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Image processing apparatus

  • US 10,303,916 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2016
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

  • an image capture sensor;

    a set of infra-red (IR) sources surrounding the image capture sensor; and

    a processor operatively coupled to said IR sources and said image capture sensor and configured to acquire from the sensor a succession of images, each image illuminated with a different combination of the IR sources such that each in a plurality of the images is captured with illumination from a different direction, the processor being further arranged to combine component images corresponding to the succession of images by selecting a median value for corresponding pixel locations of said component images as a pixel value for the combined image, where the processor arranged to perform 3D temporal median filtering in a cascaded fashion to obtain g sets of cascaded images which are passed through a median filter with g intermediate fused images generated and combined into said combined image.

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