Video image quality
First Claim
1. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:
- converting a first pixel value from an image frame to a corresponding light intensity using a first contrast amount control variable value; and
reconverting the corresponding light intensity or a derivative thereof to a second pixel value for the image frame using a second contrast amount control variable value.
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Abstract
Video image quality may be improved by correcting exposure levels and/or enhancing contrast amounts on each frame. One or more of the following phases may be implemented: skin-color model building, face detecting, exposure level correcting, and contrast enhancing. In a described implementation, each pixel of an image frame is re-exposed using a ratio of contrast amount control variables (CACVs). More specifically, a pixel may be converted to a corresponding light intensity using a first CACV, and the corresponding light intensity may be reconverted to a pixel using a second CACV to enhance the contrast and possibly reduce fuzziness of the image frame. In another described implementation, a Gaussian skin-color model is built for each image frame during runtime. The Gaussian skin-color model is built with training pixels that are selected responsive to a defined skin color range, which is created offline from manually-selected skin pixels of multiple test sequences.
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39 Claims
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1. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:
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converting a first pixel value from an image frame to a corresponding light intensity using a first contrast amount control variable value; and reconverting the corresponding light intensity or a derivative thereof to a second pixel value for the image frame using a second contrast amount control variable value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A device comprising:
a contrast enhancer that is adapted to enhance a contrast of an image frame by re-exposing each pixel of the image frame using an exposure-density function and a ratio of contrast amount control variables. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An arrangement for video image processing in conjunction with contrast enhancement, the arrangement comprising:
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conversion means for converting a first pixel value of an image frame to a corresponding light intensity using a first contrast amount control variable value; and reconversion means for reconverting the corresponding light intensity or a derivative thereof to a second pixel value for the image frame using a second contrast amount control variable value. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:
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correcting an exposure level of an image frame; and enhancing a contrast amount of the image frame using a ratio of contrast amount control variable values and an exposure-density function. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method comprising:
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building a skin-color model using, selected training pixels; detecting a facial portion of an image frame using the skin-color model and a skin pixel probability threshold; correcting an exposure level of the image frame with regard to the detected facial portion; and enhancing a contrast amount of the image frame by re-exposing pixels of the image frame with a first contrast amount control variable value and a second contrast amount control variable value. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39)
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