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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7760405 | Apparatus and method for integrating print preview with data modeling document editing A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to supply, in an editor mode, a first set of data modeling objects in a document. A user request to enter a print preview mode is accepted. The print preview mode is entered while the editor mode re... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7436545 | Method of forming image, image forming apparatus, and program for carrying out the method If an ink for a particular color (for example, red) having an excellent color developing characteristic is used in addition to inks for three primary colors of subtractive color mixture, the high color reproducibility is to be maintained for a long period. To accomp... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430061 | System and method to eliminate clipping during color conversion A color enhancement system with variable color saturation addresses issues of clipping of an output image by analysis and application of color correction to individual pixels. Encoded image data is received, and the elements are converted from a color space represen... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7400763 | Smart erasure brush Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matchi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7396097 | Printing control method, printing control apparatus, medium on which printing control program is recorded The conventional print-controlling apparatus performs printing with CMY inks and additional inks having a lower lightness than CMY inks, which are mixed in a specific ratio when ejected from the print head, so that colors in the entire range from low to high lightne... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373403 | Method and apparatus for displaying measurement data from heterogeneous measurement sources A system to collect heterogeneous scalar measurement data over a network from a plurality of devices connected to the network, and normalize the collected heterogeneous scalar measurement data based on a mathematical transform of collected scalar measurement data in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352893 | Representing extended color gamut information A computer-readable medium of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that has a data structure stored thereon to represent extended color gamut information for a pixel. The data structure has a number of data fields, where each data field is to store a number ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333670 | Image sequence enhancement system and method Motion picture scenes to be colorized are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined separately into single frame representations of multiple frames which becomes a visual reference database... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321448 | Color proofing method and apparatus, and recorded medium on which color proofing program is recorded In a method for improving the color reproducibility of printed matter to be produced by a printing press in proof print produced by a proof press, a look-up table containing converted values of image data over the entire color space with respect to the proof press i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319547 | Color printer calibration A method of determining substrate and ink compatibility includes providing a test pattern having a range of ink loading levels and including test features corresponding to at least one of text and graphics; identifying a substrate; identifying an ink set; printing t... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315394 | Calibration method for an imaging device A method includes forming a plurality of test patches in an array of orthogonal rows. The test patches are formed by using at least one printhead in an imaging machine. Each of the test patches is associated with a respective one of a plurality of initial input colo... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295705 | Image processing apparatus and method When one viewing condition parameter is applied to all pixels, a visual effect between a single color and a background expressed on a rasterized image cannot be reflected on a color matching result. To prevent this, when color matching using a human color appearance... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274489 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus One processing section 131 executes a process of generating image data K representing a black image on the basis of the image data Y, M, and C, and sequentially executes a process of removing elements of the black image contained in the image data Y, from the... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7239740 | Image processing apparatus and method, medium storing program for image processing, and inspection apparatus In a gray level image, the direction and the magnitude of a level gradient are found for each of pixels. With respect to the pixel having a level gradient whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined value, a line segment having a predetermined length is drawn in the dir... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7212239 | Device and method for image pickup which corrects data for the picked-up image An image pickup device includes a CCD which picks up an image of a subject, and a front end process or which corrects data for the picked-up image by a light quantity distribution correction table for correcting the data for the picked-up image based on a light quan... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212311 | Image processing condition setting apparatus and image processing condition setting program storage medium There is disclosed an image processing condition setting apparatus for determining an image processing condition defining contents of an image processing to set up the image processing condition to an image processing apparatus for executing the image processing in ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209245 | Printing systems, softwares, and methods for user characterization of unknown printer media Printing systems, softwares and methods permit an untrained user to characterize unknown printing media. A printing system includes a printing device that prints on a medium according to settings. The printing system also includes an interface, and a controller for ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206099 | Media/screen look-up-table for color consistency In an image rendering system, a method of compensating for system performance changes related to image attributes includes rendering a diagnostic image, sensing at least one image quality from the diagnostic image, updating an image attribute compensation tone repro... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206445 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for image processing A color and a tone of an image object included in an image are changed to a color and a tone desired by a user. A storage means stores reference image data representing reference images of different colors and tones, and the user selects a target image having a desi... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196816 | Method of applying trapping conditions Trapping conditions including trapping parameters and trapping areas are established for the image of a certain page displayed on a display unit through an input device. Another page is specified to which the trapping conditions thus established for the image of the... