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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965302 | Gamma conversion system The invention provides a Gamma conversion system applied on a source of image pixel data. Each image pixel data in the source of image pixel data has an M-bit pixel value with a first Gamma exponent. The Gamma conversion system comprises a storage module, a processi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7471300 | Progressive data delivery to spatial light modulators In a spatial light modulator, a frame may be broken up into a plurality of colors. A given frame may include at least a first portion and a second portion. During the first portion of the frame, more significant bits of the data for a given pixel may be displayed an... | 12/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7400329 | Graphics images system and method A system for 3-dimensional gaming on a mobile handset is provided. The system includes a converter component operable to convert a pre-rendered 3-dimensional graphic image having 24-bit color resolution to a 3-dimensional graphic image having 16-bit color resolution... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395180 | Efficient translation of data from a two-dimensional array to a wedge Systems and methods are provided for drawing a wedge from an array of data. An angular reference table contains a plurality of angle values. An angle sampler samples a subset of angle values for a given arc of a plurality of arcs that will constitute the wedge from ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379073 | Method of restoring RGB gray scale data and apparatus for performing the same A method of restoring RGB gray scale data for maintaining a sharpness of a screen and reducing a size of a memory is disclosed. The RGB gray scale data having M bits are truncated to generate a first RGB gray scale data having N bits, M being a positive integer and ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7365723 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a signal controller having a luminance controller receiving image data from an external graphic source and controlling the luminance of the image data such that the luminance at the gray expressed by a specific data value of the ima... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358975 | Texture-based packing, such as for packing 8-bit pixels into one bit A method and system for rendering three-dimensional graphics, including text, provide a compressed texture bitmap. The texture bitmap may represent multiple symbols, each comprised of multiple pixels. Each pixel in the texture bitmap may store information for more t... | 04/15/2008 |
| RE40201 | Video signal converting apparatus and display device having the same Disclosed is a video signal converting apparatus and a display device having the same which may convert a low-resolution video signal from a host into a different-resolution video signal capable of being displayed on the entire screen of a high-resolution supporting... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350028 | Use of a translation cacheable flag for physical address translation and memory protection in a host A host coupled to a switched fabric including one or more fabric-attached I/O controllers. Such a host may comprise a processor; a host memory coupled to the processor; and a host-fabric adapter coupled to the host memory and the processor and provided to interface ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342607 | Mathematical calculation method for an image capturing device A mathematical calculation method for an image-capturing device includes steps: estimating a green value of a red, blue pixel; calculating four differences between an estimated red value and four neighboring green pixels, weighing proportions of the four neighboring... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327874 | Method of and apparatus for image processing apparatus, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes a first calculating unit that calculates a first feature amount from a color image signal, a first processing unit that processes the color image signal based on the first feature amount to generate a processed signal, a compre... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317940 | MRT apparatus, method and computer program product for determining the speed of a flowing medium In a method for automatic determination of the actual speed interval of a flowing medium in flow measurements in magnetic resonance imaging, an overview image (localizer) is acquired displayed on a screen, a scout flow measurement is performed by acquiring an image ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317437 | Graphic controller for active matrix addressed bistable reflective Cholesteric displays A graphics controller for a color display system having a bistable liquid crystal display (LCD) for displaying a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix includes a memory device for storing color data and status bits corresponding to each of the pixels, and a gener... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312776 | Apparatus set in a liquid crystal display for executing gamma correction and method thereof An apparatus set in a liquid crystal display (LCD) for executing gamma correction is disclosed. The gamma voltage signal is for inputting to a pixel. The digital pixel signal is an M-bit binary signal. The gamma correction executing apparatus includes a pixel signal... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283113 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display A method and apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display device that is adaptive for preventing a deterioration of picture quality. More specifically, a method of driving a liquid crystal display includes dividing input data into most significant bit data and leas... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266255 | Distributed multi-sample convolution A multi-chip system is disclosed for distributing the convolution process. Rather than having multiple convolution chips working in parallel with each chip working on a different portion of the screen, a new design utilizes chips working in series. Each chip is resp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256789 | Programmable display device It comprises a main CPU, a main memory for storing the programs, display data and other data, a data processing circuit for performing a processing to convert the display data in the main memory to the data format for the display, a display memory section for storin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233339 | Method and apparatus for performing dithering A method and apparatus for dithering may provide filtering M bit data and performing a temporal/spatial compensation based on LSB of the filtered M bit data. The dithering may be performed on a selected frame. M-2 bits of the M bit data may be specified as a referen... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233342 | Time and voltage gradation driven display device To provide a display device which is capable of multi-gradation display without complicating the structure of a D/A converter circuit. Of m bit digital video data inputted from the external, upper n bit data is used as voltage gradation information and lower (m−n)... