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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174624 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An apparatus outputs an image signal for each frame, divides a frame into sub-frames, acquires a first signal of high frequency components and a second signal of low frequency components of a sub-frame, and generates a third signal by multiplying the second signal b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8134647 | Image processing method and apparatus The invention provides an image processing method and apparatus thereof. The white component data is extracted from the input R, G, B color data which are the base components of the input image data. A maximum value is extracted from the R, G, B color data and a par... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130325 | Luminance level control device A scene change detecting circuit (1) detects a scene change of video. An average luminance level operating circuit (2) calculates an average luminance level (APL) of a video signal (VD). A luminance overdrive amount calculating circuit (3) calcu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125570 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method Disclosed is a video processing apparatus including: a brightness adjusting part which adjusts the brightness of a whole portion of a received video signal according to a brightness adjusting value; and a brightness stretching part which calculates gradient values t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8004612 | Apparatus and method for controlling display brightness in an image display device An inputted picture signal is stored in an image memory into which a picture signal for at least one frame period can be written, while rewriting the memory. At a plurality of timings within one frame period, an average brightness calculation unit calculates an aver... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7982807 | Method for processing a backlight image and device thereof A method for processing an image includes inputting an image, generating a first mean luminance value and a second mean luminance value according to a plurality of pixels within a first luminance interval and a second luminance interval of the image, generating a fi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965342 | Video image display device and video image display method A video image display device is provided. The device includes an expansion factor deriving unit deriving and outputting an expansion factor for each frame of the video image data, for use in a luminance range expansion process for expanding a luminance range of the ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7948563 | Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting luminance Provided are an apparatus and method for automatically adjusting luminance, and more particularly, apparatus and method for automatically adjusting luminance per region in plurality of luminance regions of an image to be displayed according to its average luminance ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7852413 | Image display apparatus and control method thereof An image display apparatus that receives an input of a video signal and displays an image based on the video signal, includes: a copyguard detecting unit that detects whether or not the video signal is copyguarded; and a brightness adjusting unit that adjusts the br... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839457 | Display image correcting device, image display device, and display image correcting method A display image correcting device including, retaining section configured to retain reference correction amount data for correcting nonuniformity as a predetermined factor of an image displayed on a basis of a video signal, the reference correction amount data repre... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7719619 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus is provided that performs more appropriate black stretch processing to display a high quality video. The image processing apparatus includes a luminance characteristics detection unit that analyzes a received video signal to detect a fr... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7667777 | Enhanced image display A display device comprises a data input unit configured to convert an image signal to a color signal. The display device also comprises a brightness control unit operationally coupled to the data input unit, configured to extract a brightness level associated with t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643095 | Image display device, image display method, and television receiver An image display device controls a screen luminance to an appropriate value in response to switching of a display mode, thereby displaying each of television broadcast program images and graphic user interface images (including an electronic program guide, and a var... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7633558 | Display device capable of compensating for luminance of environments A display device capable of compensating for luminance of an environment is disclosed. The display device includes: a sensor, for sensing the luminance of the environment to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the luminance; a scaler, coupled to the sensor, f... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7602447 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an image A method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an input image is disclosed. Brightness level data of the input image is filtered to obtain at least a low frequency component and a high frequency component. The high frequency component is amplified. The input i... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7535516 | Data reproduction apparatus reducing power consumption of equipment reproducing video image and method of controlling the same There is provided a data reproduction apparatus reproducing an image and sound as based on data recorded in a storage medium. In the apparatus if an input device has received predetermined information and data selected to be reproduced is data excluding image data a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505085 | Apparatus and method for improving recognition performance for dark region of image An apparatus and method are provided for displaying an image. A process of human color recognition and a process of human color response are analyzed to find a reference brightness value of an image such that a dark region of the image can be correctly detected. A b... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7483084 | Image display apparatus and image display method In an image display apparatus, a video signal is divided for each field into a plurality of sub-fields, each of which is weighted according to the duration of time or number of pulses. The plurality of sub-fields are temporally superimposed for display, so that a gr... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7439984 | Image signal processing method, image signal processing apparatus, and image displaying apparatus An image signal processing method for performing nonlinear compensation on an image signal to be fed into a display device (103). The characteristics of nonlinear compensation are changed according to the brightness of a place in which the display device (... