Texture Information Provider for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-resolution display devices often struggle to render detailed texture components of low-resolution image content, leading to a blurred experience for users, as the development of image content lags behind the advancement of display technology.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that includes a texture information provider to enhance the texture component of an input frame by extracting and processing high-frequency components using filtering units and a frame synthesizer to combine texture information from a base frame and a reference frame, ensuring enhanced clarity and detail in the output frame.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If low resolution image content is transformed to high resolution image, then the image resolution is improved, but the texture component becomes blurred
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing apparatus segments the image into different frequency components (low-frequency luminance information and high-frequency texture information) and processes them separately. This allows independent optimization of resolution enhancement while preserving texture details through selective filtering and synthesis operations on different frequency bands.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the problem from spatial domain to frequency domain by applying filters to separate luminance and texture components. This dimensional transformation enables independent handling of resolution enhancement (affecting luminance) and texture preservation (affecting high-frequency components), resolving the contradiction between sharpness and detail.
2Manufacturing precision
If display device resolution is increased, then the display quality is improved, but the image content detail becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing apparatus performs preliminary processing on the image content before it reaches the display device. By pre-enhancing texture components and separating frequency bands, the system prepares the image data in advance to compensate for the display device's high resolution, ensuring that detailed information is preserved and enhanced before presentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an image processing apparatus as an intermediary between the image content source and the high-resolution display device. This intermediary performs frequency separation and selective enhancement, acting as a mediator that adapts lower-resolution content to high-resolution displays while preserving texture details that would otherwise be lost.
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AI summary
Provided is an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may synthesize an input frame with texture information of another frame and provide an output frame with an enhanced texture component.