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| 20120130223 | ANNOTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF IMAGES Annotations of medical images may be generated using one or more lexicons so that terminology is consistent across multiple exams, users, facilities, etc. Measurements of lesions may be provided using a bilinear measurement tool that allows easier bilinear measurements.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120050310 | PRIVACY LEVEL INDICATOR A method includes responsive to receiving a command to view multimedia content, displaying the multimedia content. A selection of a privacy level for the multimedia content is received, the privacy level indicating whether information associated with a user's viewing of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120038662 | COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR OVERLYING INFORMATION BEARING HEXAGONS ON A MAP DISPLAY The disclosure relates to a computer implemented method and component defining a plurality of data structures, each data structure having a plurality of data elements. The method and component associate the plurality of data structures with a geographic area wherein eac... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032973 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM According to one aspect of the invention, an image processing apparatus includes: a lowpass filter generation unit configured to generate a lowpass filter corresponding to gonio-spectral reflection characteristics; a map generation unit configured to perform filter proc... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026186 | ASSIGNING A COLOR TO A GRAPHICAL ELEMENT IN A MES SYSTEM A method and a system assign a color to a graphical element displayed in a screen of a GUI application of a MES system. The graphical element represents manufacturing related information. The method includes providing a list of colors with a given number of colors; assi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019550 | Keying an Image in Three Dimensions Some embodiments provide a method for editing an image that includes several pixels having pixel values in a color space. The method identifies (i) a shape in a plane of two dimensions of the color space and (ii) a range in a third dimension of the color space over whic... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013637 | AUTOMATIC COLOR ADJUSTMENT OF A TEMPLATE DESIGN The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of s... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013630 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A SHOE FITTED TO A FOOT AND ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR A method for selecting a shoe fitted to a foot from a plurality of shoes. For each shoe from the plurality of shoes, a dimensionally accurate outline of the footbed of the shoe is provided in electronic form. Further, for each shoe from the plurality of shoes, a dimensi... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110285745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOUCH SCREEN ASSISTED WHITE BALANCE A method and apparatus for performing automatic white balance utilizing a touch screen. The method includes determining an area on a touch screen for performing automatic white balance, extracting portion of a frame relating to the determined area, determining red, gree... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285713 | Processing Color Sub-Pixels A method may include receiving data pixels of a color image and mapping the color image to display pixels of a display device. Data pixels may have first and second color components, each component having an associated color property. Display pixels may have two or more... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE REAL-TIME AND REALISTIC SIMULATION OF NATURAL ATMOSPHERIC LIGHTING PHENOMENON Systems and methods are provided for visually realistic simulation and real-time rendering of natural atmospheric lighting and related phenomena in an outdoor scene represented by an image provided by a simulation environment. The systems and methods of the present inve... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273468 | Color Management Method for Color Representation with Self-Luminous Color Primaries The present invention relates to a unique color management method for calibrating and characterizing a light mixing system comprising a set of primary light modules emitting self-luminous color primaries, which may be intimately mixed to produce a batch color that match... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110249019 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A projection system includes first and second cameras, a projector, and a processing unit. The first camera captures an object to obtain a first image of the object. The projector projects the first image to a projection region. The second camera captures the projection... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110234624 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS AND GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD There is provided a graph display apparatus including a list input unit configured to input list data including a plurality of numerical data items, a color designation unit configured to designate arbitrary colors for the numerical data items of the list data input by ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227910 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORKSTATION FOR SECURITY AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS A method of and a system for displaying volumetric data on a 2D or 3D display are provided. In particular, a method of highlighting objects using contours of selected objects on a 2D display and on a 3D stereoscopic display is provided. The contour highlighting method p... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110208389 | CUSTOMIZABLE GRAPHICAL DISPLAY Aspects of the disclosed subject matter are directed to customizing the colors of instruments that are used to convey vehicle readings. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that obtains input to perform a color change to one or more instruments presen... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110187737 | PROCESS OF INHERITING COLORS IN A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) APPLICATION FROM WINDOWS VISTA COLORS A method to adjust colors of CRM application's GUI skin, based on operating system's Color scheme Color code of the operating system's color scheme is fetched from registry entry of the operating system and is saved as base color This color code is converted from ARGB f... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110178852 | Advanced Voting System and Method An advanced voting system is provided that includes one or more computing devices. The computing devices receive input of authentication data and utilize the authentication data to determine whether a voting session by a voter is authorized and to unlock ballot informat... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110157215 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM AND IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD An image output method, which can be executed an information processing device, includes the steps of: storing in a storage medium layout definition information defining a layout of output information suitable to a display capability for each mobile information terminal... