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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179402 | Generating colorimetric profiles from spectral data and user input A profile generation module which generates colorimetric color profiles based on spectral data and user input on viewing conditions, light source, and medium. In situations where the available color profiles are colorimetric, the colorimetric color profiles are pass... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8154562 | Method and arrangement for improving the grayscale resolution of a monochrome monitor A method and an arrangement for improving the digital-signal-generated grayscale resolution of a monochrome visual display unit (3) to which the digital signals from an image source (1) can be supplied over n-bit wide RGB channels (2). Measures ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149244 | Projection system, information processing apparatus and projector A projection system comprising an information processing apparatus capable of processing image data and a projector capable of performing a display process on the image data processed by the information processing apparatus, when the bit number representing the numb... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144165 | Color processing apparatus, color processing method, and computer readable medium storing color processing program A color processing apparatus includes an image signal acquisition section, a color conversion matrix storage section, a matrix regularization processing section and a normal color conversion section. The image signal acquisition section acquires an image signal cont... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139081 | Method for conversion between YUV 4:4:4 and YUV 4:2:0 Systems and methods for converting between a first color space format and a second color space format are described herein. The system receives a video cell in a first color space format comprising a plurality of pixels. Each pixel in the cell has a luminance value ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130236 | Systems and methods to achieve preferred imager color reproduction A method and apparatus for processing image pixel signals having at least two color components in which at least some of the image pixel signals are classified into a plurality of classifications and transformed by a transform function associated with the classifica... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8098260 | Method and apparatus for mapping a multi-dimensional signal from one space to another space In a method of mapping data from a source space to a target space, a space transformation look-up table (LUT) that contains a plurality of locations storing information is maintained, wherein each of the plurality of locations includes information specifying a funct... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094166 | Flat panel display capable of automatically correcting color characteristics and method thereof A method for correcting color characteristics of a flat panel display comprises the steps of using a signal generating device to generate an input signal to the display and a color measurement instrument to measure color displayed by the display to obtain an output ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081194 | Method for enhancing colour resolution and device exploiting the method The invention relates to a method for enhancing color resolution and particularly for obtaining bit resolution in a display using a bits per pixel system frame buffer. The invention uses logic to create intermediate pixel values between bpp color values. The inventi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8035654 | Tuning cell sizes in interpolated lookup tables Tuning sizes of cells of an interpolated lookup table may be performed based at least in part on an area specific behavior of a quality metric. A weighted input shaper curve may be determined to reduce interpolation errors in a multi-dimensional color lookup table. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7999826 | Color conversion device, color conversion method, color conversion program, recording medium recording color conversion program, image processing device, and image display device A color conversion device that color-converts colors of input image data into colors used in a display unit for displaying images using at least white includes: a ratio calculating unit that calculates a lightness ratio and a saturation ratio between a color reprodu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7965300 | Methods and systems for efficient white balance and gamma control Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for determining device white point and gamma correction curve characteristics. ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7864193 | RGB color conversion palettes A method for color conversion includes calculating distances between color coordinates in a conversion palette and a color coordinate for a pixel and assigning the pixel a color coordinate of the closest color coordinates in the conversion palette. The color coordin... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852349 | Image display method and image display apparatus There is described an image display apparatus that includes an image data processing section to convert (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data to a n-bit color display image-data group, based on a predetermined correlation, and a color image display section to display a... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843465 | Method and apparatus for mapping a multi-dimensional signal from one space to another space In a method of mapping data from a source space to a target space, a space transformation look-up table (LUT) that contains a plurality of locations storing information is maintained, wherein each of the plurality of locations includes information specifying a funct... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7821522 | Image processing apparatus and image display apparatus using same An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprising (a) a first signal processing circuit for applying gamma correction to an n-bit (n: a natural number) digital signal inputted as a video signal and for converting the n-bit digital signal into an m-bi... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821523 | Image display and storage apparatus, method and medium An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are d... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808510 | Image processing apparatus, image transmission apparatus, display, image processing method, and image transmission method An image processing apparatus, an image transmission apparatus, a display, an image processing method and an image transmission method, capable of suppressing tone or gray-level distortion before and after dithering as well as reducing and then increasing the number... