Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute  
      Ingo Feldmann
      Image Processing Department
      Patents  
         
      Echtzeitfähiges Erkennungs- und Kompensationsverfahren von Beleuchtungsschwankungen in digitalen Farbbildsignalen  
           
      Patent Issue: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt  
      Issue Number: 102 04 500.3, AT03.02.2002  
      Date: February 2002  
           
      This patent issue introduces a fast detection and compensation algorithm for local and global illumination changes such as shadows. The algorithm operates in the YUV color space straight away while still having similar properties as much more time consuming algorithms operating in more sophisticated colorspaces such as HSV color space. In this way time consuming color space transformations can be avoided. A possible application is the real-time shadow detection and compensation in virtual video conference systems.  
         
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