I did not exactly understand what the "bitwise_and" operator does when used in openCV. I would also like to know about it's parameters.
Calculates the per-element bit-wise conjunction of two arrays or an array and a scalar.
Parameters:
Here is an example found on the web: http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/d0/d86/tutorial_py_image_arithmetics.html
THis is the documentation of the function.