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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189080 | Orientation-based approach for forming a demosaiced image, and for color correcting and zooming the demosaiced image A method and apparatus for forming a demosaiced image from a color-filter-array (“CFA”) image is provided. The CFA image comprises a first set of pixels colored according to a first (e.g., a green) color channel, a second set of pixels colored according to a sec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7868936 | Multispectral image capturing apparatus A multispectral image capturing apparatus has different spectral sensitivity characteristics of at least four bands. Three primary bands of the at least four bands have spectral sensitivity characteristics of standard RGB. At least one auxiliary band of the rest of ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7333156 | Sequential 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 |
| 7154545 | Image scanner photosensor assembly with improved spectral accuracy and increased bit-depth Photosensor assemblies have, for each color, multiple line-arrays of photosensors. For each color, the spectral bandwidth received by each line-array is different. The additional spectral bandwidths are used to improve the spectral measurement accuracy, and to incre... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7057654 | Four color image sensing apparatus An imaging camera apparatus (20) for capturing images electronically and providing output data for four separate color channels, red, green, blue, and a fourth saturated primary color, expanding the color gamut over conventional three color channel cameras. A... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7042506 | Solid state image pick-up system A solid-state image pick-up system according to the present invention comprises an image pick-up lens for making incident light from a subject form an image on an image pick-up surface, a light source alternately emitting a plurality of color light beams at a given ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027073 | Virtual cameras for digital imaging A method of digital imaging, the method implemented through use of a virtual camera, wherein the virtual camera includes automated computing machinery operating under software program control, wherein the virtual camera includes a user interface, the method includes... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6977674 | Stereo-image capturing device A stereo-image capturing device includes an on-chip color filter attached CCD, a photographing optical system, and an aperture disk. The on-chip color filter includes red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color filters, so that the CCD senses images in R, G, and B colors... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6181778 | Chronological telephone system A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6054832 | Electronically programmable color wheel A display system using red, green, blue, and white light. The system derives data for the white portion of a color wheel or a white device from the red, green and blue data. The white portion of the color wheel is controlled as if it were another primary ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5905479 | Coloring device with rotary filter and detection sensor mounted on the drive motor rotor A coloring device for use, for example, in a color image display device, includes a rotary filter rotated by a motor and includes color filter sections of the three colors which pass over the screen of a monochromatic display device in a predetermined seq... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5592221 | Photographic camera with rotatable filter assembly having interchangeable filter disks and charge-coupled surface sensor A photographic camera (1) includes a back part (8) attachment that houses a charge-coupled surface sensor (9) and an associated filter system (11 and 13-17). The filter system includes a plurality of filters (13-16) positioned on a carrier (11). A motor (... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5555106 | Single pass line scanning of an image with a color filter wheel having a plurality of filters A method and apparatus for digitizing color images on photographic and other media insures accurate registration between color planes and provides a digitization capability substantially equivalent to the dynamic range of photographic film.... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5424543 | Imaging spectroradiometer A spectroradiometer images a scene as a repeating sequence of spectral images, each of which spectral images depicts the scene at a preselected wavelength. In a preferred embodiment, the image is of size 256 by 192 pixels, and the sequence repetition rate... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5101266 | Single-scan time delay and integration color imaging system An electronic imaging system develops red, green and blue images of a document in a single pass of the document through the system. The system includes an image sensor which has three time delay and integration (TDI) sensor arrays. Each sensor array is co... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4967264 | Color sequential optical offset image sampling system The system of the present invention increases the resolution (number of picture elements or pixels) of an image that may be formed from an image sensor without increasing the resolution of the sensor. The system operates upon a color image beam using a se... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4922333 | Video copying apparatus spectrally-responsive to slides or negatives Video copying apparatus generates a color sequential video signal from originals having different spectral characteristics, such as photographic slides and negatives. The apparatus includes a color filter wheel with a plurality of color filters that are s... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4878109 | Unsynchronized multispectral video filtering system with filter identification sensor within field of view and video signal responsive A video system for exposing a video camera to a field of view through a sequence of different filter elements. A position detection system is employed in order to identify which filter element is in the field of view without requiring synchronization betw... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4656508 | Measuring endoscope A measuring endoscope for making three-dimensional measurements of a object without using a special lattice and without hampering direct observation of the object. The measuring endoscope includes a light supply source for supplying illumination, and an i... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4404585 | Video sequential color system An improved single element sequential color system processes luminance information as high resolution signals and chroma information as low resolution signals. The system requires relatively much less data storage capacity than conventional systems. Seque... | 09/13/1983 |
| 3969763 | Color television camera provided with a pick-up device and a color filter placed in front thereof A field-sequential color television camera provided with a pick-up device formed with a number of read strips to be read simultaneously along and in front of which filter strips of a color filter move. An output of the pick-up device supplying output sign... | 07/13/1976 |
