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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189911 | Method for assessing image quality A method for assessing image quality between a reference image and an impaired image is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of subband decomposition of the luminance component of the reference image into N subbands, called re... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189910 | Color interpolation method for digital image A color interpolation method for a digital image is described, includes the following steps. Edge information is generated according to the Bayer pattern. A Bayer pattern image is processed by a horizontal band-pass filter and a vertical band-pass filter to generate... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189909 | Color temperature conversion method and apparatus having luminance correction conversion function A color temperature conversion method and apparatus having a luminance correction conversion function are provided. The color temperature conversion method controls a color temperature of an image display device. In the color temperature conversion method, a user-se... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184903 | Color correction method and apparatus of RGB signal A color correction method of an RGB signal includes the following steps. First, an original RGB-coordinate point in an RGB color space is defined according to the RGB signal, and a reference plane is obtained according to the original RGB-coordinate point. The origi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184905 | Apparatus for color interpolation using adjustable threshold An apparatus for color interpolation using an adjustable threshold is disclosed. The color interpolation apparatus calculates the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the elements of the image data and determines the color interpolation meth... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184904 | Method and apparatus for dynamic and adaptive enhancement of colors in digital video images A method and apparatus for dynamically, adaptively and/or concurrently enhancing and diminishing of colors in digital video images is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes dynamically computing a saturation gain, adaptive to slow or fast moving image seque... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180150 | Method and apparatus providing automatic color balancing for digital imaging systems Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the pixels are pruned. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain is calculated and applied to the im... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180149 | Image processing apparatus and method This invention reduces the image data capacity by using PQR (spectral auxiliary coefficients) in addition to CIELAB (fundamental stimulus values). To accomplish this, there is provided an image processing apparatus which inputs image data representing an image, and ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175382 | Learning image enhancement Image enhancement techniques are described to enhance an image in accordance with a set of training images. In an implementation, an image color tone map is generated for a facial region included in an image. The image color tone map may be normalized to a color ton... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175383 | Apparatus, method, and program product for image processing From the target image data, a luminance component, a first color difference component, and a second color difference component which represent color of respective pixels are acquired; and a maximum magnitude smoothing process is carried out on the first color differ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165395 | Automatic image color tone correction A method of image color tone correction is disclosed, which may include the steps of (a) providing a reference image and one or more source images, wherein all images are comprised of pixels of a scene; (b) correcting a designated portion of one of the source images... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165396 | Digital image editing system and method for combining a foreground image with a background image A digital image editing method includes: reading a foreground image and a background image, where the foreground image has a foreground portion; calculating three correction constants each of which is used to correct one of three components of the foreground portion... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160356 | Method and apparatus for correcting preferred color and liquid crystal display device using the same A method and apparatus for correcting a preferred color, which is capable of correcting the preferred color in consideration of an input image and the visual characteristics of a person by correcting differences between colors preferred by the person and an average ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160355 | Method, device and computer program product for performing white balancing of a digital image A method for performing white balancing of a digital image, the method includes: generating or receiving multiple candidates, each candidate represents a pixel area of the digital image; applying multiple white balancing estimation processes on the candidates to pro... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155439 | Image processing apparatus for correcting image color and image processing program An image processing device of the present application includes a color drift correcting section, a saturation reduction calculating section, and a color correcting section. The color drift correcting section corrects a color drift of an input image and generates a c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155441 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for color fringing estimation and compensation This invention more effectively suppresses color fringing in a color image by image processing. An image processing method includes estimating the degree of color fringing in a color image based on the color image that is generated by photo-electrically converting a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155440 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The gradients of a reference image signal and suppression target image signals are respectively detected. Suppression coefficients are computed according to functions defined based on the magnitude relationship among the gradient value of the reference image signal ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155438 | Apparatus and method for adjusting inputted color concerning total and specific colors A specific color-adjusting stage adjusts data of an inputted color with respect to a specific color. A total color-adjusting stage adjusts the data of the inputted color with respect to a total color. The specific color-adjusting stage and the total color-adjusting ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150154 | Method and apparatus for correcting chromatic aberration of image Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting chromatic aberration of an image, the method and apparatus used in an image processing apparatus for an image pickup device or a display image processing apparatus. The chromatic aberration correction apparatus incl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144983 | Image editing workflow with color management The present disclosure includes systems and methods relating to preserving color representations during color transformation processes. