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Patent
H - Electricity
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N
350/1
H04N 17/00 (2006.01) H04N 1/40 (2006.01) H04N 1/48 (2006.01) H04N 9/73 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2019725
A system and method for calibrating signals provided by individual cells in a photodetector array scanned by light originating at a low-cost variable light source and reflected from a subject to be replicated in digital form by processing photodetector cell signals in a manner so that individual cell signals are corrected to compensate for fluctuations in source light. The system and method is particularly applicable to a color balanced photodetector array in which individual photodetectors are arranged in sets with each set having a variable number of rows oriented in a direction transverse to the direction of scan and columns parallel to the direction of scan. The invention is practiced by exposing the first few photodetectors in each row to the full spectrum of visible light reflected from a white reference patch. During processing, as the photodetector signals are sequentially transferred, to a processor, the signals provided by the cells exposed to the white reference are compared with a fixed value to obtain a calibration factor. As the signals develop by cells in the same set but as a result of exposure to light reflected from the subject image, those signals are multiplied by the calibration factor so that the process signals are corrected for variations in source light on a real time basis.
Polaroid Corporation
Smart & Biggar
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