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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059135 | Image output apparatus, image output method and image output program product An image output apparatus is provided with an image conversion unit for converting image data into an output image of intermediate gradation using a line screen for forming pixel points in stripes, an element angle storing unit for storing the angle information of l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7834887 | Methods and systems for combining luminance preserving quantization and halftoning A color quantization or re-quantization method is provided that combines two dimensional halftoning with luminance preserving quantization (LPQ) for better perception results of high precision color video quantization. A combination of LPQ and error diffusion, and a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7623138 | Color information processing apparatus and method The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, init... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7420571 | Method for processing a gray level in a plasma display panel and apparatus using the same A system and method for processing a gray level in a display device performs a random error diffusion operation on the video data using a first random coefficient value and a random dithering operation on the error-diffused video data using a second random coefficie... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414625 | Generation of glow effect A technique generates a glow effect in an image. The technique selects an area within a scene that is to glow to produce a selected area image, generates glow using the selected area image to produce a glowing area image, and then adds the glowing area image to the ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403205 | Fast primary mapping and gamut adaptation to construct three dimensional lookup tables Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for rendering colors between color devices. The method includes establishing a source color gamut for a source device and the source color gamut has a white point, a black point, and primary points. The method also in... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7379072 | Method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint In a method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint covering a plurality of texels in a texel grid, in a graphic system, form information of the footprint is determined at first. Afterwards, the edges of... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369277 | Image processing apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer program A drawing instruction processor refers to a bit map line table that shows whether the bit arrays in the row unit are the same in the order of concentrations. The drawing instruction processor decides whether dither patterns to be used for the adjacent specified draw... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362472 | Color error diffusion A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes producing an error signal for each color channel, combining the error signals to p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355600 | Global intersection analysis for determining intersections of objects in computer animation A method of globally analyzing intersections between objects in computer animation includes providing objects represented by meshes, with each of the meshes being formed by a set of vertices, where a set of pairs of vertices defines a set of edges of the mesh. All e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355612 | Displaying spatially offset sub-frames with a display device having a set of defective display pixels A method of displaying an image with a display device having a set of defective display pixels includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data. The method includes s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352373 | Systems and methods for multi-dimensional dither structure creation and application Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for creation, modification and implementation of dither pattern structures. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349571 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336275 | Pseudo random number generator and method A pseudo random number generator that generates a plurality of intermediate values, where each successive intermediate value is based, at least in part, on one of the succeeding intermediate values, where a final value based on a subset of the plurality of intermedi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7330585 | Color selection and coordination kiosk and system A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships for providing one or more combinations of complementary colors for the desired starting color based on color theory and expert input. One implementation of the invent... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330173 | Display and method of driving the same In a display, a first liquid crystal panel has gate bus lines, source bus lines, TFTs, and pixel electrodes, as well as a source driver. A second liquid crystal panel has gate bus lines, source bus lines, TFTs, and pixel electrodes. The source bus lines of the secon... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324118 | Super imposed image display color selection system and method An optimal pen color is automatically selected for a given background color based upon a predetermined relative distance in the Munsell color-order system. The predetermined distance is defined in terms of saturation, hue and or lightness. In general, sufficient vis... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317458 | Image display apparatus, image display program, image display method, and recording medium for recording the image display program An image display apparatus includes a display unit that arranges and displays display images of a plurality of original images in a plurality of display areas on a display so as to be comparable with each other, an operation input unit that sets a color temperature ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7286142 | System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance A method of rendering a plurality of graphical objects of an image on a scanline basis, with each scanline having at least one run of pixels, and each run of pixels being associated with at least one of the graphical objects such that the pixels of the run are withi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283142 | Color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts A color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts is disclosed. The display can include a plurality of a sub-pixel group. The sub-pixel group can have a plurality of sub-pixels wherein each sub-pixel has a height along a vertical axis and a width ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283662 | Protecting colors from clipping Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for protecting colors from being clipped during color adjustment. A first set of colors is identified in a source color space, and a first color mapping is specified to associate colors in the source color ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283105 | Microdisplay and interface on single chip A microdisplay having interface circuitry on the same silicon backplane to allow it to receive digital images and video in a variety of formats and convert same to field sequential color signals for generation of full color images. It includes column data processors... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280688 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274383 | Arrangement of color pixels for full color imaging devices with simplified addressing A three-color pixel element for a display comprises a blue emitter disposed at the origin of a rectangular coordinate system having four quadrants, a pair of red emitters and a pair of green emitters spaced apart from the blue emitter and symmetrically disposed abou... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268790 | Display system with framestore and stochastic dithering A display system provides temporal stochastic dithering to image data for storage in a frame buffer for display. Stochastic dithering is used to reduce the size of the frame buffer and the complexity of the drive circuitry that is used to display an image in accorda... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259740 | Display device and semiconductor device A display device of high definition, multiple colors and low power consumption includes a display panel having a pixel section in which pixels are arrayed in the form of a matrix at the cross points of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines, a s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256795 | Extended power management via frame modulation control Power consumption in a portable computer device that provides true-color simulation on a liquid crystal display can be realized by selectively operating a graphics controller that drives the LCD to selectively enable or disable true color simulation. Disabling dithe... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7230629 | 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... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227666 | Dynamic selection of rendering intent for color proofing transforms In general, in one aspect, the invention features an apparatus, method, and computer program product for automatically selecting a rendering intent. It includes identifying a device color profile associated with a device; and automatically selecting a rendering inte... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227519 | Method of driving display panel, luminance correction device for display panel, and driving device for display panel In conventional methods of correction luminance in displays, it has been necessary to interrupt video display during use in order to carry out correction. This is a problem in that interruptions are not good for workability from the perspective of the user of the im... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224371 | Picture signal processor, picture signal processing method, and picture signal processing program product The invention provides a picture signal processor comprising: a sampling circuit that receives picture signals of a plurality of standard colors separated from a video signal and samples the picture signals of the plurality of standard colors in turn repeatedly; and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221381 | Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment The gamma adjustment allows the luminance for the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel, while the chrominance can match the linear response of the human eye's chrominance channels. The gamma correction all... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215346 | Readability A method of controlling a user interface to display a first graphical element and a second graphical element where the second graphical element, overlays at least a portion of a first graphical element, comprising: determining first color(s) corresponding to the col... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209146 | Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adj... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209144 | Image-display apparatus, image-display method, and image-display program Aspects of the invention provide an image-display apparatus including an image display, such as a liquid-crystal display panel, where the image display can display a limited number of gray scales, interpolation is performed so that the number of gray scales displaye... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209182 | False contour correcting apparatus and method A false contour correcting apparatus is capable of removing a false contour in an image based on a digital image signal while avoiding such a side effect caused by false contour correction where noises negatively effecting the display occur on a screen. Therefore, i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206000 | System and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a scene A system and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a digital or digitized image from the image and a pixel disparity map of the image is presented. The two layer representation includes a main layer having pixels exhibiting background colors and b... | 04/17/2007 |
