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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7259773 | Display device with improved representation of the shades of grey The invention relates to a display device for rendering gray tone images on a monitor (31) controlled by s electron rays, wherein a correction unit (33) is provided for generating s output image signals As, which comprise gray tone values fo... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259768 | Methods and apparatus for converting color values Color conversion apparatus and methods are provided for converting a first color value, such as an RGB, L*a*b* or XYZ color value, to a second color value, such as an RGB, CMY, CMKY, L*a*b*, L, C1C2, or XYZ color value, without saturation error... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259769 | Dynamic backlight and image adjustment using gamma correction Methods and apparatuses for the application of image intensity and luminance adjustment and gamma adjustment for the purpose of compensating perceived image brightness, and thus enhancing the range of display backlight brightness adjustment that may be applied to co... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257509 | Measuring device with functional units controllable via a block diagram A measuring device, in particular a signal generator, comprises several functional units which may be connected to each other in various combinations, a control device which determines the connection and functions of the functional unites, and optical display device... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256780 | Visualization of volume-rendered data with occluding contour multi-planar-reformats An apparatus and method for visualizing volume rendered images relative to a viewing vector are provided, where the apparatus includes a processor, a detection unit in signal communication with the processor for detecting occluding contours of opacified structures i... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256796 | Per-fragment control for writing an output buffer A fragment program may configure a fragment shader to compute a destination position for a fragment, where the destination position is independent of a position computed for the fragment during rasterization of a primitive. The destination position may be computed b... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256785 | Assigning subpath attributes in a drawing Techniques for assigning a subpath attribute to a subpath in a drawing are disclosed. One technique includes editing the drawing to define a current path having a current subpath, matching a previous vertex in a previous path with a current vertex in the current pat... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256754 | Color display device and color display method The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to gene... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256552 | LED control circuit An LED control circuit for controlling a plurality of LEDs with different emission colors comprises a counter which increments or decrements a count value at a predetermined clock in response to a count start signal externally supplied, a signal conversion circuit w... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256793 | System and method for color management of multiple color devices and color spaces A color management user interface controller is provided for use in a color management system for assisting users to manage color settings of multiple colour entities, such as color devices and color spaces. The user interface controller has a representation control... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253819 | Apparatus and method for representing visual information for embedded handheld devices Displays on embedded devices, such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, and game machines, typically have low color-depth resolution displays. The conversion of color image from high color-depth resolution formats, such as 24-bit per pixel color, to lower co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253820 | Method and system for dynamically allocating a frame buffer for efficient anti-aliasing A polygon rendering system for receiving geometric data defining a polygon in an image being generated. The polygon rendering system renders the geometric data as pixel data. The pixel data defines pixels used to display the image. The system comprises a first memor... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250954 | Three-dimensional image rendering devices and methods A three-dimensional rendering device may project an image on a movable display through a collimating device, which collimates the rays from the display into a narrow solid angle. The narrow solid angle may allow the rays from the display to be projected only to a vi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251054 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for image processing The color and tone of an image of an object are changed to a color and tone desired by a user. Image data including an image of an object is input to image processing means and displayed on a monitor. The user observes the image displayed on the monitor and selects ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248347 | Focus processing with the distance of different target wheels An apparatus and method for automatically focusing a miniature digital camera module (MUT) is described. A MUT is loaded onto a test fixture and aligned with an optics system of a test handler. Focus targets contained within two target wheels are positioned over an ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248733 | Color-image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium Conventionally, a color-image processing apparatus, such as a computer, or the like, cannot determine whether or not color-image data stored in an image storage device, such as a hard disk, or the like, is an image corresponding to a specific original. According to ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248271 | Sub-pixel rendering system and method for improved display viewing angles System and methods are disclosed for improving the off-normal axis viewing angle by applying different filters if one colored sub-pixel data is driven close to 100% luminance while other colored sub-pixel data is driven close to 50% luminance values. Systems and met... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248314 | Liquid crystal display with the red, green, blue, and yellow sub-pixels surrounding the white sub-pixel A LCD device includes a first substrate including a plurality of pixels each having a white (W) sub-pixel and red (R), green (G), blue (B) and yellow (Y) sub-pixels surrounding the W sub-pixel; thin film transistors each connected to gate and data lines over the fir... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248750 | Object information processing apparatus, image processing system, game apparatus and image processing method An object information processing apparatus is provided for obtaining object information from input image data comprising pixels. The object information processing apparatus comprises an object determination section for determining whether or not each pixel is a part... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248268 | Subpixel rendering filters for high brightness subpixel layouts The present application discloses several methods, techniques and systems for rendering source image data onto high brightness subpixel arrangements—for example, RGBW display panels. Additionally, these techniques have application for rendering data onto 3-color d... