Louis Klein

US Patent:

62631012, Jul 17, 2001

Filed:

Oct 27, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/549251

Inventors:

Louis Klein - Laguna Niguel CA

Assignee:

Cerulean Colorization LLC - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G06K 900

US Classification:

382162

Abstract:

Picture filtering technology generates mathematical mathematical models to represent photographic filters for application to digitized frames of picture stock. A desired filter is determined, and reference pictures, one taken with the filter and one taken without the filter, are selected from a picture library. The selected pictures are digitized and stored. The digitized pictures respectively comprise corresponding sets of pixels or digital data units between which a quantitative differencing is performed. The quantitative difference may be based on any number of variables, such as luminance. When the difference in the luminance values of each corresponding pair of pixels is determined, a mathematical model which is representative of this difference is generated. The mathematical model is essentially a mathematical model of the desired filter, "filtering" digital data in a substantially similar manner in which photographic filters affect light. The mathematical model is then applied to the digitized frame which is to be filtered, thereby modifying the luminance values of the pixels to effect the desired filtering of the image.