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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362368 | Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determine... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358983 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus for printing an image onto a recording medium based on input image data, comprises an electrostatic latent image carrier for forming an electrostatic latent image, and an exposure controller for forming the electrostatic latent image correspondi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355753 | Color saturation adjustment A method of adjusting primary color data values including producing color saturation adjusted primary color data values that depend on a relative amount of chroma in the initial primary color data values. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333153 | Expanded information capacity for existing communication transmission systems A system for transmitting digital programming includes a program source providing digital information, circuitry for modulating the digital information onto a visual carrier modulated with analog television programming, and a visual transmitter coupled to the modula... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333136 | Image processing apparatus for carrying out tone conversion processing and color correction processing using a three-dimensional look-up table When tone conversion processing and color correction processing is carried out on image data obtained by a digital camera, processed image data enabling reproduction of a high quality image can be obtained. A 3DLUT for carrying out the tone conversion processing and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327504 | Method of detecting clipped image pixels A method is described for detecting the clipped pixels of a digital color image. The method includes the steps of: (a) producing a uniformity map from the digital color image, where the uniformity map indicates locations within the digital color image that are subst... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317554 | Patch forming device When forming a test chart for investigating output characteristic relating to yellow color agent, a printer outputs yellow color agent in a plurality of densities that correspond to various density levels and also outputs cyan color agent in a fixed and maximum dens... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317815 | Digital image processing composition using face detection information A method of automatic or assisted recomposing of digital image processing uses face detection. Pixels that correspond to a face within a digital image are identified. A re-compositioned image is based on spatial or other parameters of the detected image, particularl... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315630 | Perfecting of digital image rendering parameters within rendering devices using face detection Within a digital rendering device, such as printers, hard copy and soft copy display, and copiers, rendering parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image rendering process using face detection within said rendered image to achieve one or more desi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7289154 | Digital image processing method and apparatus for brightness adjustment of digital images A method of calculating a brightness balance value for a digital image including a plurality of pixels, comprising the steps of: calculating a spatial activity measure in a plurality of local neighborhoods of pixels of the digital image, each local neighborhood incl... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283666 | Digital image exposure correction Techniques are disclosed for correcting the exposure of a digital image. An exposure predictor may be generated based on a set of images for which ground truth data are known. After identifying an optimal set of features, the exposure of the digital image may be cor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274632 | Optical head device and method for correcting spherical aberration On an optical disk in a recording and/or playback apparatus, the position at which the thickness error of a light transmission layer is in the optical axis of an objective lens 11, and the position at which the recording/playback of information is performed i... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269292 | Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first compression portion of the image including the group of pixels is dete... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268916 | Digital image sharpening system A system and method for sharpening a digital image (38) having one or more image parameters, for printing with one or more print parameters, and for viewing at one or more viewing parameters, the method comprising the steps of preparing sharpening radius info... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263240 | Method, system, and software for improving signal quality using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed for a desired number of pyramid levels. The decomposed signal from the lowest level is modified to generate a preprocessed signal. The preproc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259858 | Imaging apparatus having media sensing system A system for sensing imaging media along a transport path. System includes a light source positioned proximate to a selected location along transport path. A transducer in optical alignment with light source so as to receive light from light source after light cross... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242800 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, storage medium, and program In an image processing apparatus which can always provide an excellent processed image, an analysis unit analyzes condition information representing a condition at a time when an image is obtained and being included in image information, and determines an algorithm ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228004 | Method for sharpening a digital image A method of sharpening a digital image having image pixels values includes the steps of: determining a Dmin value, representing a value corresponding to a minimum possible exposure for a system that produced the digital image; for each pixel value in the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7221475 | Color image processing apparatus The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7202982 | System and method for selecting photographic images using index prints A method for remotely selecting and ordering photographic prints, includes the steps of: sending a photographic film bearing a plurality of latent images to a photofinisher; developing the photographic film to produce visible images and scanning the visible images t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195163 | Laser scanning unit A laser scanning unit to form an electrostatic latent image according to an image signal by projecting a light onto a photosensitive medium. The laser scanning unit has a light source having a cylindrical shape of a predetermined length; a reflective member surround... