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Class 348/268 - Color sequential


Subclass of Class 348 - Television
Definition: Subject matter including a device to decompose colors of
No. of patents: 32
Last issue date: 05/06/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7369181Method of removing noise from digital moving picture data
Provided is a method of removing noise from digital moving picture data reducing the number of frames used in a temporal filtering operation and able to detect motion between frames easily. The method comprises a method of spatial filtering, a method of temporal fil...
05/06/2008
7352373Systems 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
7348993System and method for obtaining accurate image content
A method and system for allowing a computer system platform the ability to create image content is provided. Captured image data of an original image is received and information corresponding to colorimetric points is measured. Automatic determinations are made as t...
03/25/2008
7333156Sequential colour visual telepresence system
For implementing an anthropomorphic visual telepresence system with high resolution and low loop latency a sequential color video loop is provided. A sequential color camera sequentially captures color images, each captured image consisting of a portion of a single ...
02/19/2008
7330209Digital still camera system and complementary-color-filtered array interpolation method
A complementary-color-filtered array interpolation by first interpolate each color subarray so each pixel has four colors and then adjust each color at a pixel with addition or subtraction of a color imbalance factor for the pixel. For yellow and cyan the adjustment...
02/12/2008
7292724Image processing apparatus and image processing method
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus on which an image forming engine for forming a full-color image by using color materials corresponding to data of color tones on the basis of C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), and K (black) data is mounte...
11/06/2007
7209142Image 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
7193537Interlaced sign bit coding
Like type bits are grouped into continuous runs and thus are modeled and processed as a group. This allows entire groups of bits to be skipped by coding passes to which the coefficients do not belong. Furthermore, by using the context of a bit by looking at the sign...
03/20/2007
7116378Color-balanced brightness enhancement for display systems
A technique for providing a desired level of color balance in field sequential color systems with brightness enhancement. In color wheels having a spectrally-broad transmissive segment, the spectrally-broad segment has a transmittance that is selected to provide a d...
10/03/2006
7080058Managing dynamic device color profiles
Device information is extracted from a graphical object's data file to dynamically generate a profile suitable for processing by a color management system. In one embodiment, the graphical object is an image and the graphical object's data file is generated by a dig...
07/18/2006
7071979Image sensing apparatus and method
An image sensing apparatus senses an image by illuminating a document by a light source including three light emitting diodes which emit light of red, green, and blue so that the light reflected from the document is incident on a sensor array which in turn generates...
07/04/2006
7053953Method and camera system for blurring portions of a verification image to show out of focus areas in a captured archival image
In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for using a display having a predetermined display resolution to show out of focus areas in an archival image having a greater resolution than the predetermined display resolution. In this method, a verifi...
05/30/2006
7046221Increasing brightness in field-sequential color displays
A display system includes a display panel having an array of pixels, the pixels having ON states and OFF states. The pixels form images by modulating light in a temporal sequence during an image frame in response to drive signals generated from incoming video data. ...
05/16/2006
6963668Method and system for fast image correction
Compressed image files are partially preprocessed to expedite color correction and delivery of color corrected images. Color correction may be accomplished by processing only the luminance channel, only the color channels, or a combination of the luminance and color...
11/08/2005
6870564Image processing for improvement of color registration in digital images
A method for improving the wavelength dependent registration of digital images includes the steps of (a) detecting a similar feature in two or more digital records of the same scene, (b) determining from the feature a shift due to misregistration of at least one of ...
03/22/2005
6812058Reference data coding in solid state image sensors
Data is encoded in a solid state image sensor that includes a sensor pixel array by varying the color processing applied to at least some of the border pixels of the sensor pixel array. Data may be encoded in the color processing by varying the pattern of a color fi...
11/02/2004
6791527Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method for the liquid crystal display apparatus
A liquid crystal display apparatus principally includes a liquid crystal display device which comprises a pair of electrodes and a liquid crystal and is driven in a succession of frame periods by applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes, a light source capable o...
09/14/2004
6697109Method and system for field sequential color image capture
A method of field sequential color image capture includes optically capturing a scene; filtering the scene through an active color filter to product first color components, thereby modifying the spectral transmission of the scene as a function of time; de...
02/24/2004
6690422Method and system for field sequential color image capture using color filter array
A method of field sequential color image capture includes: optically capturing a scene frame-by-frame; filtering the scene through an active color shutter to produce a first color component set having plural first color components therein; detecting the s...
02/10/2004
6677959Virtual true color light amplification
A method is provided for enhancing a digital image without distortion of the color. The result is an adjusted image which preserves the essential color of each and every dot in the input digital image while varying the effective light gathering power--lik...
01/13/2004
6456414Sequential color scanner
A sequential color scanner capable of generating both two and three dimensional moving color images has only one x- and y-deflection channel. The system includes first, second, and third optical signal generators for generating a first, second, and third ...
09/24/2002
6002452Sequential color display system with spoke synchronous frame rate conversion
A sequential color display system (10) suited to receive data (20) at different rates without discarding or filtering video data. The mismatch of bandwidths between the input source video data and the output sequential color display is accommodated by ret...
12/14/1999
5818525RGB image correction using compressed flat illuminated files and a simple one or two point correction algorithm
A memory efficient system of storing color correction information for liquid crystal tuning filters when used with electronic imaging cameras to produce color images, which color correction information is stored with maximum possible gain to optimize accu...
10/06/1998
5781665Apparatus and method for cropping an image
A method and apparatus for cropping an image in digital form. The image to be cropped is represented as a first digital array which is operated on by an edge enhancement transformation to generate a second, binary digital array wherein edges of the image ...
07/14/1998
5754228Rapid-sequence full-frame CCD sensor
A CCD sensor structure adapted for backside illumination, has a wide depletion layer separating the illuminated surface from potential barrier-like structures, e.g., in the form of a series of p-wells, that shield portions of the CCD channels and that cau...
05/19/1998
5748236Color mixing prevention and color balance setting device and method for a field-sequential color television camera
A device and method provides high-speed processing in a color television camera without color mixing and achieves a color balance. The device comprises a color filter for color separating the light from the object being photographed, a solid state imaging...
05/05/1998
5654756Image pick-up apparatus having color space converter and/or shield disc with slit
An image pick-up apparatus, wherein a light emitting device sequentially emits a plurality of colors of light to a subject, a mono-color image pick-up element photo-electrically converts light reflected by or transmitted through the subject into color-fie...
08/05/1997
5548333Color mixing prevention and color balance setting device and method for a field-sequential color television camera
A device and method provides high-speed processing in a color television camera without color mixing and achieves a color balance. The device comprises a color filter for color separating the light from the object being photographed, a solid state imaging...
08/20/1996
5406331Digital camera for recording color images
A method of operation for a digital color camera permits the rapid accumulation of three basic color images that can be combined into a full-color reproduction. The scene to be captured is focused through a blue filter onto the active array of a conventio...
04/11/1995
5315393Robust pixel array scanning with image signal isolation
Methods and apparatus for propagating robust scanning signals in pixel addressing operations in a pixel-to-pixel sequence that produces a predetermined pattern of alternating colors in an image signal so that a single channel, sequential color signal is g...
05/24/1994
4584606Image pickup means
Image pickup means which incorporate means for logarithmically converting the incident light intensity, for controlling the light intensity issued with a plurality of varied intensities, and performing electrically the controlling of throttling of light i...
04/22/1986
4383170Image input device
An image input device is disclosed including an image source which generates an image light and a light sensor facing the image source. The image light is divided into a number of components by an image dividing device. The light sensor contains a number ...
05/10/1983
 
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