Digital zoom camera with image sharpening and noise suppression

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 777-786

  Weerasinghe, Chaminda ^a   Nilsson, Magnus ^a   Lichman, Serge ^a   Kharitonenko, Igor ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL; NOISE ABATEMENT; POSITION CONTROL;

COLOR QUALITY; DIGITAL ZOOM CAMERA; IMAGE SHARPENING; MOTION BASED PAN TILT ZOOM; NOISE SUPPRESSION; VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEMS; ZOOM FUNCTIONALITY;

VIDEO CAMERAS;

EID: 6944224054     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2004.1341679     Document Type: Article

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