x), a binarization process of comparing the result of the addition with two thresholds, and a process of calculating a probability. The binarization process includes a first nonlinear process and a second nonlinear process. The first nonlinear process outputs “P” in a case where I(x) after the addition of the noise is greater than the threshold T1 and less than the second threshold T2. The second nonlinear determines “1” or “0” for a processing target pixel, in which the result of the first nonlinear process is “P,” based on input pixel signals of pixels around the processing target pixel. The process of calculating a probability calculates a probability J(x) that the result of the first nonlinear process is “1,” or the result of the first nonlinear process is “P” and the result of the second nonlinear process is “1”.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180096218A1 SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-04-05
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