Methods and apparatus for editing images

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8582910
APP PUB NO 20110085741A1
SERIAL NO

12896546

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Methods and apparatus for editing an image having focused and defocused objects are provided in the present application. According to an embodiment, the method comprises: determining blurriness of edge pixels in the image; propagating the determined blurriness to non-edge pixels adjacent to each of the edge pixels so as to determine blurriness of the non-edge pixels; estimating a focus map based on the blurriness of the edge pixels and the non-edge pixels to identify the defocused objects and the focused objects; and refocusing the defocused objects based on the focus map or defocusing at least one of the defocused objects and the focused objects.

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  • THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cham, Wai Kuen Hong Kong, CN 8 38
Zhang, Wei Hong Kong, CN 2311 17736

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