Novel color processing architecture for digital cameras with CMOS image sensors

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1092-1098

  Weerasinghe, Chaminda ^a   Li, Wanqing ^b   Kharitonenko, Igor ^b   Nilsson, Magnus ^b   Twelves, Sue ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UOW ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Color correction; Color interpolation; Color processing architecture; Pixel cross talk

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COLOR MOTION PICTURES; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COLOR VISION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; PIXELS;

COLOR CORRECTION; COLOR FILTER ARRAY (CFA); COLOR INTERPOLATION; COLOR PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; MCBETH COLOR CHART; PIXEL CROSS TALK;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33846898420     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2005.1561829     Document Type: Article

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