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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7961257 | Color adjusting apparatus, display apparatus, printing apparatus, image processing apparatus, color adjustment method, GUI display method, and program A color adjusting apparatus includes a first storage unit for storing information indicating a hue (color phase) range arbitrarily designated in a hue space, a second storage unit for storing an adjustment value for adjusting a degree of color shift in the hue range... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7911540 | Tone conversion apparatus, image display apparatus using the same, and tone conversion method In a tone conversion apparatus, a decision-processing section sequentially detects a signal level difference between pixels of an image in a predetermined direction thereof by using the image signal having a first number of bits, determines whether the signal level ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903178 | Color management unit A color management unit is architected to achieve higher-quality appearance used in various video formats and to enable improvements in picture contrast and colorfulness. The color management unit comprises an optional input color space converter to convert the inpu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894001 | Hue adjusting system and method thereof The present invention provides a hue control system for adjusting a hue of a specified color. The system includes a hue determining circuit and a hue adjusting circuit. The hue determining circuit receives a plurality of color signals of the specified color and a pl... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7834936 | Blue stretch using restricted color range and soft transition boundary System and method for increasing the blue component of white and near white pixels while avoiding hard transitions and without affecting flesh-tone colors. Pixels that are bright enough and fall within a detection area in the UV-plane have their blue components incr... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7746411 | Color management unit A color management unit is architected to achieve higher-quality appearance used in various video formats and to enable improvements in picture contrast and colorfulness. The color management unit comprises an optional input color space converter to convert the inpu... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7460181 | Blue stretch using restricted color range and soft transition boundary System and method for increasing the blue component of white and near white pixels while avoiding hard transitions and without affecting flesh-tone colors. Pixels that are bright enough and fall within a detection area in the UV-plane have their blue components incr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7423696 | Concurrent luminance-saturation adjustment of digital images Brightness of a plurality of pixels in a digital image is adjusted directly in a luminance-chrominance color space. Luminance and saturation are adjusted concurrently without changing hue of the pixels. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408558 | Laser-based display having expanded image color A method for displaying a color image by providing a color image display apparatus having at least three narrow-band emissive light sources that define a display color gamut. Image data values are accepted that are defined within an original color gamut that is smal... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405771 | Method and device for independent color management The present invention discloses a method and a device for independent color management by using a look-up table (LUT) so as to adjust the color saturation of a single color independently. The method comprises steps of: receiving a color signal of an input pixel; det... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397588 | Generation of hue slice table for gamut mapping A table representing a color gamut for a device for use in a color management system where colors are represented in a color appearance space comprises data representing a collection of hue slices through a boundary surface of the color gamut. The collection of hue ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382415 | Color correction processing circuit by each hue The object of the present invention is to provide a color correction process designed for enabling all the hues in the image properly corrected without leaving any uncorrected range; the inputted image data represented by the combination of 3 color signals is divide... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369073 | Microscopy system and recording method for visualizing fluorescence An image sensor and a circuitry associated with the image sensor is used for recording a series of fluorescence images. The image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels for accumulating charges generated by incident radiation, and the circuitry converts the charges ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362861 | Methods and apparatus for protecting information content Methods and apparatus for protecting copyrighted information, e.g., video signals, from unauthorized copying. Analog red (R), green (G) and blue (B) video signals are transmitted from a source device, e.g., a display adapter, to a display device, e.g., a monitor, ov... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355611 | Method and arrangement for improving image quality on a display of an imaging device In the method and arrangement, a value of at least one image parameter of a liveview scene that is displayed on an imaging device display is determined. Based on the determined image parameter value, compensation value for the image parameter is determined, and the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352409 | Blue stretch circuit and level detection circuit A blue stretch circuit of this invention has a first voltage detection circuit and a second voltage detection circuit, each of which detects that an amount of each of the first and the second color difference signals are within a predetermined range, a blue stretch ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348992 | Apparatus for and method of color compensation An apparatus for color compensation includes a chroma deflection generation unit to calculate a chroma deflection based on an input chroma signal and a predetermined first reference value, a hue deflection generation unit to calculate a hue deflection based on an in... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339707 | Method and system for viewing a fax document A system and method for viewing a fax document includes a fax device which may be configured for transmitting/receiving fax transmissions. When a transmitting fax device with a video camera and a video display transmits a fax transmission to a receiving fax device w... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327876 | Image processing device An image processing device includes: a color coordinate conversion device which converts color coordinates of a color signal which has been obtained by color separation; and a two dimensional look up table which is used for correcting a chromaticity signal which has... