Patent ID: 7317844
Filing Date: 2008-01-08
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for tonally balancing an image mosaic, comprising: supplying the image mosaic, the image mosaic having multiple overlap regions; identifying in the overlap regions a set of corresponding points, the corresponding points corresponding to a single location and being indicative of a tonal variation; establishing a tonal variation threshold; eliminating from the overlap regions a subset of corresponding points, the subset having tonal variation deviating from the tonal variation threshold; repeating the eliminating until substantially all subsets have been eliminated, producing adjusted overlap regions comprising a set of remaining corresponding points; obtaining gains and biases for each spectral band in the adjusted overlap regions; applying the gains and biases to transform intensities of the set of remaining corresponding points producing transformed corresponding points; and producing a tonally balanced image mosaic using the transformed corresponding points.