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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7616216 | Digital content creation system, program product, and storage medium There is disclosed a digital content creation system including: a representative color obtaining section that obtains, from a digital content input, a characteristic amount of at least one representative color for the digital content input, the digital content input... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609276 | 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... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7605823 | ICC consistent chromatic adaptation Systems and methods for providing consistent chromatic adaptation to a workflow comprising a number of International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles is provided. In accordance with an exemplary method of the present invention, the profiles within the workflow that r... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7605824 | 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... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602402 | Method of displaying colors of graphic objects on screen control display A method of displaying color objects for the screen control display is provided. First, a plurality of elements and son elements on a screen control display respectively to a first level list and a plurality of second level lists is provided. Each of said elements o... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602400 | Color adjusting method and color adjusting apparatus A color adjusting method of adjusting colors of a color image. The method includes: adjusting a color of the color image by converting a value of a parameter representing a straight line passing through a color to be adjusted in a color space representing the color ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602401 | Image display apparatus and method, program therefor, and recording medium having recorded thereon the same An image display apparatus for displaying an image on a panel having pixels each including a plurality of subpixels of different colors includes an interpolation operator interpolating consecutive sampling values of pieces of input color data to correct phases of th... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7598962 | Graphics display system with window descriptors A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip uses window descriptors to describe lo... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7598963 | Operating sub-pixel rendering filters in a display system A method of operating spatial sampling filters comprises detecting subpixel rendered areas, turning on a first set of spatial sampling filters for the subpixel rendered areas in response to detecting said subpixel rendered areas, detecting non-subpixel rendered area... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7598961 | method and apparatus for converting from a source color space to a target color space Systems and methods are disclosed to effect a multiple mode display system that may accept multiple input image data formats and output several possible image data formats. One method is disclosed for converting from a source color space to a target color space. The... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7557813 | Picture displaying method, picture displaying program, and editing apparatus A picture displaying apparatus and method of arranging mapping corresponding to the whole or a part of a material that has a time concept in time series on a screen. Gradation is set to the mapping of the whole of the material. Gradation that is set to a region corr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554552 | Method of graphical generation of vectors with dark contours The field of the invention is that of graphical libraries providing graphical functions used for the drawing of symbologic images. One of the fields of favored application is the generation of symbologic images for the piloting of aircraft. The object of the inventi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554553 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548245 | Image formats for video capture, processing and display Techniques and tools for representing pixel data in a video processing or capture system are described. Described techniques and tools provide efficient color representation for video processing and capture, and provide flexibility for representing colors using diff... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545385 | Increased color depth, dynamic range and temporal response on electronic displays A display method and system maps each source image pixel from a source device into several display pixels on a display screen, where the characteristics of the display pixels are selectively controlled to provide desired visual effects such as multiple luminance lev... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542048 | Apparatus and method for converting metadata color temperature and apparatus and method for providing metadata An apparatus for providing image metadata includes an input unit, an image metadata decoding unit, and an image color temperature converting unit. The input unit receives an input image, metadata corresponding to the color temperature of the input image, and color t... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7538774 | Virtual visual point image generating method and 3-d image display method and device A virtual viewpoint image generation method for generating a virtual viewpoint image that is an image of an object viewed from a virtual viewpoint based on plural images of the object taken by plural cameras. Projection planes having a multi-layered structure are se... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7502031 | Automatic component interface creator A cross-platform interface tool provides a common interface for any hardware or software component having some advertising mechanism listing its features, input, and output requirements. The advertising mechanism can take a number of different forms, including data,... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7489319 | Light source device for three-dimensional display A highly precise and durable light source device 50 for a three-dimensional display does not use a mechanical construction and thus can rapidly move an illuminating point on a light source to a position that best matches the positional movement of an observer... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489320 | System and method for conserving memory bandwidth while supporting multiple sprites A system and method for conserving memory bandwidth while supporting multiple sprites includes a memory device that stores main display data and the multiple sprites for presentation upon a display device. A display controller populates a fetch table with pixel sour... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486299 | High dynamic range image editing A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the light intensity levels of pixels within a second range of light intens... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483036 | Reducing the number of compositing operations performed in a pixel sequential rendering system An apparatus for recording an object-based image one pixel at a time in scanline order includes an optimization module for generating a set of compositing messages corresponding to a first pixel and generating a reduced set of compositing messages from the set of co... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483037 | Resampling chroma video using a programmable graphics processing unit to provide improved color rendering A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream is decoded. After decoding the compressed image is separated into an image representing the luminance and an image r... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479965 | Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render Circuits, methods, and apparatus that reduce the amount of data transferred between a graphics processor integrated circuit and graphics memory. Various embodiments of the present invention further improve the efficiency of blenders that are included on a graphics p... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479966 | Method and apparatus for super montage large area spectroscopic imaging The disclosure relates to Method and Apparatus for Super Montage Large area Spectroscopic Imaging. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for producing a spectroscopic image of an object includes the steps of (a) irradiating the object with light to thereby p... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474315 | Deep pixel display A method, apparatus, and system for generating a deep pixel display on a display device are provided. A first set of data relating to a first pixel is provided. The first set of data is stored. A second set of data relating to the first pixel is provided. At least o... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471299 | Compositing graphical objects Systems, computer-implemented methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for rendering an image. A target area is identified in the image and a set of pixels to sample is selected from the target area to sample. An attribute... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7468732 | Character display apparatus and character display method, control program for controlling the character display method and recording medium recording the control program A character display apparatus is provided, which comprises a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, and a control section for controlling the display device. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a predetermined di... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468733 | Method and system for improving color reduction A method and system for reducing or eliminating artifacts that may occur during color reduction of images. A bias is added to a data structure that is arranged to store counts of pixel colors of an image. Counts of pixel colors of the image are added to the data str... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7466321 | Method and apparatus for the creation of cartoon effect videos A user provides a plurality of video frames for processing, and selects a cartoon color palette. The color of all selected pixels within all selected video frames is changed to that of the closest match in color within the cartoon color palette and is stored in a me... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466319 | System and method for fast gradient pixel clears in graphics rendering A system and method of maintaining a gradient in a plurality of pixels of a graphics display, such as a color or intensity gradient, where each pixel has an X coordinate, Y coordinate, and other pixel data that includes a fast-clear bit The pixels are filled on the ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466320 | User interface and method for persistent viewing of a user selected folder on a mobile device A mobile device enables communication over a wireless communication network between the user of the mobile device and a correspondent. The mobile device includes a display having a plurality of display modes including a folder view display mode wherein a plurality o... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7456843 | Method and apparatus for improved color correction Methods and apparatuses for performing gamma corrections to maintain a plurality of colors substantially consistent with a color point. In one aspect of the present invention, a method to generate correction functions for performing color correction for a device for... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456842 | Color edge based system and method for determination of 3D surface topology A method and system for determining surface topology of a three-dimensional (3D) structure, based on a structured pattern that is projected onto the surface structure, and images of the pattern superposed on the structured surface are analysed to provide surface coo... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456844 | Image transmission method, computer-readable image transmission program, recording medium, and image transmission apparatus An image transmission method comprises the steps of: receiving a request including request information having size information concerning an image and/or area information concerning the image; reconstructing small image areas by taking out code words constituting th... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453467 | Method for dominant color setting of video region and data structure and method of confidence measure extraction A method for a dominant color setting of a video region and a data structure and a method of a confidence measure extraction are disclosed. The video region dominant color setting method is characterized in that a region dominant color descriptor is expressed by the... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450134 | Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding images Methods and apparatus for generating images, compressing image data, decompressing image data, and processing the decompressed image data so that it can be used by a rendering circuit of a device, e.g., a set top box, are described. Images are generated in the nativ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450133 | System and method for color correction This invention is directed to a system and method for performing color corrections on color image data. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for performing color corrections on color image data in a primary color system. This inventio... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7446779 | Color signal correction apparatus, color signal correction method and image display apparatus A color signal correction apparatus, for suppressing variation of a chromaticity point of achromatic color in a display apparatus, equipped with independent luminescent characteristic correction units respectively for each color for correcting a luminescent characte... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444038 | Image correction apparatus and image correcting method Images at two or more correction levels are output as corrected images for a given image, and a user is allowed to select a preferred corrected image. Based on the selection result of the user, an image to be corrected which is different from the given image is corr... | 10/28/2008 |