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230631 | Image input unit and image input method The invention is characterized by the fact that an area sensor for outputting an analog signal responsive to the light reception amount of light of CMYG is used and when CMYG image data is converted into RGB image data, RGB image data having a domain also in negativ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227552 | Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium In an image processing apparatus, color balance adjustment information are inputted on the basis of a user instruction, and the brightness of RGB image data having red, green, and blue components is detected. A generation portion maps the image data on a two-dimensi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227524 | Image display apparatus and method An image processing apparatus, for processing an image signal representing pixel values of pixels so as to display an image including the pixels by an image display apparatus, includes a detection section for detecting a low frequency portion of the image signal, wh... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7209142 | Image display method and an image display apparatus for implementing the method The image display method and apparatus display a monochromatic image with a color display device in which a unit pixel is composed of R, G and B cells and display the monochromatic image having a higher gradation resolution than reproduction performance of each of t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193622 | Method and apparatus for dynamically changing pixel depth An electronic device (108) includes a display panel (126) and a display controller (124) for controlling the display panel (126). A plurality of data lines supplies image data to the display panel (126). The data lines include data... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193594 | Display device An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which enables multi-gray scale display without complicating the structure of D/A converter circuit. The measure taken to achieve the object is to use n bit of information among m bit digital vi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190408 | TV-receiver, image display apparatus, TV-system and method for displaying an image A TV-receiver 220 for receiving and decoding a broadcasted TV-signal representing an image and control data. The control data defines a vector indicating a location of a partition of important subject matter within the image. In addition an image display appa... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7164397 | Discrete light color processor Methods and apparatus for use with a discrete bit display system such as a DLP® display system for increasing brightness by using secondary light bits (such as spoke bits that are otherwise wasted). The light available from the secondary bits is distributed over th... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159172 | Display for rapid text reading A display system uses so called rapid sequential visual presentation (RSVP) in which words are presented one after another in time, in a window for reading by a user. To provide context information, a thumbnail view of the document page or the section of text is als... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155067 | Adaptive edge detection and enhancement for image processing The present invention improves image quality by detecting and enhancing edges in an image. Images often include blurry or fuzzy edges that can obscure an image. An edge is a portion of an image separating two regions of substantially constant image intensity. An ima... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148868 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a signal controller for processing image data, the signal controller including... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136062 | Scalable multiparty conferencing and collaboration system and method of dynamically allocating system resources and providing true color support in same A networking conferencing and collaboration tool utilizing an enhanced T.128 application sharing protocol. This enhanced protocol is based on a per-host model command, control, and communication structure. This per-host model reduces network traffic, allows greater ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129956 | Variable bit field color encoding A compact image element encoding format selectively allocates a bit field within the format to alternately encode either multi-bit alpha resolution or increased color resolution. This encoding technique may be advantageously used to allocate encoding bits to model s... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126611 | Dithered quantization using neighborhood mask array to approximate interpolate Methods and image forming systems for approximating the value of a function given specified values of input data using a sparse lookup table. Individual samples are quantized and rounded up or down to an adjacent lattice point of the lookup table. Rather than perfor... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126614 | Digital, hardware based, real-time color space conversion circuitry with color saturation, brightness, contrast and hue controls A hardware-based circuitry for digital processing for color saturation control circuitry, brightness control circuitry, contrast control circuitry, and color hue control circuitry, some or all of which can be added to the luminance/chrominance (Y/C) signals to the r... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123277 | Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format In a first embodiment, a method of converting a source pixel data of a first format for a display of a second format having a plurality of three-color pixel elements comprises determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in the source pixel dat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119813 | Variable bit field encoding A compact image element encoding format selectively allocates a bit field within the format to alternately encode either multi-bit alpha resolution or increased color resolution. This encoding technique may be advantageously used to allocate encoding bits to model s... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116318 | Backplanes for display applications, and components for use therein A display pixel unit provides reduced capacitative coupling between a pixel electrode and a source line. The unit includes a transistor, the pixel electrode, and the source line. The source line includes an extension that provides a source for the transistor. A patt... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113223 | High resolution color conforming A method, system and computer program product for color conforming video material at a given resolution is provided. The given video material is first converted to a lower resolution version of the same material. Then a color corrected version of the lower resolutio... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110010 | Apparatus and method of video signal processing for matrix display apparatus A video signal is processed using dither coefficients. Dither coefficients pattern signals are generated. Each pattern signal carries positive and negative dither coefficients arranged in an (n×m) matrix where “n” and “m” being positive integers larger than... | 09/19/2006 |
