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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120293677 | Methods and apparatuses for anti-shading correction with extended color correlated temperature dependency In a method for correcting shading effects in an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, shading effects on at least one readout pixel of the image sensor are modeled based on a parametric component, and the shading effects on the at least one readout pixel are co... | 11/22/2012 |
| 20120294525 | METHODS FOR SUPPRESSING STRUCTURED NOISE IN A DIGITAL IMAGE A method for suppressing structured noise in a digital image includes creating a smoothed version of the original image. Monotonic and slowly-varying image regions are detected by analyzing a residual image which is the function of the original image and its smoothed ve... | 11/22/2012 |
| 20120294526 | METHODS FOR REDUCING ROW AND COLUMN PATTERNS IN A DIGITAL IMAGE A method for performing column/row pattern suppression in a digital input image includes creating a smoothed version of the input image by averaging a set of columns/rows neighboring around the column/row being corrected. A difference image is constructed by subtracting... | 11/22/2012 |
| 20120293530 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND AN IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE A method of processing image data comprises identifying picture elements of a first image portion having a first hue and a first saturation assigned to the first hue, the first hue lying in a first critical hue interval, identifying picture elements a second image porti... | 11/22/2012 |
| 20120288194 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise reduction without causing blurring of edges and details of the image. The image processing device: specifies, on a normal distribution representing a noise model of the image, a reference ran... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING COLOUR FROM AN IMAGE Embodiments of the invention relate to the determination of the colour of a colour sample from an image of the colour sample. In one embodiment a colour sample capture card is provided having printed thereon colour samples of known colour (for example, XYZ tri-stimulus ... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288197 | PICTURE QUALITY CONTROLLING DEVICE, PICTURE QUALITY CONTROLLING METHOD, AND PICTURE QUALITY CONTROLLING PROGRAM A picture quality controlling device (10) that controls a picture quality for an image signal which is input including: a histogram generation unit (14) generating a histogram for at least one of brightness, chromaticity, color, and frequency information p... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288196 | REMOVAL OF IMAGE ARTIFACTS FROM SENSOR DUST Removal of the effects of dust or other impurities on image data is described. In one example, a model of artifact formation from sensor dust is determined. From the model of artifact formation, contextual information in the image and a color consistency constraint may ... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120287286 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A mosaic image is input that is made up of a visible light component image in which mainly a visible light component has been captured and a non-visible light component image in which mainly a non-visible light component has been captured, and spectrally corrected image... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288193 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGE RESTORATION, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS The image processing method includes a filter preparation step of preparing an image restoration filter to be commonly used for plural optical apparatuses having mutually different optical characteristics, and a correction information preparation step of preparing corre... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120287145 | COLOR CORRECTOR, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COLOR CORRECTION METHOD Color correction according to the present disclosure performs correction by adding a predetermined correction value to an input value of a component to be corrected, which is one of a plurality of components for representing a color with a predetermined color space, and... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288192 | COLOR HIGHLIGHT RECONSTRUCTION Methods and apparatus may be applied to reconstruct pixel values in saturated regions of an image. Saturated regions are identified and hues for pixels in the saturated regions are estimated based on hues in boundaries of the saturated regions. Gradients for pixel value... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120281916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING HUE An apparatus and method for adjusting hue in an image processing device are provided. The method includes: setting a rotation angle of hue of each of regions of an image divided into a predetermined number about a central point; calculating coordinates of hue values Cr ... | 11/08/2012 |
| 20120281917 | ARCHITECTURE FOR EXPORTING DIGITAL IMAGES A method and apparatus for allowing applications to access edited image data from an image editing application are disclosed herein. When the user desires to export edited images, the user causes the image editing application to display a plug-in user interface (UI). Th... | 11/08/2012 |
| 20120275698 | Method of Orthoimage Color Correction Using Multiple Aerial Images A method for true-orthoimage color correction is provided. Aerial images and digital elevation models (DEMs) are used for balancing colors in orthoimages or true-orthoimages. Seam lines between images are also smoothed. Thus, color distinction between images is rectifie... | 11/01/2012 |
| 20120274958 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT METHOD, COLOR ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM A color adjustment method includes a color adjustment step to obtain an adjusted CMYK value from an output CMYK value using a color adjustment table. The color adjustment table is to convert the output CMYK value into the adjusted CMYK value and created based on first a... | 11/01/2012 |
| 20120269430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING COLOR INFORMATION WITH SPATIAL INFORMATION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES An image processing system combines higher-resolution panchromatic images and lower resolution multispectral images using a hyperspherical color space pan-sharpening technique. By converting the multispectral images into a hyperspherical color space, the intensities of ... | 10/25/2012 |
| 20120269431 | METHODS AND APPARTUSES FOR RESTORING COLOR AND ENHANCING ELECTRONIC IMAGES Methods and apparatuses for color image restoration and enhancement. In at least one embodiment, color signals for individual channels of an image (e.g., red, green, or blue) are adjusted based on a weighted set of averages (e.g., of the entire image, the center portion... | 10/25/2012 |
