Patent ID: 11877088
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A system for a head-mounted display, comprising:
a see-through display;
one or more thermal cameras;
one or more low-level light cameras; and
a storage machine holding instructions executable by a logic machine to:
receive a linear, thermal image of an environment from the one or more thermal cameras;
receive a low-level light image of the environment from the one or more low-level light cameras;
generate one or more histograms of intensity values for a set of pixels within the linear, thermal image;
based on the one or more histograms of intensity values, apply local contrast enhancement to the linear, thermal image to generate a contrast enhanced version of the linear, thermal image;
in parallel to applying the local contrast enhancement to the linear, intensity-based image, based on the one or more histograms of intensity values, apply artificial colorization to the linear, thermal image to generate an artificially colorized version of the linear, thermal image; and
generate a composite image of the environment based on at least a portion of the contrast enhanced version of the linear, thermal image, at least a portion of the artificially colorized version of the linear, thermal image, and at least a portion of the low-level light image of the environment.