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800629 | Image processing apparatus and method for preventing degradation of image quality when bit format of image is converted Provided is an image processing apparatus and method for preventing degradation of image quality occurring when a bit-format of an image is converted. When a raw image is converted to an image having specific color resolution, the image to be converted can maintain ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7777759 | Image processing apparatus and image display apparatus using same An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprising (a) a first signal processing circuit for applying gamma correction to an n-bit (n: a natural number) digital signal inputted as a video signal and for converting the n-bit digital signal into an m-bi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755640 | Gamma image correction method and device The invention discloses a gamma image correction method and device that employs an improved interpolating operation, comprising receiving an original image data point; retrieving p conversion values (p is larger than 2) from a memory unit according to the original i... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755639 | Image reproduction using a particular color space The image processing apparatus executes a prescribed basic color space conversion regardless of content of the color space identification information when a reduced image is a processing target. The image processing apparatus executes a specified color space convers... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746354 | Graphics display system with anti-aliased text and graphics 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, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The system may use anti-aliased text and graphi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7728846 | Method and apparatus for converting from source color space to RGBW target color space Systems and methods are disclosed to effect conversion of a three color primary image data set to a multiple color primary set in which one of the primaries is white. One method converts a three-color image data set comprising C1, C2, and C3 colors into a four-color... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7671872 | Method and apparatus for determining chrominance space A method for determining which one of regions in a chrominance space an input point belongs to. The regions are defined by boundary lines. The method includes generating in the chrominance space a first line, extending through the input point and the origin of the c... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667713 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus is provided with a process unit to carry out a resolution conversion process and an image division process with respect to an input image, and a control unit to control a division number of the image division process depending on a size... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7649539 | 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... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7633508 | Data transfer apparatus A reference-data storing unit stores reference data for determining whether to display image data by overwriting display data. A data converting unit converts the image data into display image data. A transparency determining unit determines whether a first pixel va... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7626593 | Apparatus and method for data transmission using bit decrease and bit restoration, and apparatus and method for driving image display device using the same An apparatus for transmitting an image data within a display device includes a data converter converting an N-bit data, N is a positive integer, into an (N−1)-bit data and concurrently generating a restoring signal; and a data restorer restoring the (N−1)-bit da... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7554556 | Color image processing device and color image processing method A color image processing device includes a pre-correction unit, a computation processing unit and a post-correction unit. The pre-correction unit includes a pre-correction circuit which carries out a pre-correction to reverse a highest-order bit of a pixel value on ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548246 | System and method for defining a controlled device command set A system and method for configuring a controlling device to allow the controlling device to generate commands for commanding operations of a new appliance which new appliance was previously unable to be supported by the controlling device. The system and method uses... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545386 | Unified mobile display emulator The conversion of Mobile Display information used in a wide variety of Mobile Devices into Unified Image Formats is disclosed to enable viewing on a desktop computer system in addition to manual and automated testing of Mobile Content. In order to support the variet... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7525552 | Method, system and software product for color image encoding The present invention relates to the compression of color image data. A combination of hard decision pixel mapping and soft decision pixel mapping is used to jointly address both quantization distortion and compression rate while maintaining low computational comple... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7515160 | Systems and methods for color preservation with image tone scale corrections Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for generating and applying image tone scale corrections with improved color fidelity. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7460131 | Methods and systems for processing image data for display on LC displays Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for processing image data for use on LCD displays. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7439985 | Liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) including an LCD panel and a driving unit is provided. The LCD panel has a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel. The driving unit is applied for receiving a red data signal, a green data signal, and a blue data signal, and output... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433102 | Reproduction color prediction apparatus and method A primary color dot gain correction unit corrects the spectral reflectance of each of a plurality of color agents on the basis of the dot quantity set for each color agent. An initial estimated value calculator estimates a mixed color by the KM theory using spectral... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427993 | Motion adaptive pixel boost with data compression and decompression A compressed pixel level for a pixel in a frame of an image is compared with the (compressed) pixel level for the same pixel in a previous image frame. If the pixel level is unchanged, then the pixel is not moving. An uncompressed pixel level is then used for that p... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423791 | Color conversion using barycentric projections A method and apparatus for interpolating values for a color space from an input color value. A unit hypercube enclosing the input value is generated based on values from a look up table. A set of boundary conditions are then imposed on the unit hypercube. To perform... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
