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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7633555 | Method and device for automatic color correction A method and a device for automatic color correction by defining an operation window, a target window, and an active region bounded by the preceding windows so as to adjust chroma values in the active region. Correction of chroma signals is associated with a window ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7355654 | Character display control circuit A character display control circuit comprises a selection circuit to select and output, as one of the RGB signals, one of a first voltage, a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and one or more third voltages existing between the first and second voltages; a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339619 | Image pickup system and image processing program for performing correction on chroma signal A color signal of a primary color or a color signal of a complementary color is converted from a CCD to signals in a color space having an intensity, a hue and a chroma. Tone conversion is performed on a luminance signal. A chroma correction coefficient is calculate... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327382 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A method for converting a sequence of electronically captured images into a sequence of modified images for providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system. The film reproduction system being includes motion picture negative film printed on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7298379 | Luminance preserving color conversion from YUV to RGB This invention presents a YUV to RGB conversion method which preserves high precision of luminance information in an original YUV image signal when converting it to RGB signal. The method can be used to convert the original YUV signal to arbitrary quantization level... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7251357 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for setting background image When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and area ratio calculation means calculates a ratio of an area where a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242409 | Interpolated color transform for changing color of an application user interface A system and method for adjusting the color of an application user interface (UI). A UI allows a user to define hue and saturation values used to adjust first RGB values of pixels determining the color of the UI. A media player application (MPA) calculates second RG... | 07/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7167214 | Signal processing unit and liquid crystal display device A signal processing unit in a liquid crystal display device, etc., includes a brightness component appearance frequency measuring unit that measures an appearance frequency of each brightness component in a video signal; a parameter outputting unit that outputs a di... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7123308 | Video data correction capable of exactly correcting hue, chroma and/or luminance signal An angle calculation unit calculates an angle formed by color difference signals R-Y, B-Y of each input pixel. Correction gain calculation units use the angle as a parameter to generate correction gains of hue, chroma, luminance (Y) gamma, and chroma (C) gamma for o... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7092122 | Image processing device and method In order to achieve to adjust saturation of an image without leading to a deterioration in image quality, there is provided an image processing device and method in which a conversion data has a conversion characteristic which suppresses a change in saturation in a ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076099 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium The objective of the present invention is to provide a simple and accurate process for extracting an object from an image, which is used to impose a great load for an operator. According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises an object ext... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7034881 | Camera provided with touchscreen An electronic camera is provided with a touchscreen. When a cameraman touches the touchscreen on a principal subject in a captured image shown on the touchscreen, the touched portion is determined and the focus and exposure are adjusted in conformity with the princi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034862 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A sequence of electronically captured images are converted into modified images providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system, where the film reproduction system is of the type that includes a motion picture negative film printed onto a m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034867 | Digital camera A digital camera includes an LCH conversion circuit. The LCH conversion circuit detects an L component value, a C component value and an H component value from each of pixel signals forming an image signal of an object being photographed. A plurality of reference L ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7015924 | Display apparatus and image encoded for display by such an apparatus In a system for storing and displaying images, such as in a personal computer or mobile telephone, a display apparatus is provided which selectively displays virtual reflections of the real environment according to mirror values encoded with the stored image. A came... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015977 | Special effect image generating apparatus employing selective luminance/chrominance condition setting A special effect image generating apparatus provided with an image conversion processing circuit for posterization or other image conversion, a luminance and chroma condition setting circuit for image extraction by luminance and colors, a mask pattern generator for ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995793 | Video tap for a digital motion camera that simulates the look of post processing A sequence of motion images, captured by an image capture system such as a digital camera, are converted into a sequence of modified motion images providing the appearance of motion images captured by the same capture system and subsequently rendered in a post-proce... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992729 | Video processing method and device A video processing method comprises the steps of dividing an entire input data region into three of first, second and third regions in order from the low level side thereof; setting, as an output data characteristic to input data, a trapezoidal characteristic which ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980219 | Hue angle calculation system and methods Systems and methods are disclosed to calculate the hue angle of image data. One system includes at least one input channel, an octant determining unit, an angle determining unit, and an angle offset unit. Each input channel receives chroma components of image data. