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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172196 | Supporting device for a mobile colorimeter A device for supporting a mobile calorimeter on a measuring object, especially a monitor, includes a flexible tube-shaped carrying belt (G) which is at least partially filled with a granular loading material and which is provided with a fixing member (1) for ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7884941 | Spectral measuring system A measuring system for photoelectrically scanning measurement points of a measurement object includes a lighting channel (21-24) for applying illuminating light to the measurement object (M) disposed in a measurement plane (MP) and a measuring channel ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7847264 | Method of measuring the colour of printed samples containing brighteners Methods for measuring the colour of printed samples by measuring a first spectral proportion of the total spectral reflection factor of a sample by illuminating the sample with light having no UV element are provided. The methods calculate a spectral correction fact... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7821639 | Color measuring head and scanner device equipped therewith A scanner device includes a color measuring, a support surface for a measured object and a drive unit for moving the measuring head across the support surface and for adjusting the height of the measuring head in a direction perpendicular to the support surface. The... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7782485 | Linearization and characterization process of an image producing device Exemplary methods are directed to the linearization and characterization of an image producing device. In the method, a color test chart of the device is reproduced and measured based on a small number of color measurement fields with defined device color values. As... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755773 | Scanner device A scanner device for measuring the color properties of a measured object pixel by pixel has a support surface for the measured object, a color measuring head, a drive unit for moving the color measuring head above the support surface in at least one dimension thereo... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7679785 | Method for correcting measured image values Image measurement values of a measurement object, in particular a printed sheet, measured by means of a photoelectric image measuring unit operating on the basis of pixels are corrected with respect to at least one influencing variable which influences the measureme... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7671992 | Measurement system and scanning device for the photoelectric measurement of a measurement object pixel by pixel The measuring device comprises a lighting system, a photoelectric receiver unit and optical means. The lighting system applies light to image elements disposed in strip-shaped lighting regions (15) at a standardized angle of incidence range. The photoelectric... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671991 | Handheld colour measurement device A handheld color measurement device includes a housing in which an optoelectronic measurement unit is located which receives measurement light originating from a measurement object, converts it into corresponding electrical measurement signals and processes these me... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7639901 | Apparatus and method for calibration of DLP/DMD projection image systems Display systems that utilize digital micro-mirror device (DMD) technology are finding wide application in the areas of projection systems for color display. The common name for such systems is digital light processing projection systems or DLP projection systems. Th... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633051 | Spectral photoelectric measurement transformer A spectral photoelectric measurement transformer comprises an array (10) of photoelectric transformer elements and dielectric interference bandpass filters (22a, 22b) disposed on a common filter support (21) connected upstre... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7538871 | Colour measurement device with associated measurement head A spectrophotometer for integration purposes includes a measurement head with an illumination arrangement (10) including at least one fight source (11) for the illumination of a measurement object located in a measurement plane (M) under an angle of in... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535569 | Optical measurement unit for a measurement device and a handheld photoelectric measurement device A handheld photoelectric measurement device includes a housing (G) which is provided with a measurement window (F). An illumination arrangement is positioned in the housing for impinging the measurement object through the measurement window with illumination light f... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7528955 | Colour measurement device and measurement process for the device A color measurement device includes a color measurement channel (20,30) and a control (C), which forms color measurement values from the measurement signals of the color measurement channel and from stored white calibration data. It further includes correctio... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7499163 | System and method for applying correction factors related to ambient conditions A method and system for effecting an appearance model correction for a display unit, e.g., a CRT, using a polynomial-based algorithm is described. The correction may be effected in real time and is based on gamma values associated with the display. Strong correlatio... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7466417 | Process for the colour measurement of printed samples including brighteners For the color measurement of samples printed on a substrate including a brightener, a raw spectral reflection factor of the sample is measured in a first measurement by illumination of the sample with light without UV portion. In a second measurement, a fluorescence... | 12/16/2008 |
