Patent ID: 8031945
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An image-processing device comprising: a pulverization-core unit configured to divide data on an input image into blocks, generate basic blocks by reducing each of the blocks in size, and arrange the basic blocks into their corresponding blocks so that data on a processed image including at least one noise particle of the input-image data is generated, where the noise particle included in the processed-image data is reduced in size; an edge-detection unit configured to detect an edge certainty degree from the input-image data; and an edge-blend unit configured to subject a pixel value of the input-image data and a pixel value of the processed-image data to a blend ratio and output data on an output image based on a result of the detection performed by the edge-detection unit so that a weight to the pixel value of the input-image data increases as the edge certainty degree increases.