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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7672528 | Method of processing an image to form an image pyramid A method of processing an image to form an image pyramid having multiple image levels includes receiving a base level image comprising pixel values at pixel locations arranged in rows and columns; determining sample locations for a next level image in the pyramid su... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7593135 | Digital image multitoning method A method for multitone processing an N level digital image to produce an M level digital image wherein M | 09/22/2009 |
| 7492395 | Method of providing photofinishing services using recycled digital camera memory devices A method of supplying photofinishing services includes the steps of supplying a memory device for a digital camera to a photographer; the photographer taking and storing a plurality of digital images on the memory device; the photographer delivering the memory devic... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7230594 | Color OLED display with improved power efficiency An OLED display device includes an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having three or more OLEDs for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional OLED for emitting a color of light within the gamut, wherein the power effi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228004 | Method for sharpening a digital image A method of sharpening a digital image having image pixels values includes the steps of: determining a Dmin value, representing a value corresponding to a minimum possible exposure for a system that produced the digital image; for each pixel value in the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215828 | Method and system for determining image orientation A method for determining the orientation of a digital image, includes the steps of: employing a semantic object detection method to detect the presence and orientation of a semantic object; employing a scene layout detection method to detect the orientation of a sce... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7184067 | Color OLED display system An OLED display system includes a display device having an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having a plurality of OLEDs for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional OLED for emitting a color of light within the gamu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164417 | Dynamic controller for active-matrix displays A dynamic controller for a light emitting active-matrix display, the display being responsive to code values for producing a light output, including: photosensor located on the display for sensing the light output from the display and generating a feedback signal re... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161566 | OLED display with aging compensation An OLED display includes a plurality of light emitting elements divided into two or more groups, the light emitting elements having an output that changes with time or use; a current measuring device for sensing the total current used by the display to produce a cur... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162102 | Method and system for compositing images to produce a cropped image A method for producing a cropped digital image, includes the steps of: providing a plurality of partially overlapping source digital images; providing a cropping aspect ratio L:H, the cropping aspect ratio being the ratio of the length to the height of the cropped d... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7153180 | Continuous manufacture of flat panel light emitting devices A method of applying patterned materials for manufacture of a flat panel light source includes providing a flexible continuous substrate; providing one or more application stations, each application station having, one or more stationary sources of material, a suppl... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151524 | Electronic communication, and user interface kit An electronic communications and user interface kit, including a display device; a plurality of separate electronic devices capable of directly utilizing the display device; and a portable container with an interconnection system integrated into the container and co... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149393 | Apparatus and method for forming a fiber optic faceplate An apparatus and method for forming a fiber optic faceplate by winding an optical fiber strand about a mandrel that is outfitted with pairs of input and output spacing guides for providing proper fiber-to-fiber spacing. Spacing is maintained using input and output e... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133032 | OLED display and touch screen An OLED display and touch screen system includes a substrate; an OLED display including an array of individually addressable OLEDs formed on the substrate; and a touch screen including an OLED laser light emitter formed on the substrate, a light sensor formed on the... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7114660 | Non-image pixel data stored on hard-copy image media An image bearing article includes a support; a visible image recorded on the support; invisible information recorded on the support, the invisible information relating to and in registration with elements of the visible image. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111939 | Image display system with body position compensation An image display system includes: an image projector including a mirror optical element for forming an exit pupil for viewing an image at a viewing location; a viewer eye position detector for generating a signal representing the position of a viewer's eyes relative... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110575 | Method for locating faces in digital color images A digital image processing method for locating faces in a digital color image includes the steps of: generating a mean grid pattern element (MGPe) image from a plurality of sample face images; generating an integral image from the digital color image; and locating f... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106307 | Touch screen for use with an OLED display A touch screen for use with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, includes: a substrate having a top side and a bottom side; a plurality of touch screen elements located on the top side of substrate; and a polarizing element for reducing glare and improvin... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102632 | Method for saving power in an organic electroluminescent display A method of saving power in a color organic electroluminescent display of the type having color emitting elements with different light emitting efficiencies, includes the steps of: determining the color of the elements having the highest efficiency; converting a col... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092573 | Method and system for selectively applying enhancement to an image A method for processing a digital color image includes the steps of: providing a subject matter detector for distinguishing between target and background subject matters; applying the subject matter detector to the image to produce a belief map indicating the degree... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091941 | Color OLED display with improved power efficiency A color OLED display includes an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having three light emitting elements for emitting red, green, and blue colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional element for emitting a color of light within the gamut a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7081888 | Flexible resistive touch screen A flexible, resistive touch screen includes a transparent, flexible substrate; a first conductive layer located on the flexible substrate; a flexible transparent cover sheet having integral compressible spacer dots; and a second conductive layer located on the flexi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7068396 | Method and apparatus for performing tone scale modifications on a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range digital image A method of generating a tone scale function for a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range digital image, includes the steps of: providing a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device having fast photosites with a predetermined response to light ex... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064748 | Resistive touch screen with variable resistivity layer A resistive touch screen includes a transparent substrate defining a touch area; a first layer of conductive material formed on the transparent substrate and extending over the touch area; an electrical connection to the first layer of conductive material; a transpa... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064869 | Method for halftoning a multi-channel digital color image having at least one group of similar color channels A method for halftoning a multi-channel digital color image having an x,y array of color pixel values, wherein at least two color channels are similar having substantially the same color but with low- and high-densities, includes the steps of: providing a matrix of ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065255 | Method and apparatus for enhancing digital images utilizing non-image data A method and apparatus for enhancing a digital image captured by a digital camera: provides one or more data selected from the group consisting of camera model type, image sensor type, type of light source, type of image compression, previous noise reduction process... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062085 | Method for detecting subject matter regions in images Disclosed is a method for detecting subject matter regions in a digital color image having pixels of (red, green, blue) values, comprising the steps of: assigning to each pixel a belief value as belonging to the subject matter region based on color and texture featu... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062108 | Method for estimating the appearance of noise in images A method for estimating the noise appearance in an image, includes the steps of: forming a noise table representing noise magnitude vs. intensity of the image; and generating a noise metric from the noise table, said noise metric representing the noise appearance in... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7042444 | OLED display and touch screen An OLED display and touch screen system including a substrate; an OLED display including an array of individually addressable OLEDs formed on the substrate; and a touch screen including an OLED light emitter formed on the substrate and a light sensor formed on the s... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038373 | Organic light emitting diode display An OLED display having an ambient contrast ratio greater than ten at an ambient illumination greater than 6,000 lux at an average power of 100 milliwatts per centimeter squared. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7026597 | OLED display with integrated elongated photosensor An OLED display with a photosensor includes a substrate; a display area comprising an array of addressable OLEDs formed on the substrate; and an elongated photosensor formed on the substrate and located along an edge of the display area and responsive to ambient ill... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012588 | Method for saving power in an organic electroluminescent display using white light emitting elements A method of saving power in a color organic electroluminescent display of the type having color emitting elements with different light emitting efficiencies, includes the steps of: providing a organic electroluminescent color display having colored light emitting el... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009524 | Shelf talker having short and long term information A shelf talker for displaying short and longer term information includes a backplane including a plurality of electrical conductors; a plurality of single character display chips mounted on the backplane in electrical contact with the electrical conductors for displ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006252 | Image processing system and method that maintains black level A method for processing a photographic image captured by an image capture system, includes the steps of: determining a maximum dark value for the image capture system representing the response of the system to no light exposure; generating an image processing path f... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002593 | Method for reducing the power used by emissive display devices A method for reducing the power used by a display device having light emitting pixels, includes the steps of: receiving formatted information for presentation on the display device; modifying the format of the formatted information to reduce the number and/or intens... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999045 | Electronic system for tiled displays A tiled display includes a display controller for receiving image data from an image data source and formatting the image data for display, a plurality of display tiles having an array of display pixels, a tile controller, a clock, a memory and a communication inter... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993196 | Digital image storage method A method of storing a digital image file, includes the steps of: storing a header defined by a standard; storing image data encoded according to the standard after the header; and storing an image tail containing non-standard meta-data at the end of the image data. | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987355 | Stacked OLED display having improved efficiency An OLED device, having a pixel includes a plurality of individually addressable first white light emitting elements; a corresponding plurality of color filters located over the first white light emitting elements to filter the light emitted by the first white light ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980333 | Personalized motion imaging system A personalized motion imaging system, including: a computer; a motion image display device connected to the computer for displaying a motion image sequence to a viewer; a camera connected to the computer for capturing an image of the viewer; and an image processing ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975008 | Circuit for detecting ambient light on a display A circuit for detecting ambient light on a display includes a light integrating photosensor circuit having a photosensor and being responsive to ambient light for periodically producing successive photo signals representing the intensity of the ambient light; and an... | 12/13/2005 |
