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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339627 | Method and system for automatic detection and display of aspect ratio Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for automatic aspect ratio detection and may comprise scanning lines in at least a selected portion of an image and locating a first reference pixel in one of the scanned lines. A corresponding... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327384 | Gamut false color display A gamut error false color display uses false coloring on a monochrome image of a video picture being tested. Composite and component gamut error signals are extracted from an input video signal representing the video picture being tested. Such error signals may repr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7294817 | System and methods for determining nonuniformity correction parameters in detector-array imaging An imaging system (110) for imaging a scene with a detector array (104) having an array of imaging elements is provided. The imaging system (110) includes an image estimation module (202) for generating a plurality estimates of uncorrupte... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7242379 | Image display apparatus, driving circuit for image display apparatus, and image display method An image display apparatus includes an image display member having a plurality of light-emitting portions, electron-emitting devices for emitting electrons and causing the light-emitting portions to emit light in accordance with an input image signal, and an adjustm... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236304 | Imaging Device There is provided an imaging device which is small in light loss, is operable to suppress an occurrence of a stray light, and is operable to provide an image with a high quality as far as a periphery thereof. The imaging device operable to output an image of an obje... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224372 | Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems Methods and systems for selecting different anti-aliasing filters to be applied to objects of image data rendered with pixel sub-component precision based on the attributes of the objects of the graphics image. For example, when rendering a character traditional ant... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215383 | Coherent light despeckling A display device or a receiver device for use with coherent light. A controller applies phase shift values to a multi-region phase array at a frequency sufficiently higher than the flicker fusion rate of the human eye or other intended receiver in order to remove th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209180 | Video output device A video output device adds a blank on both left and right sides or both upper and lower sides of an input video to produce a video having the same aspect ratio as that of the display screen of the display device, when an aspect ratio of the input video and an aspect... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203344 | Biometric imaging system and method A method and system of obtaining a ten-print plain impression fingerprint includes scanning a print image, processing the scanned image, separating the processed image into individual fingerprint images, and determining how many print images have been scanned. The m... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202894 | Method and apparatus for real time identification and correction of pixel defects for image sensor arrays An image processing system and method compares each pixel of an image obtained from an image sensor array with at least eight surrounding pixels of the same color in the filter array. If the signal of a given pixel is larger than the respective signals of all eight ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184098 | Cyclic data signal averaging system and method for use in video display systems A system and method for reducing periodic intensity variation in a video image includes applying input signals representing video image data to multiple circuit components by sequentially shifting the input signals through the circuit components to produce output si... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7158110 | Digital image processing device A low-cost digital image processing device constructed by using a simplified circuit is provided which is capable of reducing an amount of data of an image to be stored in a frame memory and of being applied to a display panel with a desired level of a resolution. I... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148933 | Projector having alignment optics and electronics A projector employing a linear array of light-emitting sources forms a super pixel in the form of a plurality of beams that are focused onto scanning optics that cause the beams to move across a viewing surface on a first axis for defining image lines along the firs... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129992 | Method and system for video display with automatic reframing A system and method are provided for displaying a video composed of images each comprising a predetermined number M of lines and, a predetermined number N of pixels in each line. Values of a predetermined number P of reference pixels for each line of a current image... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7084911 | Black level calibration method for imager with hysteresis comparison and adaptive step size The present invention provides a method and apparatus for calibrating a black level in an imager to reduce flicker noise. A first and a second range is set. The first range corresponds to a range that is larger than a noise level at a highest PGA gain. The second ra... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075569 | Image processing apparatus for performing shading correction on synthesized images A digital camera which is an image processing apparatus is controlled so that a first image and a second image are acquired for the same subject in different timings. A plurality of correction tables for use in shading correction are prepared in advance in a shading... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068328 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for image processing The sense of contrast perceived by a viewer of an image is quantified and adequate image processing is carried out on image data based on the sense of contrast. Contrast-sense quantification means generates unsharp image data of the image data and then generates a h... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068845 | Information processing apparatus using class-classification adaptive processing A class synthesizing circuit classifies an aimed-at data item into one of a plurality of classes specified in advance, according to a plurality of data items disposed around the aimed-at data item. A coefficient holding and class-code selection circuit stores conver... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061537 | Adaptive deflicker method and adaptive deflicker filter An adaptive deflicker method for use in converting a non-interlacing scan data into an interlacing scan data is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a non-interlacing scan data, wherein the non-interlacing scan data includes plural scan lines, proce... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6970207 | Anti-flicker filtering process and system A process of filtering digital images to reduce image flicker. An anti-flicker filtering is performed after a step of calculating the image and before a step of displaying the image so that the flicker is filtered as soon as the image is created. