Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7342695 | Information management device for printing apparatus and information management method An information management device 30 receives an object image to be retouched and printed and a specification of retouching to be performed on the object image as a retouching request from one of multiple printing apparatuses 50a and 50... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319542 | Document rehabilitation A method of document rehabilitation typically includes providing an original document having a set of desirable markings that are substantially achromatic, and a set of undesirable markings, and generating an image file that includes color data corresponding to the ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312899 | Apparatus and method for editing colors Disclosed is an apparatus and method for color-editing capable of simply carrying out color-editing spectral values, such as spectral reflectance, spectral transmittance, spectral radiance and spectral radiant intensity. When color-editing a spectral value of spectr... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7277589 | Image retouching method, apparatus, and program storage medium, image correcting method, apparatus, and program storage medium, and eye detecting and correcting method apparatus, and program storage medium The present invention provides an image retouching method including the steps of: detecting a local defect in an original image and distinguishing the type of the defect on the basis of image data representing the original image; displaying the defect detected at th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7256911 | Image retouching program Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher 11 converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7221464 | Image recording apparatus and test pattern for evaluating recorded image The invention concerns an image recording apparatus suitable for forming a medical image that is used for a medical diagnosis, and a test pattern for evaluating a quality of the medical image. The image recording apparatus includes a printing section to either the m... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7136191 | Method for inspecting prints The present invention relates to an automatic print inspection method in which photographic prints are scanned to obtain digitized images. The scanned digitized image of the photographic print is compared to digital image data which represents the original captured ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133160 | Method for screen-adaptive copy retouching A method for copy retouching digital image data which contains a periodic pattern, includes calculating a distance vector D1 from the initially defined starting positions of a read mark and a write mark. The image data are then copied from the image points lo... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7098944 | Image processing apparatus and method In converting image sensing data into image data, a plurality of image sensing data meeting a predetermined condition are processed as a group of image sensing data. An image reproduction parameter is obtained from this image sensing data group, and each image sensi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082211 | Method and system for enhancing portrait images A retouching method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image involves acquiring a digital image containing one or more faces and detecting a location of facial feature points in the faces, where the facial feature points include points identi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6999205 | Image projection systems A method of determining the location of an optical feature in an image projection system, the method comprising: 1) projecting a first image of the feature onto a detector with a lens in a first position; 2) sensing, with the detector, the position of ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6721446 | Identifying intrinsic pixel colors in a region of uncertain pixels A digital image that includes first and second regions is processed. An intrinsic color of a given pixel located in an area of interest that is adjacent to at least one of the first and second regions is estimated by extrapolating from colors of multiple pixels in o... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6587592 | Generating replacement data values for an image region Given an image with an unwanted feature, a collection of pixels (a defined region) entirely containing the unwanted feature is designated, and replacement data values for the defined region are generated, thereby healing the unwanted feature. A selected i... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6215912 | Image processing apparatus and recording medium An image processing apparatus for retouching a digital image by replacing a pixel value in a retouching range by a pixel value of a partial image at an initial position of a cursor, for example, by moving the cursor, and drawing the partial image at the c... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6061153 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method for performing color processes by using spectral characteristics values, namely, spectral information comprises an input unit to input image information shown by spectral information, a color processing unit to col... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6014471 | Apparatus and method for retouching a digital representation of a color image Apparatus and a method for semi-automatic retouching of digital images is provided. The method includes the steps of processing the digital image to obtain a list of candidate defect segments, computing statistics for a list of candidate defect segments a... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6008907 | Printer calibration A system and method for calibrating a printer includes the steps or functions of: printing a predetermined color test pattern with the printer by transforming data, representing said predetermined color test pattern, from a device-independent color space ... