Method and system of immersive sensation enhancement for video sequence displaying
First Claim
1. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
- a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image;
a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the foreground image, among a plurality of characteristics;
a contrast threshold identification unit to identify a contrast threshold, based on the extracted characteristic of the foreground image; and
an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image, such that a contrast of the foreground image is enhanced using the identified contrast threshold and the extracted characteristic of the foreground image,wherein the contrast threshold varies differently with respect to each of the plurality of characteristics of the foreground image.
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Abstract
An immersive sensation enhancement method and system for video sequence displaying is provided. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system including: a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image; a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the foreground image; a contrast threshold identification unit to identify a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold.
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22 Claims
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1. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
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a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image; a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the foreground image, among a plurality of characteristics; a contrast threshold identification unit to identify a contrast threshold, based on the extracted characteristic of the foreground image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image, such that a contrast of the foreground image is enhanced using the identified contrast threshold and the extracted characteristic of the foreground image, wherein the contrast threshold varies differently with respect to each of the plurality of characteristics of the foreground image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
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5. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
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a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image; a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the foreground image; a contrast threshold identification unit to identify a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold, wherein the contrast threshold identification unit identifies the contrast threshold based on a position and an area of the foreground image from the characteristic of the foreground image, the position and the area affecting human retinal eccentricity and a reflected retina size.
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8. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
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a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image; a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the foreground image; a contrast threshold identification unit to identify a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold, wherein the immersive sensation enhancement processing unit comprises; a saturation enhancement scale identification unit to identify a saturation enhancement scale based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and a saturation enhancement unit to enhance an average saturation of the inputted foreground image based on the saturation enhancement scale. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
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a movement information identification unit to identify movement information of a foreground image between frames of an input image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image, such that a contrast of the foreground image is enhanced using an identified contrast threshold and the movement information, wherein the contrast threshold varies differently with respect to the movement information of the foreground image. - View Dependent Claims (13, 15)
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14. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system comprising:
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a movement information identification unit to identify movement information of a foreground image between frames of an input image; and an immersive sensation enhancement processing unit to process an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on the movement information, wherein the movement information includes information about a position and an area of the foreground image, and the immersive sensation enhancement processing unit comprises; a contrast threshold calculation unit to calculate a contrast threshold based on the position and the area; and a contrast enhancement unit to enhance a contrast to a lightness of the foreground image based on the position, the area, and the contrast threshold.
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16. An immersive sensation enhancement method, the method comprising:
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identifying, by a processor, a foreground image for each frame of an input image; extracting a characteristic of the foreground image, among a plurality of characteristics; identifying a contrast threshold based on the extracted characteristic of the foreground image; and processing an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image, such that a contrast of the foreground image is enhanced using the identified contrast threshold and the extracted characteristic of the foreground image, wherein the contrast threshold varies differently with respect to each of the plurality of characteristics of the foreground image. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 22)
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17. An immersive sensation enhancement method, the method comprising:
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identifying, by a processor, a foreground image for each frame of an input image; extracting a characteristic of the foreground image; identifying a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and processing an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold, wherein the extracting comprises; identifying a position of the foreground image in an entire area of the frame; identifying an area corresponding to the foreground image in the entire area; and calculating an average lightness and an average saturation of the foreground image.
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18. An immersive sensation enhancement method, the method comprising:
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identifying, by a processor, a foreground image for each frame of an input image; extracting a characteristic of the foreground image; identifying a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and processing an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold, wherein the identifying of the contrast threshold comprises identifying the contrast threshold based on a position and an area of the foreground image from the characteristic of the foreground image, the position and the area affecting human retinal eccentricity and a reflected retina size.
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21. An immersive sensation enhancement method, the method comprising:
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identifying, by a processor, a foreground image for each frame of an input image; extracting a characteristic of the foreground image; identifying a contrast threshold based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and processing an immersive sensation enhancement of the input image based on at least one of the characteristic of the foreground image and the contrast threshold, wherein the processing comprises; identifying a saturation enhancement scale based on the characteristic of the foreground image; and enhancing an average saturation of the inputted foreground image based on the saturation enhancement scale.
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