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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184125 | Image processing method and device implementing said method The invention relates to a processing method of a sequence of images comprising image points each of which is associated with a color component. The method comprises a processing step of at least one image of the sequence from reference images, the processing step b... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7336285 | Method and system for maintaining fidelity of color correction information with displays Aspects for maintaining and providing a calibrated color environment for display devices of a computer system. In an aspect of an exemplary method, the method includes determining relevant state data. The method further includes saving the relevant state data as cal... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330856 | Item specification object management system A system and method for constructing data concerning items of an asset. The method comprises: providing a user data entry interface; receiving a plurality of data values, each into a data field of the interface, wherein the plurality of data fields comprise a specif... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7295214 | Color melding apparatus and method Techniques for locating an array of melded colors onto a software application's component window in order to create three-dimensional and multicolor graphics within the component window. The techniques include decoding a first and second color into their respective ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277202 | Method for matching printing ink colors A system is provided that includes a first computer that can communicate with a second computer. The second computer sends information to the first computer that includes a desired ink color and optionally includes information of other desired ink properties. The fi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7164428 | Image display system, projector, image processing method, program and information storage medium To provide an image display system, projector, image processing method, program and information storage medium enabling to shorten the time required for calibration when the color and brightness of an image is corrected in consideration of the influence of the ambie... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7136187 | Color correcting relation extracting method and color correction method There are disclosed a color correcting relation extracting method capable of extracting a know-how of an image formation by a camera man, and a color correction method of reproducing the know-how. A color of a patch of a color chart is measured to obtain a colorimet... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7102648 | 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... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7038680 | System for graphical display and interactive exploratory analysis of data and data relationships A system for graphically displaying data, and for allowing users to interactively analyze said data, particularly with respect to detecting and analyzing any relationships within said data. The invention is particularly suited to analysis of large multi-variate matr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6996295 | Automatic document reading system for technical drawings A system and method for electronic archival of paper-based technical drawings includes a system having a processor, a form learning unit in signal communication with the processor for learning the form of a model drawing image, a form localization unit in signal com... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6977663 | Color error diffusion with color bleed control A method for controlling color bleed in relation to a system-invoked halftone color-image process which involves and includes the practice of error diffusion. The proposed method involves (a) selecting a location in the system which is downstream therein relative to... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975330 | Graphic display of network performance information A process for graphic display of network performance information includes querying a number of platforms serving communication network functions for performance data, scaling such data to a scale of colors, displaying hierarchically linked sets of graphic objects wh... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961037 | Processing of image data supplied to image display apparatus The technique of the present invention carries out image processing of image data, which are to be supplied to an image display apparatus having a less number of expressible tones than a number of tones included in original image data and a non-linear display charac... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956580 | Color display device with integrated color matching processor In one embodiment, a display device includes an integrated color matching processor that processes color data to facilitate accurate color rendering on the display device. The integrated color matching processor can be internal to the display device or external to t... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950782 | Model-based intelligent diagnostic agent The present invention provides a multi-level model-based intelligent agent diagnosis system and method for computer-controlled machinery operative to reduce the complexity typically associated with conventional model based diagnostic systems. The system utilizes a p... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937253 | Method for determining color space of an image A method for determining whether an input image is defined in accordance with a luminance-chrominance color space, includes receiving an input image in three dimensional color space, S1, S2 and S3, where S1 is an image value in the first ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6868412 | Means for and method of displaying a visual decision tree model A computer implemented means for and method of displaying a visual decision tree model in a symbol-based table is disclosed. This visual model includes a plurality of visual objects each of the visual objects being linked to at least one other object to form a decis... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6711448 | Setting display apparatus for a programmable controller A setting display apparatus for managing a programmable controller is arranged to enable a display program to be designed easily and efficiently and to reduce the memory capacity for the program. A display program is divided into a frame flow program and a frame for... | 03/23/2004 |
| 5808621 | System and method for selecting a color space using a neural network A system and method for automatically selecting a color space for use in compressing and decompressing a texture image that automatically determines a compression color space for each texture image. The invention selects a compression color space manually... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5798766 | Drawing system A drawing system includes a placeable point storage unit for storing identifiers for uniquely identifying a plurality of placeable points and positions of the placeable points on a two-dimensional plane in a one-to-one correspondence therebetween, an elem... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5777600 | Process for coding character colors in video systems and device using this process The invention concerns a process for coding the colors of characters in a video system, which includes a character generator making use of character models comprising at least two zones, and wherein a single color attribute whose level is higher than page... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5720017 | System and method for formulating a color match using color keys A method and system create a color match that reproduces a color standard. First, the color spectrum of a color standard is read. After reading the color spectrum, a plurality of formula keys corresponding to the color spectrum of the color standard are o... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5621868 | Generating imitation custom artwork by simulating brush strokes and enhancing edges The precision of an initial image is reduced through image automatic processing in a manner simulating techniques used in the production of a custom art work. The resulting image, although generated without human intervention, has a pleasing, customized a... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5568598 | Displaying images using progressive fade-in The transition from the display of a first image to the display of a second image is accomplished by progressively fading-in from the first image to the second image. The second image is received sequentially in two or more sets of signals. As each set of... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5218671 | Image color correction system and method A system and method for correcting errors in the colors of an image in a computer-aided design system; such errors being introduced by a process such as the production of a hard-copy of an image displayed on a graphic CRT. Tools are provided for the user ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5142615 | System and method of supporting a plurality of color maps in a display for a digital data processing system A display arrangement in a digital data processing system having an interface for controlling the display of hierarchically arranged display objects, each having associated display criteria, in response to a hierarchically-arranged layer control arrangeme... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5121469 | Method and apparatus for processing and displaying multivariate time series data A method and apparatus for processing and displaying data, and which are especially well suited to display high volumes of data at high rates, in a manner utilizing the vast human capability to perceive and recognize changes in patterns. The method compri... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4907075 | Method for selecting colors A method for selecting a limited number of presentation colors from a larger palette for a selected image. A three dimensional color histogram of said image is generated and a first color is selected based upon the color occurring most frequently in the i... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4881067 | Image forming apparatus and method In changing or otherwise handling sequential videotex codes composed of geometric codes representing individual image areas as respective geometric drawings and also characteristic codes representing attributes of the geometric drawings, the order of tran... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4825388 | Apparatus and method for processing digital images A computer graphics apparatus and a method for allowing the comparison of two or more digitally-stored images on a raster-scan display device, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), by use of arithmetic or Boolean logic operations performed on the picture elem... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4824269 | Variable color display typewriter A typewriter with variable color display visually presents typed text in a color variable in accordance with the typing speed and accuracy.... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4700318 | Project construction with depiction means and methods Construction of projects such as buildings, bridges, dams, industrial plants, means of transport, or the like with the aid of means and methods for incremental depiction of such buildings, etc. Complex structural features of the construction project are d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4648046 | Editing and reflecting color display attributes of non-active profiles In a computer system in which a plurality of user profiles exist which contain specifications relative to a variety of parameters, the capability is provided to access and edit a profile other than the one which is presently active for the system. While a... | 03/03/1987 |