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7177047 | Gamut-preserving color imaging A color imaging technique includes setting a target value in a device-independent first color space and mapping the target value to a substantially complete point set in a second color space. The point set may include a plurality of points, each of which define subs... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158271 | Image processing apparatus R, G and B signals read by a 4-line color CCD sensor are converted into C, M and Y color signals. A black-and-white signal is generated from a luminance signal read by the 4-line color CCD sensor. Densities of the C, M and Y color signals are converted on the basis ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7135641 | Data cable with cross-twist cabled core profile Cables including a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors and a jacket surrounding the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors, the jacket including a plurality of protrusions extending away from an inner circumferential surface of the jacket ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136187 | Color correcting relation extracting method and color correction method There are disclosed a color correcting relation extracting method capable of extracting a know-how of an image formation by a camera man, and a color correction method of reproducing the know-how. A color of a patch of a color chart is measured to obtain a colorimet... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7113307 | Color correction definition producing method, color correction definition producing apparatus, and color correction definition producing program storage medium There is produced a color correction definition for reproducing a suitable color correction common to a plurality of types of images. A color correction definition producing apparatus has a receiving section for receiving a plurality of LUTs (color correction defini... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099025 | Printing system, printing control method and apparatus printing data in accordance with updated condition information When an engine unit of a printing apparatus issues a calibration request, a controller unit of the printing apparatus stores correction data in a storage unit. Upon printing, a data controller checks if the correction data is stored in the storage unit. If the corre... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7088856 | Method for quantization of histogram bin value of image A method for quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image or video, and more particularly, a method for non-uniform quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image (or video) according to the frequency of color occurrence is provided. The methods ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7062088 | Variable lossy compression Methods and apparatus for generating a compressed image from a source image by compressing the source image using a dictionary based lossy compression algorithm that regionally varies the amount of information loss from the source image based on regional image quali... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050196 | Color printer calibration The present invention addresses the quantification of a printed tone scale for each individual color in a printing system, developing a linear tone scale derived in an independent color space and referenced from the shade of the unprinted substrate. The present inve... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031022 | Color management method and apparatus for printing press In a color management method for a printing press, a color chart formed from a plurality of patches is printed by multi-color printing using the printing press and a plurality of ink colors. Each of the patches has a predetermined combination of dot area percent of ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027157 | Calibrating a first color printing technology based on color differences with a second color printing technology A method of an embodiment of the invention is disclosed that outputs a first color calibration target using a first color printing technology onto media that has a second color calibration target already output thereon using a second color printing technology. The c... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027663 | Masking tool A method and system of masking comprising: positioning a masking tool over a masked portion of an image; applying an effect onto the image outside the masked portion; and dynamically moving the masking tool while applying the effect wherein the masked portion change... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7016080 | Method and system for improving scanned image detail Methods are provided for generating a dynamic image mask for improving image detail in a digital image. An electronic representation of an image is scanned. A dynamic image mask is generated from the electronic representation of the image. The dynamic image mask has... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6972869 | Mapping color to colorant amounts when colorants have similar hue A method for mapping a color specification to colorant amounts when a first and a second colorant have a similar hue involves the division of portions of color space into regions. Colors of the similar hue are rendered with a first colorant, a second colorant or a b... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970595 | Method and system for chroma key masking A method for chroma key masking including for a given pixel color, calculating a quadratic function of the pixel color coordinates based on a prescribed chroma key color, the quadratic function corresponding to an ellipsoid in a color space, generating a substantial... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6916078 | Inkjet proofing with matched color and screen resolution One general aspect of the invention provides for creating half-tone ink-jet proofs on print-enhanced sheets based on an effective image cell pitch that substantially matches a cell pitch used to create press plates. Print process variables can be adjusted for the in... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912065 | Color quality printing using several application stations for applying the same color An apparatus and a method for making a digital color proof of an image on a surface of a receiving substrate, the apparatus including a plurality of application stations for imagewise applying each a specific type of marking particles to the surface of the receiving... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6891638 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus which is set to receive data in the RGB format cannot directly receive image data in the YMCK format although a print process is finally done in the YMCK format. In this embodiment, when RGB data is input from a host computer, re... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6826304 | Reducing halos in spatially dependent gamut mapping A method and apparatus for color image processing using gamut mapping reduces halo artifacts by correcting terms in a gamut mapping algorithm. The color image may be represented by f, the in gamut image by g, the target gamut by C, and the gamut constraint by c. The... | 11/30/2004 |
