Patents by Inventor Young-Kyung Park

Young-Kyung Park has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • ILLUMINATION NORMALIZING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090003726
    Abstract: An illumination normalizing apparatus and a method are disclosed. The illumination normalizing apparatus measures a discontinuity of each pixel of an input image, the discontinuity including a spatial gradient and a local inhomogeneity, produces a weight of each pixel from the discontinuity by using a transfer function, produces an estimated illumination by repeating a convolution operation on each weight, and subtracts the estimated illumination from the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR CORPORATE COLLABORATION
    Inventors: Young-Kyung Park, Seok-Lai Park, Ji-Hyoung Son, Kwang-Hee Jung, Joong-Kyu Kim