NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE IMAGE FILTER ELIMINATING NOISE SUCH AS BLOCKING ARTIFACT OR THE LIKE

    公开(公告)号:JP2000032465A

    公开(公告)日:2000-01-28

    申请号:JP15208299

    申请日:1999-05-31

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent details of an image from being fogged by extracting a global metric from the image, estimating a local metric relating to a target pixel and its adjacent pixels, deciding a difference between gray levels and using a dual-ramp generator so as to smooth the gray level. SOLUTION: An image is stored in a line memory 102 for processing. The line memory 102 generates a processing window, in which the image is processed. The output of the line memory 102 is given to a global metric detector 104. The global metric detector 104 receives the image and uses a derivative for extracting image attributes such as amplitude, position of end points, and texture description for the analysis of the image. For example, a Sobel operator is used to conduct both the differential processing and smoothing. The smoothing compensates noise generated by extracting the derivative of pixels.

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