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5796874 | Restoration of faded images A method of restoring a color image comprised of one or more colorants and which image may have faded over time, which image is represented by an image signal. The method uses both a restoration model and provides a means which enable a user to readily in... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5751845 | Method for generating smooth color corrections in a color space, particularly a CIELAB color space Method for generating harmonic color corrections in a color image. The color image is deposited in an image store and is displayed on a monitor. Color samples of the colors that are to be subjected to a selective color correction are taken from the image ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5682443 | Image color modification method and apparatus employing unsharp masking A method and apparatus for modifying an image defined by data representing the colour component content of each pixel of the image. The method comprises, for each colour component of each pixel, (a) generating unsharp (U) and sharp (S) data and performing an u... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5609978 | Method for producing an electronic image from a photographic element A photographic element, is disclosed which includes a support and at least three silver halide emulsion layers, that records exposure information. The exposure information is recorded in three image-recording units and wherein the spectral sensitivities o... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5572607 | Method and circuit arrangement for electronic retouching of images A method and circuit arrangement for electronic retouching of color images is provided. The color signals of at least one color component acquired by pixel-by-pixel and line-by-line, trichromatic scanning of an original are digitized and stored as color v... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5394250 | Image processing capable of handling multi-level image data without deterioration of image quality in highlight areas An image processing apparatus, which stochastically binary-converts lower-bit data of a pixel of interest to improve image quality in a highlight portion, as well as in a low-density portion, is provided. In an image processing apparatus for quantizing mu... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5353126 | Image processor having an edit limiting function An image processor having edit functions and subjecting image data obtained by reading a document to an edit process and outputting the edited image data. The image processor includes an input section for inputting an edit instruction, a judgment section ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5296946 | Image processing apparatus with color conversion means There is provided a color image processing apparatus in which, by making use of an image reading apparatus of a digital full-color copying apparatus, the designated color to be obtained after conversion is input and stored as component ratio of color-sepa... | 03/22/1994 |
| 4893181 | Interactive image modification Apparatus for interactively modifying an image represented by digital data defining the color component content of pixels of the image, comprises an image store for storing the said digital data; a display; look-up tables defining retouch curves for each ... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4668980 | Video retouching systems A method and apparatus for retouching an image represented by color printing data in the form of a number of sets of input data, one set for each of the printing colors, is described. The apparatus comprises a source (1) of color component image data; a r... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4617592 | Video retouching system In a video retouching system having an image source (40), a refresh store (42) fed from the image source, and a monitor (46) supplied from the refresh store, an image modifier (44) is interposed between the refresh store and the monitor and is controlled ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4602294 | Image reproducing method having a retouching function and an apparatus embodying the same The method of obtaining a reproduced printed picture such as a separated color film, without the necessity for modifications typically associated with a retouching work for such prints. In accordance with the invention, data signals representing quantity ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4516155 | Method for partially smoothing retouch in electronic color reproduction A method for smoothing retouch in electronic color image reproduction employs a coordinate pen used by the retoucher as a retouch brush, to identify image point coordinates within an image point area. The color values associated with the image point coord... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4496968 | Reproduction of colored images In colored image reproduction, we have found that for the appearance of some self-colored objects (e.g. human flesh or plant leaves) to be satisfactory, when picture elements of the object are expressed in terms of luminance (L) and two chromaticity signa... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4486772 | Method and circuit arrangement for partial correction of the delineation in color image reproduction The invention relates to a method for improving the delineation in color image reproduction by means of a partial, electronic retouch. The color values of the individual color separations gained by means of image point-wise, trichromatic color image scann... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4476487 | Method and circuit arrangement for partial electronic retouch in color image reproduction The invention relates to a method for partial electronic retouch in color image reproduction. The color values of the individual color components gained by means of image point-wise, trichromatic color image scanning and digitization are deposited in a st... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4393399 | Method and apparatus for partial electronic retouching of colors Apparatus and method for electronically retouching color images reproductions in which the color signals are generated by means of scanning image point by image point and by trichromatic master scanning and then the signals are digitized and the digital c... | 07/12/1983 |