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963674 | Image sensing device, image processing apparatus and method, and memory medium An image sensing device of this invention corrects sensitivity nonuniformity of an image sensing element. This image sensing device has an image sensing element (5) having a two-dimensional matrix of pixels, a first multiplier circuit (18) for multiply... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963999 | Source coding to provide for robust error recovery during transmission losses A method and system are described for a multiple level shuffling process of a signal that provides for robust error recovery. A signal is defined as multiple levels wherein each level comprises a frame, a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of bits. In one embodime... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963373 | Image processing apparatus which reduces noise by adjusting the transition timing An image processing apparatus which eliminates noise which occurs due to the influence of output from a parallel bus drive circuit added to an output final stage circuit of signal processor or the like. A delay circuit 110 which delays a video signal is inser... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958785 | Method and apparatus for determining and correcting for illumination variations in a digital projector The need is met according to the present invention by providing a method of correcting pixel by pixel variations in a display, the method including the steps of creating a defect map of pixel intensity offsets for the display; correcting an input signal according to... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950114 | Apparatus for compensating for luminance level of video signal A luminance level compensating apparatus passes only the luminance signal of a pixel in a first detection range in the vertical direction of an image indicated by an input luminance signal, detects and stores a first frequency for each luminance level of the passed ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947018 | Image display apparatus, driving circuit for image display apparatus, and image display method An image display apparatus includes an image display member having a plurality of light-emitting portions, electron-emitting devices for emitting electrons and causing the light-emitting portions to emit light in accordance with an input image signal, and an adjustm... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6933982 | Method and apparatus for fast robust estimation of image noise in a video processing system A method and apparatus for determining an image noise estimate value in a digital video processing system using only a single video image. In the method and apparatus, SAD values in the video image are calculated. For each SAD value, a determination is made as to wh... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930729 | Apparatus and method for deleting sawtooth wave An apparatus and method for processing a video signal, and particularly, an apparatus and method for deleting a sawtooth wave are provided in which a sawtooth wave component is detected and with consideration of direction the sawtooth wave is deleted. The sawtooth w... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6912017 | Display device for displaying digital input image data using different filter segments for the lower and higher order bits There is disclosed a display device using a color wheel having a color filter Cw, in addition to normal color filters corresponding to the three primary colors. The filter Cw has almost flat spectral transmission characteristics. Brightness information included in a... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912313 | Image background replacement method An image's pixels are initially segmented into pixels of the image foreground and background by comparing the pixels of the image to updated models of background reference pixels. Pixel structures are identified in the image. The probability that a pixel is in the b... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6859493 | Apparatus and method for the recovery of compression constants in the encoded domain The system and method of the present invention provides an innovative technique and efficient hardware structure for recovering lost or damaged (lost/damaged) compression constants in the encoded domain. In one embodiment, a lost/damaged compression constant is reco... | 02/22/2005 |
| RE38574 | Method and apparatus for reducing visibility of damping wires in aperture grill display tubes A method and apparatus for reducing visibility of damping wire artifacts in aperture grill display tubes comprises a sensor device for locating the artifacts and responsively generating amplitude values, a processor for receiving the generated amplitude values and r... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6768518 | Method and apparatus for removing a checkerboard-like noise artifact from a captured composite NTSC video frame A wavelet domain filtering technique is disclosed that removes or at least minimizes checkerboard-like noise artifacts that result from capturing a composite NTSC video signal. A Haar basis filter bank is used to obtain a two-level wavelet decomposition. Low-pass fi... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6741666 | Device and method for transforming a digital signal A method and a device by which original digital signals are analysis-filtered, where the original digital signals include original samples representing physical quantities, and where the original samples are transformed by successive calculation steps into high and ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6737625 | Bad pixel detection and correction in an image sensing device A sensor includes an array of photodetectors each generating an output signal of pixel data indicative of incident light intensity. This pixel data is read out from the array one line at a time and stored in a line buffer. A bad pixel processor includes a first buff... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6650372 | Dynamic change of flicker filter A method and apparatus for providing a flicker filter for an interlaced video display. Content is analyzed to determine what type of filter or filter characteristics selected from a plurality of available filters or filter characteristics can provide the ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6559895 | Analog memory and image processing system for reducing fixed pattern noise Fixed pattern noise of an analog memory is reduced. Transfer paths of an address selection signal (SL) between an address generation unit (10) and respective storage elements (21) for storing an analog signal are constructed to have a substantially unifor... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6535617 | Removal of fixed pattern noise and other fixed patterns from media signals A method of removing fixed pattern noise derives an estimate of fixed pattern noise from a composite media signal and uses the estimate to evaluate and remove fixed pattern noise from selected frames. The technique is particularly suited for removing fixe... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6493039 | Method and apparatus for white noise reduction in video images A method and system for reducing white noise in images. The method does not require knowledge of the image blur or noise statistics, and can remove noise without causing excessive image blur. The image is separated into frequency bands which are then thre... | 12/10/2002 |