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144984 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for color fringing estimation and compensation This invention more effectively suppresses color fringing in a color image by image processing. An image processing method includes estimating the degree of color fringing in a color image based on the color image that is generated by photo-electrically converting a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144982 | Image processing device that adjusts specific color of color image An adjusting portion adjusts values of lightness, chroma, and hue. A change-amount setting portion sets an amount of change for each of lightness, chroma, and hue. A weighting-curve storing portion stores weighting curves for each of lightness, chroma, and hue. A we... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139857 | Local regression methods and systems for image processing systems This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems for performing image processing regression for approximating multidimensional color transformation. According to an exemplary method, a shaping matrix is selected to minimize a cost function associated with a l... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139856 | Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and computer readable medium irregularizing pixel signals continuous in level near a saturation level An image processing apparatus, a computer readable medium and the like in which a dither effect in a neighborhood of a highlight area can be obtained easily and certainly. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit which inputs a pixe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139855 | Illuminant estimation method, medium, and system A color rendering technique, more particularly, an illuminant estimation method, medium, and system estimating an illuminant for white balancing. The illuminant estimation method includes detecting a plurality of valid images from input image data, and determining a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139854 | Method and apparatus for performing conversion of skin color into preference color by applying face detection and skin area detection A method and apparatus for performing a conversion of a skin color of an input image into a preference color by applying face detection and skin color detection is disclosed. The method includes: detecting a face area from the input image; detecting a skin area from... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135214 | Image processing device and method for correcting a color of a specific area in an image An image processing device corrects a color of a specific area in a target image into an appropriate color. A representative brightness value represents the specific area in a first color space that has a brightness index value. Representative color component values... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135215 | Correction of color balance of face images On the basis of image data representing the area of a face image contained in an image represented by applied image data, a color correction value calculating circuit calculates a color correction value and a color image probability calculating circuit calculates th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135213 | Physical quantity interpolating method, and color signal processing circuit and camera system using the same A physical quantity interpolating method includes interpolating a third vector sandwiched between first and second vectors on the basis of a ratio of vector products computed using coordinate data of the first and second vectors and coordinate data of the third vect... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131073 | Apparatus, method, and manufacture for correcting color shading in CMOS image sensors A device for color shading correction is provided. Local color matching is performed as follows. For each pixel of the image that is being color matched, the RGB value is treated as a one-by-three matrix, which is multiplied by a three-by-three matrix that is genera... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131072 | Method and apparatus for reducing image artifacts based on aperture-driven color kill with color saturation assessment A method and apparatus for reducing false color artifacts in digital images. Aperture correction and color saturation values are determined for a portion of an image surrounding a subject pixel. A color attenuation value is determined based at least in part on the a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126265 | Method and apparatus of correcting hybrid flash artifacts in digital images A method for digital image eye artifact detection and correction include identifying one or more candidate red-eye defect regions in an acquired image. For one or more candidate red-eye regions, a seed pixels and/or a region of pixels having a high intensity value i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121404 | Exposure control apparatus and image pickup apparatus An exposure control apparatus for controlling an exposure adjustment mechanism on the basis of a captured image signal includes the following elements. A face detecting unit detects a face of a person appearing in a captured image on the basis of the captured image ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121405 | Systems and methods for skin-color-cognizant color mapping Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for adjusting image color values to accommodate a different color gamut. In some embodiments, colors within a skin-color region are preserved while colors outside the skin-color region are stretched t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121406 | Preference color adjusting system and method based on adjustment coefficient pairs from hue lookup tables A preference color adjusting system includes a saturation calculator, a hue calculator, a first lookup table device, a second lookup table device, a mixer, and a UV converter. The saturation calculator receives an RGB pixel and produces a saturation of the pixel. Th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111915 | Apparatus and method of enhancing color of image An apparatus and method of enhancing color of image is provided. The apparatus for enhancing color of image including: a saturation enhancement unit to enhance a saturation of an input image using a saturation variation according to a brightness feature of the input... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103096 | System and method for color space conversion with reduced artifacts A method and system convert an original digital image being represented by a first color space to a digital image being represented by a second color space by transforming the original image data represented by a first color space to second image data being represen... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103094 | Color correction based on skin color Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing color correction. One product can receive a digital image that includes a region depicting human skin; obtain a skin color value based on a sample; receive a skin parameter value that is a ta... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103095 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus that suppresses occurrences of color conversions not intended by the user. Information on affected regions for individual color conversion processes applied to an image is stored in the information processing apparatus. The inform... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098932 | Color correction method and apparatus of display apparatus The invention discloses a color correction method for adjusting the color performance of a display apparatus. The color correction method first displays a plurality of images on a panel of the display apparatus and measures the chromatic value and the luminance of e... | 01/17/2012 |