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327372 | Color correcting parameter calculator, image color correcting device, method of calculating color correcting parameters, and program therefor In a color correcting parameter calculator, a color correcting unit 11 calculates a target color by executing color correction processing of an input color on a reference side while a reference side color perception value calculator unit 13 calculates ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324118 | Super imposed image display color selection system and method An optimal pen color is automatically selected for a given background color based upon a predetermined relative distance in the Munsell color-order system. The predetermined distance is defined in terms of saturation, hue and or lightness. In general, sufficient vis... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319483 | Digital automatic white balance device A digital white balance device is simply implemented in a digital processing scheme by employing a grey world algorithm. In the device, a timing controller receives vertical and horizontal synchronization signals of an input image and produces a timing control signa... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312800 | Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color profile indicating parameters of the color space of the video source i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304766 | Method and apparatus for data adjustment A method includes obtaining a first value corresponding to a first location in a first color space and obtaining a second value in a second color space using the first value. The method further includes converting the second value to a third value in the first color... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305126 | Photo dazzle color temperature correction A method for calculating and adjusting the color temperature of an image includes calculating an average color temperature and adjusting the chromaticity of each pixel of the image according to the average color temperature. The adjustment may be linear across all p... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289164 | System and method for color palette conversion from TV unsafe to TV safe colors The system and software of the present invention presents a process for translating a source palette containing TV unsafe colors into a resultant modified palette containing only TV safe colors, while preserving the color trends in the source palette. The software w... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283142 | Color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts A color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts is disclosed. The display can include a plurality of a sub-pixel group. The sub-pixel group can have a plurality of sub-pixels wherein each sub-pixel has a height along a vertical axis and a width ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274383 | Arrangement of color pixels for full color imaging devices with simplified addressing A three-color pixel element for a display comprises a blue emitter disposed at the origin of a rectangular coordinate system having four quadrants, a pair of red emitters and a pair of green emitters spaced apart from the blue emitter and symmetrically disposed abou... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270461 | Backlight unit and liquid crystal display utilizing the same A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display. The backlight unit in a liquid crystal display includes a light source having a plurality of basic cell structures. Each basic cell structure consists of three unique colors of first, second, and third light emitting di... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259798 | Image compensation apparatus The present invention provides an image compensation apparatus, by which a hardware structure is simplified and by which resolution of a remanded color gamut is enhanced when an inputted digital image is compensated to fit the characteristics of a display device. Th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253845 | Color non-uniformity correction for LCOS A method (400) and a system (100) for providing video signals to video displays includes the steps of receiving at least one input video signal (150), dithering the non-uniformity color correction (445), applying the non-uniformity color ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251057 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a CCD imager. When a display-use UYV signal is generated on the basis of an RGB signal of an object image photographed by the CCD imager, a CPU detects a color saturation degree of the RGB signal and reduces dynamic range of a U signal and ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248288 | Signal processing apparatus and method for reducing jaggedness on color image edge and image sensing apparatus having same In a signal processing apparatus for processing an image signal, a hue difference between adjoining pixels is detected by a color image edge detector, and an aperture control main gain circuit amplifies a luminance signal using a gain determined on the basis of the ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239422 | Color gamut mapping using a cost function A method of generating a reduced color gamut boundary for a color output device using three or more colorants, wherein the amount of each colorant is controlled by a colorant control signal vector, including determining a forward device model for the color output de... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231085 | Color image signal processing method for correcting hue turn and color image outputting device and imaging device A chromaticity diagram is divided into a plurality of sections by a primary color line and a complementary color line of a color that does not cause hue turn, then it is decided to which section a color signal being output from an imaging device belongs, and then a ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224833 | Method for fast color saturation control A method for a fast color saturation control of digital color images using one color saturation factor has been achieved. Said method can be performed in any color space having three primaries as e.g. the R-G-B or in the CMY color space without the requirement to co... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215366 | Tone correcting circuit and hue correcting circuit There are provided hue detecting means for detecting a hue component for each pixel from a first color difference signal R−Y and a second color difference signal B−Y, and gain controlling means for controlling for each pixel a gain for arbitrarily selected one o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215449 | Anti-clipping color-image correction Computer-based, anti-clipping, pre-printing, color-image correction via virtual color-parameter controllers that are provided within the graphic user interface of a print drier. Parameters accommodated include Red, Green and Blue offset, Lightness offset, Gamma and ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7199823 | Method and apparatus for improving live view performance of an image pickup apparatus for a microscope There is disclosed an image pickup apparatus for a microscope, comprising a photometry section for acquiring a photometry value corresponding to a brightness of an observed image, an exposure calculation section for calculating a reference exposure time based on the... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199839 | Color signal processing device for multi-primary color display and method thereof A color signal processing apparatus for a multi-primary display with a simple circuit construction and a color signal processing method achieves a display white by more than four display primaries. The color signal processing apparatus has a tristimulus value calcul... | 04/03/2007 |
