METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING FORMATTED INFORMATION RELATED TO DEFECTS OF APPLIANCES

• US 20120308160A1
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DXO Labs
• Original Assignee: DXO Labs
• Inventors: LIEGE, Bruno, Guichard, Frederic
• Application Number:
  US13/489,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20120308160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/10 Selection of transformation methods according to the characteristics of the input images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/70 Denoising; Smoothing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/73 Deblurring; Sharpening
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/80 Geometric correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00007 relating to particular apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00045 using a reference pattern designed for the purpose, e.g. a test chart
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00071 characterised by the action taken
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/40093 Modification of content of picture, e.g. retouching geometric modifications H04N1/387
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/58 Edge or detail enhancement; Noise or error suppression, e.g. colour misregistration correction H04N1/62 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for producing formatted information related to at least one defect of at least one device within an imaging appliance chain. A processor may retrieve at least one variable characteristic of the at least one device. The at least one variable characteristic of the at least one device may be configured with a first value representing at least one setting of the at least one device. A first formatted information representing the at least one defect of the at least one device may be produced. The first formatted information may be based upon measured results related to the configured at least one variable characteristic. A second formatted information related to at least one variable characteristic of the at least one device having a second value may be produced based upon the first formatted information.

Claims

1. A method for producing formatted information related to defects of appliances of at least two appliance chains, addressed to an image-processor for modifying quality of images processed by the image-processor, each appliance chain including at least one image-capture appliance, at least one image-restitution appliance, or a combination thereof, the method comprising:

producing data of the formatted information according to a standard format, characterizing the defects of the appliances of each appliance chain, and

storing the formatted information in a database, wherein

at least one image-capture appliance is provided with at least one variable characteristic depending on the image, fractions of the formatted information being related to the defects of the at least one image-capture appliance, each variable characteristic being configured to be associated with a value to form a combination including the set of the variable characteristics and of the values, the method further including

producing a first fraction of the formatted information for a predetermined selection of the combinations, the first fraction of the formatted information being entered in a field of the formatted information as measured formatted information, and

obtaining a second fraction of the formatted information related to an arbitrary combination from the measured formatted information, as extended formatted information, the formatted information including the extended formatted information in place of the measured formatted information.