Abstract: An image-quality improvement method is provided. The image-quality improvement method includes detecting an area of interest from an input image; generating a color distribution map based on a plurality of respective brightness elements and a plurality of respective chroma elements of a plurality of pixels which belong to a predetermined color series and which are in the detected area of interest of the input image; determining a first area, which belongs to the predetermined color series, and a second area, which is an area of the input image other than the first area, according to the color distribution map; and changing values of a plurality of pixels in at least one of the first area and the second area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automated dialing method for mobile telephones. According to the method, a user enters a telephone number via the keypad of the mobile phone, followed by speaking a corresponding codeword into the handset. The voice signal is encoded using the CODEC and vocoder already on board the mobile phone. The speech is divided into frames and each frame analyzed to ascertain its primary spectral features. These features are stored in memory as associated with the numeric keypad sequence. In recognition mode, the user speaks the codeword into the handset, which is analyzed in a like fashion as in training mode. The primary spectral features are compared with those stored in memory. When a match is declared according to preset criteria, the telephone number is automatically dialed by the mobile phone. Time warping techniques may be applied in the analysis to reduce timing variations.