| 20120263379 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC COLOR CORRECTION Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for dynamic color correction of an imaged object. According to one embodiment, an image containing an object and color chart is received. The color chart includes a range of color values, while at least o... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120262473 | IMAGE COMPENSATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF An image compensating apparatus includes an input unit to receive input of an photo image, a Gaussian filtering unit to perform Gaussian filtering on the photo image, a division-map generating unit to convert the photo image on which the Gaussian filtering is performed ... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120257827 | METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD A method of processing data includes correcting received color data and generating corrected color data, generating color glitch correction data corresponding to the corrected color data using a glitch correction value preset based on the received color data, and conver... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120257828 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE An image processing circuit includes: a correction amount calculation section which calculates a correction amount from area-by-area correction amounts set respectively for two, corresponding to the hue of input image data, out of a plurality of areas into which the hue... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120257825 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING A DEFECT PIXEL A method for correcting a defect pixel includes extracting a pixel value of a central pixel, and pixel values of each of a plurality of neighboring pixels around the central pixel in an image sensor by using a color filter; calculating reference levels by multiplying ea... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120257826 | COLOR CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A color conversion method includes determining a race by recognizing a skin region in an input image, selecting a preferred skin color to apply to the skin region based on a plurality of preferred skin color information preset per race, and correcting a color of the ski... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120257265 | One-pass filtering and infrared-visible light decorrelation to reduce noise and distortions A scanning device includes a scanning mechanism and a processing mechanism. The scanning mechanism scans an image fixed on a medium to generate a digital infrared representation of the image and a digital visible light representation of the image. The processing mechani... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120250994 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM Disclosed is an image processing device which is provided with a determination section which determines texture direction in a vicinity region based on the vicinity region which includes a target pixel in the image and a detection section which detects whether or not th... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120250995 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present technology relates to an image processing device including: a reducing section configured to generate a plurality of reduced images by reducing an input image at a plurality of reduction ratios; a noise removal processing section configured to generate noise... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120250996 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes an emphasis map creation module configured to create an emphasis map indicating an emphasis region of image data and an emphasis level of the emphasis region, and an image processor configured to perform a first conversion of a ton... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120250993 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing device includes an image estimation unit that estimates an image prior to the jaggedness occurrence from a jaggedness-occurring image and generates an estimated image prior to the jaggedness occurrence, and a weighting/adding unit that selects a jagg... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120250997 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, includes a receiver configured to receive original image data uploaded from the terminal, an image processor configured to change a tone of the original image data, a transmitter which transmits ... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120250992 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes: a holding section holding a pixel value input thereto; a basic pixel value calculating section calculating a basic pixel value from the pixel values of a plurality of pixels which are neighboring pixels located around a pixel of i... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120242675 | Red-Eye Removal Using Multiple Recognition Channels This disclosure pertains to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for red-eye removal techniques using multiple recognition channels. In the following examples, red, golden, and white recognition channels are used. A recognition channel is the monochrome ext... | 09/27/2012 |
| 20120243783 | Red-Eye Removal Using Multiple Recognition Channels This disclosure pertains to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for red-eye removal techniques using multiple recognition channels. In the following examples, red, golden, and white recognition channels are used. A recognition channel is the monochrome ext... | 09/27/2012 |
| 20120237124 | IMAGE CHROMA NOISE REDUCTION IN THE BAYER DOMAIN An embodiment relates to a method and an image processor for reducing chroma noise in digital-image data. An embodiment performs noise reduction in the color-filter-array domain prior to demosaicing in order to prevent spreading of noise in subsequent stages of the imag... | 09/20/2012 |
| 20120230584 | COLOR PROCESSING DEVICE, COLOR PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A color processing device includes a converter that converts a combination of values of N−1 colors obtained by eliminating a specific color included in N colors from an input color signal expressing a color by a combination of values of the N colors, into a correspond... | 09/13/2012 |
| 20120229650 | Method And Apparatus For Image Production An improved lighting technique via a lighting technique utilizing a light source invisible to the subject is provided herein. The improved lighting technique capability blends image data from an image detector sensitive to visible light with corresponding image data fro... | 09/13/2012 |
| 20120230585 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING NOISE IN AN IMAGE A method for filtering noise in an image filters noise pixels in a discrepant block between a current image and a background image firstly, and further filter each small block whose area is less than a preset value from the discrepant block. The method further calculate... | 09/13/2012 |
| 20120219217 | 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... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120212477 | Fast Haze Removal and Three Dimensional Depth Calculation A computer-implemented method of processing digital input image data containing haze and having a plurality of color channels including at least a blue channel, to generate output image data having reduced haze, includes receiving in a first computer-implemented process... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120212643 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND CAMERA MODULE According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a pixel interpolation unit. The pixel interpolation unit includes a calculating unit that adds, to a first frequency band component, a second frequency band component in a direction in which the amount ... | 08/23/2012 |