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428021 | Image processing method, recording medium and apparatus for performing color adjustment to image data using a brightness component, a low-frequency brightness component, and first and second parameters An image processing method aims to optimally improve a brightness distribution with respect to brightness of a face being a main subject of a person image. Thus, the method consists of: a brightness component extraction step of extracting a brightness component from... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7400363 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus for performing image processes corresponding to input signals of multiple types, includes a luminance correcting unit that performs correction process on an input signal so as to correct for display luminance, a luminance decreasing uni... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391475 | Display image generation with differential illumination A method of producing a display image comprises receiving image information representing an image to be displayed, producing an image formed of a plurality of images of different colors, and projecting the produced image along an optical path. The differently colore... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373074 | Video recording apparatus A video recording apparatus includes a tuner for receiving television broadcast waves, an intermediate frequency circuit for demodulating intermediate frequency (IF) signals outputted from the tuner into video signals, a video recorder for recording the video signal... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364304 | Projector control To automatically adjust the quality of a projection image commensurate with the performance in-time deterioration and aging of projector component parts in an image projection system, each projector detects an integrated service time of its own light-source lamp and... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352410 | Method and system for automatic brightness and contrast adjustment of a video source An image brightness and contrast management module for automatically adjusting brightness and contrast of an input video signal includes a histogram generation unit that generates a pixel luminance histogram based on pixel luminance values in a frame, whereby the hi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352352 | Liquid crystal display device and controlling method thereof The liquid crystal display device includes a histogram analyzer analyzing a histogram of an input image and determining the input image as being in one of a low brightness mode, a normal mode, and a high brightness mode based on the histogram analysis, a back light ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345713 | Video display apparatus for correcting luminance difference between display pixels An analog-to-digital converter converts a video signal into a digital video signal consisting of N bits and outputs the converted signal. A correction value memory stores correction data consisting of M bits which is used to correct the difference in luminance betwe... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327333 | Method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel A method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel, based on an input phase alternation line (PAL) video signal of 50 Hz. Video signal data include successive first and second sub-field groups. When the number of sub-field... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324165 | [Automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter] An automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter are disclosed. A spatial domain infinite impulse response filter is adapted to generate an output value of the spatial domain infinite impulse response fil... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7312834 | Image processor, semiconductor integrated circuit, and method for processing an image An image processor includes a luminance signal processor configured to execute an amplification by utilizing a gain set by a plurality of gain step-sizes including a first gain step-size and a second gain step-size less than the first gain step-size, to an image sig... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310449 | Image processing system, projector, computer-readable medium and image processing method An image processing system enabling luminance regulation depending on displayed images is provided by a projector, the projector including: a signal input section which input an image signal; a signal output section which outputs a corrected image signal; an image p... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310113 | Camera for automatically adjusting image brightness for an image on a display Image signals outputted from a CCD to an image signal processing circuit, which performs A/D conversion, YC signal processing to convert the image signals into video signals of NTSC or the like and outputs video signals after D/A conversion. A microcomputer receives... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7277135 | Video display signal brightness control circuit Video signal control circuitry for use in a video display system in which a variation in a brightness level of a video display signal causes a corresponding variation in a beam current signal, wherein such video signal control circuitry maintains a controllable vide... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268753 | Apparatus and method of controlling brightness of image Provided are an image brightness controlling apparatus and method, and an adaptive brightness controlling apparatus and method based on the brightness degree and/or brightness range of an image. The image brightness controlling apparatus includes a brightness increm... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265795 | Video signal processing circuit, video display apparatus, and video display method Embodiments of the invention provide a video display technique with which a stable video with a high contrast can be obtained according to brightness of a screen. In one embodiment, a video signal processing system for a video display apparatus which performs displa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259769 | Dynamic backlight and image adjustment using gamma correction Methods and apparatuses for the application of image intensity and luminance adjustment and gamma adjustment for the purpose of compensating perceived image brightness, and thus enhancing the range of display backlight brightness adjustment that may be applied to co... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245764 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus utilizing luminance histograms, and projector The invention provides an image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and a projector which determine a scene-change so as to perform an optimal tone conversion, luminance correction, or the like, for each scene of a moving image. An image processing app... | 07/17/2007 |
