Steven C Crews

US Patent:

20060050983, Mar 9, 2006

Filed:

Sep 8, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/936373

Inventors:

Clark Bendall - Syracuse NY, US
Steven Crews - Newnan GA, US

Assignee:

Everest VIT, Inc. - Skaneateles Falls NY

International Classification:

G06K 9/40

US Classification:

382274000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for enhancing the contrast and visual clarity of an image captured by a remote viewing device. A luminance component of a captured image is isolated and represented within a first distribution of luminance values. One or more transformation functions are performed upon the first distribution of luminance values to generate a second distribution of luminance values. The second distribution of luminance values are used to construct and display a second image having enhanced visual clarity relative to the captured image. A portion of the captured image, such as a portion functioning as a magnified zoom window, can be enhanced for visual clarity independently from the remaining portion of the captured image.

US Patent:

20080158556, Jul 3, 2008

Filed:

Dec 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/617340

Inventors:

Clark A. Bendall - Syracuse NY, US
Steven Crews - Newnan GA, US

International Classification:

G01N 21/00

US Classification:

3562411

Abstract:

A method for obtaining the area of a missing portion of an object under inspection with a borescope includes aligning the borescope with the object under inspection, extrapolating the missing edges of the missing portion and calculating the missing portion area using the extrapolated missing edges and a defined remaining edge of the missing portion.