Patent ID: 9215384
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of processing an infrared image, the method comprising: capturing the infrared image; processing the infrared image to provide a background portion of the infrared image and a detail portion of the infrared image; scaling the background portion and/or the detail portion to provide a level of the detail portion relative to a level of the background portion; receiving a user operated control signal value from a user controlling two variables with a single control, wherein the processing and the scaling use filtering and gain values, respectively, corresponding to the control signal value; merging the background portion and the detail portion after the scaling to provide a processed infrared image, wherein the merging of the background and the detail portion is controlled by the two variables, wherein a first variable of the two variables represents a standard deviation of the radiometric Gaussian, and wherein a second variable of the two variables represents a ratio between a dynamic range of the detail portion and a dynamic range of the background portion; and storing or displaying the processed infrared image.