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110131497 | Image-Derived User Interface Enhancements A device configured to select a portion of an image, the selecting being based at least on parameters associated with a user interface element of the device, is disclosed herein. The device is further configured to apply the selected portion of the image to the user int... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115812 | METHOD FOR COLORIZATION OF POINT CLOUD DATA BASED ON RADIOMETRIC IMAGERY Systems and methods for improving visualization and interpretation of spatial data of a location are provided. In the method, a first radiometric image and three-dimensional (3-D) point cloud data registered (306) and the radiometric image is divided into a first... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110106365 | In-vehicle device for storing gadget An in-vehicle device includes: a memory for storing a gadget corresponding to an icon, a display content of which is changed with time, wherein the gadget provides a process; a display having a screen, on which the icon is displayed; an operation receiver for receiving ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110080423 | Temporal color liquid crystal display A temporal based system for reducing the color artifacts of a field sequential color based liquid crystal display.... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110069332 | COLOR SELECTING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM It is determined whether an entered designated color is a color within a gamut of a printing machine or not. If the designated color is judged as being not a color within the gamut, then the designated color is mapped to converted colors within the gamut according to a ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069083 | AUTOMATIC COLOR ADJUSTMENT OF A TEMPLATE DESIGN The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of s... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069081 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE-QUALITY AND DISPLAY UNIT ENABLING THE SAME A method of displaying images, which includes displaying a first image in a first display portion, receiving a first image-quality condition for setting a first image quality of the first image displayed in the first display portion, generating, via a first display cont... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069082 | IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image control apparatus including a color information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a memory, color information expressing a power saving color, a display image acquisition unit configured to acquire a display image displayed on a display device, a com... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110057948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT A method of aligning a first image captured by a first camera with at least a segment of an image captured with a second camera, the images captured by the first and second camera having an overlapping field of view, the method comprising:
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| 20110050694 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING HAIR IMAGE Provided are a system and method for rendering hair image which smoothly and vividly render a fiber type of long and slim object like hair when creating 3D content. The system includes a sampling point setting module, a transparency determination module and a color valu... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050720 | System and method for panning and selecting on large displays using mobile devices without client software System and method that utilizes light sources, for example projectors embedded in mobile camera phones, to allow users to interact with documents on large displays without requiring users to install any third-party software. With this approach, multiple users can select... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110025704 | Customizing Accessories A system and method for customizing accessories is provided. The accessories include a display for showing customized content. Users can display customized designs or promotional information on a free or fee basis. The system also allows users to use a detection device ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110012916 | System and method for component discrimination enhancement based on multispectral addition imaging A system and method for performing multispectral color addition imaging. An optical image is obtained for a sample scene comprising one or more target materials. Spectroscopic data is obtained for one or more target materials. A first and second waveband of interest are... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012917 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF IMAGES TO FACILITATE INFORMATION VISUALIZATION Approaches for generating a digital image that facilitates data analysis. An application may arrange values of one or more data sets into a table based on a selected set of columns. The application may apply one or more formulas to each cell to generate a second table t... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROCESSING IMAGES FOR IMPROVED DISPLAY Image processing may be performed to generate a color image for display on a color display screen and a monochrome image for display on a monochrome display screen, where an overlap of the images may produce a resultant color image at one or more depths. The one or more... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328341 | METHOD OF CREATING A GAMUT BOUNDARY DESCRIPTOR PRESERVING THE DISCONTINUITIES OF AN ACTUAL GAMUT SURFACE In order to preserve the discontinuities of an actual gamut surface and/or the discontinuities of its curvature, notably through a smoothing operation, in this method, when at least a vertex of any elementary polygon, the network of which represents an actual gamut boun... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100302273 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DISPLAY INPUT VALUES Systems and methods of providing user-selected color characteristics for an LCD device to a host system are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving user input at the LCD device, the user input specifying color information for each of a plurality of color prese... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295983 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD An image display device includes first and second image display units that display images, a video signal processing unit that executes a predetermined signal processing, a scanning direction instructing unit that instructs the second image display unit to execute a sca... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100274476 | NAVIGATION DEVICE A vehicle owner can express a display screen that displays a map in a color that matches an interior design. On a map view screen that displays a map for route guidance on a display screen, icons that indicate current navigation functions, and icons that indicate touch ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100265265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING ELECTRONIC IMAGES DEPENDING ON AN INPUT The invention relates to the automatic selecting of images, which are displayed on a screen, depending on an input. An embodiment of the invention provides a system (10) for automatically selecting electronic images depending on an input, comprising—input analy... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100253493 | RECOMMENDED FOLLOWING DISTANCE ON FULL-WINDSHIELD HEAD-UP DISPLAY A substantially transparent windscreen head up display includes one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting vision through the windscreen. A method to display a graphic upo... | 10/07/2010 |
