Patent Document ID: 20060115149
Application ID: 10983704
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for finding and correcting single-pixel noise defects in a two-dimensional camera pixel field through assigning to such pixel defect an interpolation multi-pixel environment of the same color as the pixel to be corrected for therefrom deriving an interpolated substitute pixel value, said method being characterized by the following steps: assigning a multi pixel checking environment of the same color to a possibly defect pixel and checking said possibly defect pixel to said checking environment for therefrom finding a correct or an incorrect pixel ( 44 ) assigning to an incorrect pixel a plurality of predictive multi-pixel environments each oriented in a respective different orientation with respect to said incorrect pixel for therefrom deriving respective viability characterizations for interpolation in the associated orientation ( 46 ) finding the highest viability characterization and thereby selecting an appropriate multi-pixel interpolation environment of said same color for actually interpolating a substitute pixel value ( 48 ).