Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of performing robust auto white balance
- Patent Title (中): 执行强劲自动白平衡的方法
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Application No.: US11936235Application Date: 2007-11-07
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Publication No.: US07949185B2Publication Date: 2011-05-24
- Inventor: Seong Dae Kim , Su Jeong Kim , Jeong Woo Hwang
- Applicant: Seong Dae Kim , Su Jeong Kim , Jeong Woo Hwang
- Applicant Address: KR Deajeon
- Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: KR Deajeon
- Agency: Much Shelist
- Agent Adam K. Sacharoff
- Priority: KR10-2007-0102335 20071011
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; H04N9/73

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of performing robust white balance. The method includes a first process of dividing an input image into blocks, a second process of selecting blocks having higher color errors, and calculating average RGB values of the selected blocks, a third process of selecting a specific top percentage of bright blocks, and calculating the average RGB values of these selected blocks, a fourth process of calculating average RGB values through color clustering, a fifth process of converting the average RGB values into CIE xyY color space, a sixth process of calculating the Euclidean distances between the x and y values of standard light sources in a color space and the x and y values of the average RGB values in CIE xyY color space, and selecting an average RGB value having the shortest Euclidean distance (Ed), and a seventh process of calculating white balance gain values using the selected average RGB value, and correcting the input image using the balance gain values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090097745A1 METHOD OF PERFORMING ROBUST AUTO WHITE BALANCE Public/Granted day:2009-04-16
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