Image enhancement of nano-dispersed N-(p-n-decyloxybenzylidene)-p-n-hexyloxy aniline using combined unsharp masking

The main objective of the image enhancement is to process an image with suitable technique to produce better visibility for a specific application. To identify key features like transition temperatures, clear phase identification in the liquid crystalline images, we require some novel image processing techniques. Characterisation and mesomorphic behaviour in pure and 1% ZnO nano-dispersed liquid crystalline N-(p-n-decyloxybenzylidene)-p-n-hexyloxy anilines, 10O.O6 compounds are carried out using a polarising microscope and images are preserved for enhancement. Both the compounds exhibits NACIG (nematic, smectic-A, smectic-C, smectic-I, smectic-G) phases and the transition temperatures of the 1% ZnO nano-dispersed 10O.O6 are reduced compared with pure 10O.O6. Further, in this paper, a novel image enhancement technique of combined unsharp masking is proposed on pure and 1% ZnO nano-dispersed 10O.O6 liquid crystalline compounds for better visibility of phases at transition temperatures. The proposed method is used to identify the uniform regions and to detect the defects which may not be clearly observed from the textures that are recorded by polarising microscope.