Abstract: A high efficiency method of processing images to provide perceptual high-contrast output. Pixel intensities are calculated by a weighted combination of a fixed number of static bounding rectangle sizes. This is more performant than incrementally growing the bounding rectangle size and performing expensive analysis on resultant histograms. To mitigate image artifacts and noise, blurring and down-sampling are applied to the image prior to processing.

Abstract: A system and method of collecting and maintaining historical top communicator information on a communication device. The system and method is located on a communication device, which is attached to a network, and responds to internal an external data requests for host information. A top communication storage device and an RMON protocol storage device are inspected by top communicator logic for communicator information. Non-user excluded information is stored within the top communication storage device and updated periodically, along with an RMON database, according to a RMON alarm/user history poller and a user defined timer.