Patent Document ID: 20070189748
Application ID: 11673560
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1 : A digital image processing device operable to blur an acquired image, comprising a controller and one or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied thereon, said processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method of creating blur in a digital image, the method comprising: (a) acquiring a first image of a scene taken at a first exposure level; (b) acquiring a second image of nominally the same scene taken at a second exposure level, wherein at least one region of said second image includes one or more pixels having saturated intensity values; (c) for at least one of said saturated pixels, extrapolating one or more values from said first image; (d) generating a third image comprising pixels of said second image having non-saturated values, and pixels having said one or more extrapolated values; (e) blurring at least a portion of the third image; and (f) re-scaling the blurred portion of the third image.