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245300 | Architecture for real-time texture look-up's for volume rendering A slice plane, oriented parallel to a viewing plane, is passed through a cuboidal dataset at regular intervals. The intersection of the slice plane with the cuboidal volume dataset results in primitives (quads, triangles, etc. depending on the angle and position of ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245308 | Display control device and display device A display control device is provided which includes characteristic value-calculating unit for calculating a characteristic value based on an input image signal, a conversion characteristic-calculating unit for determining a conversion characteristic from the charact... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245306 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, storage medium and program An image processing parameter is determined by moving an image displayed on a map representing a color space to an arbitrary position on the map, and an image process corresponding to the arbitrary position is performed on the image at the position after the movemen... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245301 | Rendering volumetric fog and other gaseous phenomena Systems and methods for rendering a gaseous display. The distance from a user's reference point to each pixel through the gas is determined. The distance is then converted into an attenuation factor that is used to blend the scene color with the gas color. The resul... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245942 | Mobile communications terminal and method therefore A mobile communication terminal comprising a user interface and a processor. The mobile communication terminal receives color data, from which the processor generates a colour scheme for the user interface. The light generating means receive the color scheme and pro... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242384 | Image processing device, and image display device provided with such an image processing device In an image display device, how R, G, and B light is emitted to display an image on a display panel is measured with a sensor, and, according to the measurement value obtained from the sensor, the power with which to drive a light source that supplies light needed f... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242377 | Image display device This invention relates to an image display device having: an adjusting circuit that adjusts image signals to be inputted based on an adjusting value to be sequentially up-to-dated; a non-linear converting circuit at a stage after the adjusting circuit, the non-linea... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242422 | Circuit and method for decoding color code of a 3D display A circuit and a method for decoding a color code of a 3D display. The color code decoding circuit is built into an on-screen display of a circuit in a display. The color code decoding circuit has several comparators, several recording buffers, a register, a first co... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242799 | Method of generating painted or tile mosaic reproduction of a photograph or graphic image A method for creating a hand colorable panel with a set of indicia for guiding the user in coloring to create the image. The method includes providing an image in digital form into a memory in a programmable computer, assigning pixel locations to the image, assignin... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242381 | Display panel A display panel includes a first halftone dot layer and a second halftone dot layer. The first and the second layers are formed with halftone dots printed at regular intervals in gradation patterns so that brightness gradually changes. The first and the second layer... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242409 | Interpolated color transform for changing color of an application user interface A system and method for adjusting the color of an application user interface (UI). A UI allows a user to define hue and saturation values used to adjust first RGB values of pixels determining the color of the UI. A media player application (MPA) calculates second RG... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239319 | Rendering outline fonts Rendering an outline font. Rendering an outline font by adding Bezier control points to further define a contour of an outline font and applying an in or out test to determine if a pixel falls within the contour of an outline font. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239744 | Color conversion method, color conversion apparatus, color conversion matrix generation method and color conversion matrix generation program A color conversion method is provided wherein, in a case where color signals outputted by a sensor such as a CCD are to be converted into signals expressive of predetermined colors prescribed in a predetermined color space, a conversion matrix is calculated by a mul... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239327 | Method of processing an image for display and system of same A method for processing a digital signal to enhance the resolution is disclosed. An embodiment provides for a method of processing an image for display on a display having sub-pixel display capability. The method first maps a plurality sub-pixels of the display to c... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239329 | Brush texture simulating apparatus and method Techniques for superimposing highlights and shadows onto a background in order to simulate a brush texture graphical style within a software application's component window. The techniques include decoding a user-selected base-color into its individual color componen... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237221 | Matrix optical process correction A method for performing a matrix-based verification technique such as optical process correction (OPC) that analyzes interactions between movement of a fragment on a mask and one or more edges to be created on a wafer. In one embodiment, each edge to be created is a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236181 | Apparatus for color conversion and method thereof A color conversion apparatus and a method of color conversion are described for converting a first color in a first color space to a second color in a second color space. The color conversion apparatus includes a plurality of lookup tables storing color mappings rel... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236179 | Display device color channel reconstruction In general, the invention relates to techniques for reconstructing color channels in a multi-channel display device. The invention may be particularly useful in reconstructing the light source spectra for the color channels of liquid crystal displays (LCD). In order... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236960 | Software and system for customizing a presentation of digital images A method for customizing a presentation of a set of digital images provided by a user is disclosed, comprising the steps of selecting an initial presentation format criteria for the set of digital images by the user; analyzing the digital images for additional infor... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233413 | Gamut description and visualization This invention pertains to a computer-implemented method and program for the comparison of color gamuts. Using first and second collections of sample color points respective hulls are created in a color space. The set of all of the points disposed on the surf... | 06/19/2007 |