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6950097 | Video display interface controller for host video display unit A video display interface controller for a host video display unit in which control signals multiplexed with component video signals are extracted and routed according to included address information. Control data associated with one or more local addresses is used ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944335 | Image data processing with color modification A method of modifying image data in which image colors are to be modified, including a first step of initializing a color vector function, in which color vector is a function of luminance, and then the following repeated steps. A user defines a luminance range (6... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6927877 | Image processing method and apparatus for converting colors in a color image A color image signal is generated and an arbitrary color in the color image signal is set as a color to be converted. A color after conversion is designated. The color to be converted or a color similar to the color to be converted is converted into the color after ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6903782 | System and method for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image There is disclosed an apparatus for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image. The apparatus comprises: 1) an input buffer for storing video frames of an incoming video signal; 2) a segmentation controller capable of segmenting a first stored frame... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6795083 | Color enhancement of analog video for digital video systems A method and system enhances the color of an image by manipulating the chrominance and/or luminance signals of the image. Specifically, a color enhancement system sharpens color changes for better picture quality on digital display systems. In one embodiment of the ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6690826 | System and method for detecting text in mixed graphics data A system and method for identifying whether sample values of pixel samples in a sample region have two or fewer different sample values represented, such as in graphics data representing text images. Identification is performed by hierarchically dividing ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6661907 | Face detection in digital images The present invention discloses the detection of faces in digital images. Rather than subjecting the entire image (1) to computationally intensive face detection analysis, the image is instead segmented into regions (2) each of which has a substantially h... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6580433 | Automatic reverse method for reversing the black-and-white monochrome image, and printer unit using the same The objective of this invention is to provide an automatic reverse method for reversing and displaying the black-white image into the white-black image under the predetermined condition, and a printer unit using the same method, specially a printer unit u... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6563531 | Image processing method The image processing method of the invention for subjecting image data which is obtained by reading an image on a film photoelectrically to specified image processing, which comprises the step of: acquiring film characteristic of said film; and correcting... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6476793 | User interactive copy processing for selective color conversion or adjustment without gradation loss, and adjacent non-selected-color areas are not affected A more-natural-looking video is reproduced and a video data having a desired color tone is formed by preserving the tone of a video as an original in color conversion at a desired ratio. To this end, a criterion color register stores color information (hu... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6476820 | Video image display apparatus and method A signal Y outputted from a Y/C separating circuit is supplied to first and second matrices. Signals R-Y and B-Y are supplied to the first matrix through a gain control amplifier (GCA) and are also supplied to the second matrix. The signals Y, R-Y, and B-... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6462783 | Picture encoding method and apparatus A picture recording method for recording original picture data encodes the original picture so that the entirety of the original picture is displayed at its original resolution on a television monitor after being decoded. The method involves first scaling... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6441869 | Systems and methods for color specific hue control Image systems and methods adjust hue angles of one or more colors in an image. The adjusted image may be output to a printer for printing. An image quality control is provided to allow a user to select one or more specific colors whose rendition is unacce... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6407777 | Red-eye filter method and apparatus A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. The dig... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6400371 | Television signal chrominance adjustment The invention provides an improved method and system for presenting color television signals. Television signal chrominance values for foreground elements are adjusted in response to television signal chrominance values for background elements, so as to m... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6285410 | Method and system for removal of flash artifacts from digital images A method and system for removal of flash artifacts from a digital image containing pixels therein, including using a database of reference flash-corrupted images for identifying corrupted pixels within the digital image that have been corrupted by a flash... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6226040 | Apparatus for converting video signal Apparatus for generating at least a selected area in a picture is disclosed herein. The picture and the selected area are displayed on a video display means, and the user can optionally adjust the position and size of the selected area. The apparatus incl... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6191823 | Analog/digital color video apparatus and method for adjusting attributes of a color video signal using digital signal processing An analog/digital color video apparatus for adjusting attributes of a color image contained in an analog video signal and a digital video signal and visually displaying an attribute-adjusted color image on a display is provided. When an attribute of an an... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6181384 | Image converting apparatus and image converting method An image converting apparatus for converting an image of an input video signal into an image with a metallic luster and representing the metallic luster with parameters designated corresponding to the input image. The apparatus is based on the concept tha... | 01/30/2001 |