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181086 | Multiresolution method of spatially filtering a digital image A method of processing a digital image to improve tone scale, includes the steps of: generating a multiresolution image representation of the digital image including a plurality of base digital images and a plurality of residual digital images; applying a texture re... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175269 | Method and apparatus for detecting an image and its surface quality and forming a corresponding copy An apparatus detects image information ans surface quality of a subject image and for forms a copy with an image and surface quality corresponding to that of the subject. The apparatus generates image data and surface quality data, forms an image on a sheet based on... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7146041 | Method and apparatus for correcting white balance, method for correcting density and recording medium on which program for carrying out the methods is recorded The white balance correction method and apparatus estimate a color temperature of a photographing light source with which a color image has been taken by using at least gray and/or skin color information contained in an input color image and correct image signals of... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138785 | Power tool with means for obtaining product use information A charging apparatus for charging a battery comprising a current source for providing current to the battery, a controller connected to the battery and to the current source for controlling charging of the battery, and a memory connected to the controller for storin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139425 | Method and apparatus for correcting white balance, method for correcting density and a recording medium on which a program for carrying out the methods is recorded The method and the apparatus which correct white balance estimate, by using at least gray and/or skin color information contained in an input color image, a color temperature of a photographing light source with which the color image has been formed and correct an i... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136523 | Color correction table forming method and apparatus, control program and storage medium It aims to improve color reproducibility by enabling to control a smoothing condition for each of plural positions on color space. When a color correction table is formed by using smoothing, the smoothing conditions respectively corresponding to the plural positions... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133155 | Method and apparatus for modifying a portion of an image in accordance with colorimetric parameters A method and apparatus for modifying images. The method includes the steps of analyzing a digital image file of an image so as to identify at least one predetermined colorimetric parameter; and automatically modifying that portion of said image having said at least ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123289 | Image reading apparatus and method An image reading apparatus in which, in a case in which one of a recorded position of a leading image frame of a film or recorded positions of images successive from the leading image frame of the film, among a plurality of image frames recorded on the film, cannot ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119882 | Apparatus and method for projection exposure An apparatus for projection exposure which projects a pattern of a mask onto a work is provided. The apparatus has a base, a source of light, an optical system, a mask support mechanism, a work support mechanism and an alignment mechanism. The optical system constit... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116450 | System and method for selecting photographic images using index prints A method for remotely selecting and ordering photographic prints, includes the steps of: sending a photographic film bearing a plurality of latent images to a photofinisher; developing the photographic film to produce visible images and scanning the visible images t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113281 | Device for the pixel-by-pixel photoelectric measurement of a planar measured object The device for the pixel-by-pixel photoelectric measurement of a planar measured object includes projection means for the imaging of the measured object onto a two-dimensional CCD image sensor, filter means provided in the imaging light path for the wavelength selec... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113627 | Location of extended linear defects A method of locating a linear defect on a photographic element, the element having a useful imaging width and the defect aligned with length of the element, includes the steps of: exposing a region of the element to create a latent image which is substantially unifo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110597 | Correcting digital images using unique subjects A method and apparatus for correcting digital images is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a unique subject in a current image to be corrected is identified in one or more reference images. Pixel characteristics of the unique subject in the current image ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110020 | Film digitizer A method for producing electronic signals representative of images on a source film includes the following steps: illuminating the film with a light source to obtain an illuminated frame; providing an electronic image sensor; providing a lens array for projecting th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106887 | Image processing method using conditions corresponding to an identified person The image processing method applies image processing to an inputted image data. The method registers predetermined image processing conditions for each specific person in advance, extracts a person in the inputted image data, identifies the extracted person to find ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102785 | Profile producing method and profile producing apparatus There are disclosed a profile producing method and a profile producing apparatus for producing a profile in a device for mediating between image data including color data and a color image, such as a color scanner and a color printer. In the process of producing the... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092119 | Method, system, and program for managing calibration files in a printing system Disclosed is a method, system, and program for managing calibration files in a printing system. Patches are printed using a screening algorithm and incorporating at least one output appearance factor. A calibration file is generated from measured color values of the... | 08/15/2006 |
