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

Claim 0:
1. A method for enhancing digital imagery, comprising:
receiving a linear, intensity-based image of an environment;
generating one or more histograms of intensity values for a set of pixels within the linear, intensity-based image;
based on the one or more histograms of intensity values, applying local contrast enhancement to the linear, intensity-based image to generate a contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based 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, applying artificial colorization to the linear, intensity-based image to generate an artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image; and
generating a composite image of the environment based on at least a portion of the contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based image and at least a portion of the artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image.