Patent ID: 8457393

Claim:
A method for processing a detected composite color image to form a processed composite color image, comprising: detecting the detected composite color image as a plurality of individual color images, each individual color image comprising detected color intensity values for one of a plurality of detected colors, for each of a plurality of pixels in the image; and, for each given pixel in the detected composite color image: identifying a window of pixels in the detected composite color image, that surrounds the given pixel; and, for a selected color of the plurality of individual color images, the other colors of the plurality of detected colors being nonselected colors: calculating a weight factor coefficient for each of the plurality of detected colors for the given pixel, from the detected color intensity values of the pixels that surround the given pixel, calculating raw color contributions corresponding to each of the nonselected colors, multiplying each of the detected color values of the selected color and the raw color contributions corresponding to the nonselected colors, with corresponding weight factor coefficients, to form weighted color contributions, and summing the weighted color contributions to form a processed color intensity value for the selected color for the given pixel; wherein the processed color intensity values for all of the plurality of detected colors, for all of the plurality of pixels in the image, form the processed composite color image.