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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184123 | Image display apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image display method The object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image display method that are able to display images without motion blur without increasing the transmitted amount of image signal. An image display a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179400 | Motion adaptive ambient lighting A method for controlling an ambient lighting element including receiving a content signal, analyzing the content signal to determine a motion vector of an object (120A) depicted in the content signal, presenting the content signal on a display device, and adj... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174536 | Color difference display control apparatus, color difference display control method, and control program This invention provides a display control apparatus and control method, which allow the operator to easily identify the correspondence between the patch icons and their color difference values. To accomplish this, the display control method of this invention include... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169447 | Automatic color display conversion A color computer output is dynamically converted into a monochrome computer output based on a stored profile. The stored profile may be for a piece of hardware (e.g., a monochrome printer), or a user (e.g., a color-blind user). ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154557 | Flat-panel display device According to an embodiment of the invention, even if a sample-and-hold circuit samples a signal from a signal processor to a display unit, an image quality reduction is hard to occur. According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a flat-panel displa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154558 | Conversion table creating device, storage medium storing conversion table creating program, and conversion table creating method A color data setting unit that sets a plurality of sets of fifth color data that are defined in a first color space in one to one correspondence with a plurality of fourth color data sets. An identifying unit identifies some of first reference points, that are in pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144163 | Driving device and driving method of the same A display device which includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and displaying images. Each pixel includes a data line, first and second gate lines, a first sub-pixel connected to the first gate line and the data line, and a second sub-pixel connected t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144164 | Image display apparatus and method A display image of a frame is input in time series. An inverse colored image to cancel the display image is generated. The display image is divided into a plurality of subfields, and the inverse colored image is also divided into a plurality of subfields. A time div... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139078 | Method and system for emulating a display In accordance with one embodiment, a method for emulating the color performance of a display system includes determining an expected first color gamut of the display system. Display data is converted into a format that emulates the first color gamut. The converted d... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139077 | Enhanced alpha blending A system including storage comprising a first graphical pixel and a second graphical pixel. Each of the first and second graphical pixels is associated with binary codes having red, green and blue sub-codes. The system also comprises processing logic coupled to the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125494 | Method for mapping optical properties for a display device Exemplary embodiments provide a method for characterizing the optical display properties of a display. ISO-Inversion and ISO-Contrast charts are generated to pinpoint limitations in the display and trouble shoot the same. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115776 | Mechanism to mitigate color breakup artifacts in field sequential color display systems A mechanism for mitigating undesired color image breakup artifacts arising in display systems that exploit the principle of field sequential color generation. By suitably reducing the time interval during which image information strikes the moving retina, such that ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111262 | Interferometric modulator displays with reduced color sensitivity Methods are described for selecting reflective layer distances in an interferometric modulator display that result in reduced color sensitivity to temperature and process variation. Colors are selected for interferometric modulator subpixels that correspond to a min... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111263 | Video display device and color temperature correction method for the same A video display device that allows the color temperature of the signals in white color attributes having high luminance and low chroma saturation to be corrected with high precision is provided with a color temperature correction method so as to visually obtain a de... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106919 | Method, system and software product for color image encoding The present invention relates to the compression of color image data. A combination of hard decision pixel mapping and soft decision pixel mapping is used to jointly address both quantization distortion and compression rate while maintaining low computational comple... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094165 | Color reproduction evaluation apparatus and program storage medium An evaluation apparatus includes an image reproduction section, which obtains a reproduction image by reproducing an original image with a plurality of color elements visually mixed for defining colors, and which obtains a plurality of reproduction images respective... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085276 | Combined color harmony generation and artwork recoloring mechanism Obtaining an original set of two or more original colors associated with an artwork is disclosed. An input set of one or more user selected colors is received. For each original color in the original set, a mapping from the original color to one of a plurality of de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077185 | Mechanism to mitigate color breakup artifacts in field sequential color display systems A system and method for displaying video images in response to each frame of field-sequential video signals. The system comprises a backlight comprising first, second and third primary color light sources. The backlight is operable to emit light for at most 5.67 mil... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077184 | Intelligent color remapping of video data The color remapping system places axes on the Cb-Cr color plane to differentiate and isolate colors of interest. Each axis has a programmable position, hue change value and saturation change value. Input pixels from the video data stream are calibrated with respect ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8063912 | Data-driven color coordinator A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059134 | Enabling color profiles with natural-language-based color editing information A method of retaining original natural language commands along with the mathematical LUT transform of the commands and a private tag within the same ICC profile. The private tag can be read only by an exclusive or proprietary application or color management module. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054316 | Picture processing using a hybrid system configuration A system and method for adjusting pictures minimizes the impact on graphics processing performance of a discrete processor. A hybrid system configuration includes the discrete processor and an integrated processor, where the discrete processor typically consumes mor... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049765 | Color gamut mapping and liquid crystal display device using the same A color gamut mapping method, which is capable of minimizing a color difference perceived by a person, preventing brightness and contrast from deteriorating, and improving color reproducibility, and a liquid crystal display device using the same are disclosed. The c... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049764 | Video signal processing device, video signal processing method, video signal processing program, integrated circuit, and video signal display device On the display screen of a video signal display device, when the emission amount is monotonically lowered toward the screen periphery from a certain point (screen center), if there are a plurality of regions that viewers notice easily (such as faces), then correctio... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049763 | RGB to RGBW color decomposition method and system A Red Green Blue-to-Red Green Blue White (RGB-to-RGBW) color decomposition method and system. The RGB-to-RGBW color decomposition method includes: determining an output value of white based on inputted RGB values and a saturation; and outputting the output value whe... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044967 | Converting a three-primary input color signal into an N-primary color drive signal A method of converting a three-primary input color signal (IS) comprising three input components (R, G, B) per input sample into an N-primary color drive signal (DS) comprising N≧4 drive components (D1, . . . , DN) per output sample for driving N sub-pixels... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035652 | Color signal generating circuit, method and color signal synthesizing circuit OSD data YD includes a color designating signal As and a color changing signal Ex. When a color register number is designated by the color designating signal As, a color storage unit 41 outputs an appropriate color signal. A Y signal is branched from the outp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035651 | Method of adjusting displaying state of display apparatus A method of adjusting a displaying state of a display apparatus includes determining a reference color temperature and a reference Δu′v′, determining setting color temperatures corresponding to gradations of a gray level according to the reference color tempera... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026926 | Image display device and image display method Provided is a structure in which an input image is normalized by a normalization value in a case where an amount of saturation is within an allowable range so as to adjust an intensity of a backlight according to the normalization value. Allowing slight saturation o... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026925 | Apparatus and method for displaying picture in portable terminal Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying a picture in a portable terminal. The method includes identifying a visibility color quality corresponding to the external brightness upon sensing of generation of a visibility control event, identifying external br... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022962 | Image processing program and image processing apparatus A game apparatus includes a computer, and the computer reads rendering data from a rendering buffer, and displays a virtual three-dimensional image by utilizing color data and a depth value for each pixel which are included in the rendering data. When a photographin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022963 | Method, system and software product for color image encoding The present invention relates to the compression of color image data. A combination of hard decision pixel mapping and soft decision pixel mapping is used to jointly address both quantization distortion and compression rate while maintaining low computational comple... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018468 | Image signal processor, image signal processing method for use in the same, and program Disclosed herein is an image signal processor for carrying out conversion into an xvYCC signal by using a photograph film as a material, the image signal processor including: acquisition means for acquiring print film concentration data based on said photograph film... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013864 | Method and system for visualizing multivariate statistics A method, apparatus and module for visualizing multivariate statistical measurements. A processing system receives multivariate statistical output data, such as scores or contributions from a multivariate statistical model and renders the multivariate statistical ou... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013866 | Image display system, image display apparatus, image providing apparatus and method thereof An image display apparatus disclosed in the present application is made up of an analytical precision calculating module, an image analyzing module, and an image providing module. The analytical precision calculating module calculates an analytical precision of an i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013865 | Program, information storage medium, image generation system, and image generation method for generating an image for overdriving the display device An image generation system including: a drawing section which draws an object to generate image data; and an overdrive effect processing section which performs overdrive effect processing for the generated image data and generates image data to be output to a displa... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009176 | System and method for processing graphics operations with graphics processing unit Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for ac... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009175 | Methods and apparatus for calibrating a color display Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004536 | Coherent image selection and modification An example method includes receiving a first selection location and at least one selection parameter with respect to digital data. A portion of the digital data is selected relative to the first selection location. The selecting of the portion includes assigning an ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004537 | Apparatus, method, and program product for color correction A color correction apparatus includes a correction unit to correct a color of an input pixel having a color included in a specified region of a color space, a correction range selector to select a range with a center in a grayscale to the specified region. With this... | 08/23/2011 |
