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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366347 | Edge detecting method There is provided an edge detecting method, which is capable of preventing a noise influence caused by imaging device and a color interpolation. The edge detecting method includes the steps of: setting a first kernel based on a center pixel in pixel data arranged in... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355654 | Character display control circuit A character display control circuit comprises a selection circuit to select and output, as one of the RGB signals, one of a first voltage, a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and one or more third voltages existing between the first and second voltages; a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7280681 | Method and apparatus for generating a combined parameter map In a method and apparatus for generating a combined parameter map from a number of individual, initial parameter maps that contain values of various parameters dependent on the position (x, y), for each of the initial parameter maps and for each position, the signal... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7219831 | Check processing method, check processing program medium, and check processing apparatus A check processing method, a program medium, and a check processing apparatus store image data equivalent to the image data captured from the back of a printed check with a single check insertion operation using a compact, easily controlled apparatus. A back image s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218327 | Font memory for a display A font memory for a display includes a ROM with a storage region divided into a program storing region and a font data storing region, divided into a mono-font data storing region and a color font data storing region, and designed to map and store data in three segm... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7170941 | Temporal compression The present invention discloses a temporal compressor and decompressor for sequences of images. The compressor includes an interface for receiving the sequence of images. A spatial compressor generates spatially compressed image fields from the sequence of images, a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7149249 | Color video codec method and system In one aspect of a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a system for video compression comprising a video preprocessor; a predictor configured to receive video data from the preprocessor; and an encoder configured to communicate with the predictor. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129980 | Image capturing apparatus and automatic exposure control correcting method When a shutter release button of an image capturing apparatus is half pressed, an exposure time t is determined by a normal AE function. Then, if a shutter release button is fully pressed, an image is captured with the exposure time t, and the captured image is stor... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116323 | Method of hidden surface reconstruction for creating accurate three-dimensional images converted from two-dimensional images An exemplary method of reconstructing a hidden surface area in an image includes the steps of: identifying a separation pixel gap in an image resulting from a repositioning of image pixels to create a three-dimensional image; identifying pixels from one or more imag... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102789 | Method for rendering an image comprising multi-level pixels A halftoning method utilizes staged, overlapping pixel intensity growth in a halftone cell in rendering a halftone image with multi-level pixels. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6775406 | Colorizing a black-and-white image to facilitate the identification of a pattern in the image The invention facilitates the identification of a pattern in an image by displaying a multiplicity of versions of the image in sequence at a specified rate. The display of each version of the image includes only pixels having a specified grayscale value or a graysca... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6714208 | Method of displaying monochromatic image on color monitor and image display apparatus for implementing the method The method of displaying a monochromatic image on a color monitor and the image display apparatus display the monochromatic image on a color display device with red, green and blue cells as a unit pixel. In the method and apparatus, all density regions of the monoch... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6088056 | Image frequency restoration system for a single charge coupled device video camera An image frequency restoration system for a single CCD color video camera which comprises decorrelation modules, frequency restoration modules and a multiplexer. The decorrelation modules are for receiving degraded RGB component signals image-processed by... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6028646 | Color image enhancement device for video display appliance A color image enhancement device for a video display appliance capable of improving the sharpness of the color image using a saturation component. The device includes an RGB (red, green, blue)/saturation conversion section for obtaining a saturation of an... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5910818 | Image restoration system for a single charge coupled device video camera An image restoration system for a single CCD color video camera which comprises decorrelation modules, restoration modules and a multiplexer. The decorrelation modules are for receiving degraded RGB component signals image-processed by the single CCD and ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5857190 | Event logging system and method for logging events in a network system An event logging system is provided for an interactive entertainment network system having a headend or content provider interconnected via a distribution network to multiple user interface units. Each user interface unit has an event evaluator to determi... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5586236 | Universal color look up table and method of generation A system and method for managing the color palette for an object oriented operating system providing for the sharing of a plurality (e.g., 256) of colors for display by an external device. In a first aspect, an 8-bit color lookup table (CLUT) is shared by... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5534915 | Method of color enhancing a monochrome image using multiple base colors for selected regions of the monochrome image A method for color enhancing an image comprised of a plurality of pixels representing gray-scale values by selecting a region of the image for which color is to be applied. Next, at least two base colors are selected which will divide the color attributes... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5471241 | Image sensing method and apparatus for producing a color video signal and luminance video signal An image sensing apparatus having a small amount of circuitry and exhibiting little power consumption is characterized in that a required delay line is connected into the circuitry at a point after a gamma-corrector in a digital signal processing system t... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5467123 | Apparatus & method for enhancing color images Color image enhancement apparatus comprising apparatus for receiving signals representing a color image, image processing apparatus, employing the received signals, for image processing of the high spatial frequency chromatic components of a color image, ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5194746 | Method and device for examining components with data digitized into a large number of gray levels A method and device for processing and representing data corresponding to defects in a part, wherein an initial image is discretized into a plurality of image points and the intensity at each point is digitized by gray level, for display on a monitor. For... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5182639 | Real-time analytic pseudocolor encoder system Continuous analytic transform functions implemented optically in U.S. Pat. No. 4,623,245 are instead implemented electronically and in real-time. An improved scheme is disclosed where the range of amplitudes of the monochromatic signal input is divided in... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5168352 | Coloring device for performing adaptive coloring of a monochromatic image A coloring device includes an image sampling device for sampling an input signal block representing a group of n×m pixels of a monochromatic image and for outputting first signals representing the sampled pixels of the input signal block of the monochrom... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5155589 | Storage and retrieval of images from a grey image having artificially enhanced color regions Methods and apparatus for decomposing a set of complementary color signals that form a color enhanced image into four or five color maps of an image, for storing said four or five color maps on a sheet of black and white film, and for reconstructing color... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5093717 | System and method for digitally coloring images A system and method for digitally coloring an image or a series of images such as a motion picture by digitally capturing the images, interactively defining masks corresponding to objects in the images having similar hues, and for each mask, defining a co... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5019898 | Real-time pseudocolor density encoding of an image A method and apparatus are disclosed for real-time optical broadband pseudocolor encoding of an image. A light polarization spatial modulator is utilized to density encode an incident beam of plane-polarized light; the beam is dispersed into its primary c... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4998165 | Software invisible selective monochrome to color signal converter for medical diagnostic imaging A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus (A) creates an image representation which is stored in an image memory (24). A video processor (26) generates a monochrome video signal from the data stored in the image memory. A monochrome to color video signal con... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4984072 | System and method for color image enhancement A system and method for color enhancing an image or a series of images such as a motion picture by digitally capturing the images, interactively defining masks corresponding to objects in the images having similar hues, creating regions from these masks, ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4862256 | Method of, and apparatus for, coloring a black and white video signal A method of coloring a black and white video signal is provided. At least one area of a frame is defined with reference to luminance values in that frame, and luminance levels are assigned to that area. A color is then assigned to that area, and the area ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4755870 | Coloring a black and white signal using motion detection A method and apparatus for coloring a black and white film. The film is converted to video tape and the locations of edges of moving objects in frames of the video signal are used to develop a motion indicator key. The motion indicator key is used to redu... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4754488 | Method for ascertaining and filling of bounded areas of a colored raster display A method for use in a bit-mapped presentation display system for ascertaining the boundary of an arbitrarily-shaped closed polygon filled with a first color-coded pel pattern and then filling the ascertained polygon with a second color-coded pel pattern. ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4725833 | Tone control device in monochromatic tone display apparatus In a tone control device in a monochromatic tone display apparatus, when an intensity signal and at least one of the R, G and B signals is active, an AND gate generates a maximum tone level signal. A selector/adder having OR gates and resistors receives t... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4710805 | Method of, and apparatus for, modifying luminance levels of a black and white video signal A method of modifying luminance levels of a black and white video signal is provided. The signal is fed to a voltage controlled amplifier and to first and second clipper amplifiers. Each clipper amplifier has an adjustable gain and an adjustable clip leve... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4608596 | System for colorizing video with both pseudo-colors and selected colors A system is disclosed for forming frames of color video signals. A video color encoder and a multichannel keyer are employed in generating color frames from monochrome frames. Colors from a pseudo-color generator can be automatically inserted in portions ... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4574393 | Gray scale image processor A method for determining the average gray value of a plurality of regions within a digitized electronic video image and for determining the color of the region from the average gray value. Initial image segmentation is accomplished by thresholding a multi... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4442428 | Composite video color signal generation from digital color signals A 3.58 MHz subcarrier signal and a 14.318 MHz clock signal are applied to three flipflops (50, 52 and 54) in such a manner that there appears on the output terminals (Q and Q) of the latches individual phase-shifted subcarriers having relative phases of 0... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4149184 | Multi-color video display systems using more than one signal source An improved video display system is provided in which two color images are combinable in a dynamic and self-determining fashion to provide improved contrast, comprehension and display versatility. Two separate video signals that are to be used in generati... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4149185 | Apparatus and method for animated conversion of black and white video to color Apparatus is disclosed for conversion of black and white video signals to color video signals, featuring programmable means for animated adjustment of the coloring of one or more areas of the resulting TV picture. The black and white video signal is proce... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4125858 | Video display arrangements For a computerized radiographic apparatus, providing a cross-sectional representation of absorption of radiation in the body of a patient, there is provided a television standard display of cross-section. The display can be high-definition monochrome or i... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4015076 | Noise eliminating circuit for video television signal A high frequency band signal is separated from a demodulated video signal and then is supplied to a noise clipping circuit in which black peak portions of the signal exceeding a predetermined black signal level are clipped. The resulting clipped output is... | 03/29/1977 |
