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+## Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Kai Habel
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} imhist (@var{I},@var{n})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imhist (@var{I})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imhist (@var{X},@var{cmap})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{n,x}] = } imhist (...)
+## Shows the histogram of an image using hist.
+## @seealso{hist}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
+## July 2000 : Paul Kienzle code simplification for hist() call.
+
+function [varargout] = imhist (I, b)
+
+ if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
+ print_usage();
+ endif
+
+ b_is_colormap = 0;
+
+ if (nargin == 2)
+ if (ismatrix (b))
+ b_is_colormap = (columns (b) == 3);
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ if (b_is_colormap)
+ ## assuming I is an indexed image
+ ## b is colormap
+ max_idx = max (max (I));
+ bins = rows (b);
+ if (max_idx > bins)
+ warning ("largest index exceedes length of colormap");
+ endif
+ else
+ ## assuming I is an intensity image
+ ## b is number of bins
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ bins = 256;
+ else
+ bins = b;
+ endif
+
+ ## scale image to range [0,1]
+ I = mat2gray (I);
+ endif
+
+ if (nargout == 2)
+ [nn,xx] = hist (I(:), bins);
+ vr_val_cnt = 1; varargout{vr_val_cnt++} = nn;
+ varargout{vr_val_cnt++} = xx;
+ else
+ hist (I(:), bins);
+ endif
+
+endfunction