Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Parallelization technique for gain map generation using overlapping sub-images
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Application No.: US16993663Application Date: 2020-08-14
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Publication No.: US11563899B2Publication Date: 2023-01-24
- Inventor: Matthew J. Penn
- Applicant: Raytheon Company
- Applicant Address: US MA Waltham
- Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Waltham
- Main IPC: H04N5/243
- IPC: H04N5/243 ; H04N5/225 ; G06T5/50

Abstract:
A method includes obtaining multiple spatially-displaced input images of a scene based on image data captured using multiple imaging sensors. The method also includes dividing each of the input images into multiple overlapping sub-images. The method further includes generating multiple overlapping sub-image gain maps based on the sub-images. In addition, the method includes combining the sub-image gain maps to produce a final gain map identifying relative gains of the imaging sensors. An adjacent and overlapping pair of sub-image gain maps are combined by renormalizing gain values in at least one of the pair of sub-image gain maps so that average gain values in overlapping regions of the pair of sub-image gain maps are equal or substantially equal.
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