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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189907 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and information processing program An object of the present invention is to support the user to create VDP data and use the VDP data to appropriately set a color profile to every object contained in the VDP data for printing, thereby reducing the burden of the user. The present invention an informati... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184901 | System and method for applying a reflectance modifying agent to change a person's appearance based on a digital image A computer-controlled system determines attributes of a frexel, which is an area of human skin, and applies a reflectance modifying agent (RMA) at the pixel level to automatically change the appearance of human features based on one or more digital images. The chang... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184900 | Automatic detection and correction of non-red eye flash defects A technique for detecting large and small non-red eye flash defects in an image is disclosed. The method comprises selecting pixels of the image which have a luminance above a threshold value and labeling neighboring selected pixels as luminous regions. A number of ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180148 | Imaging apparatus and method of forming composite image from a plurality of source images Source images, in particular images used for the planning radiotherapy, using internal images of the human body obtained with techniques such as X ray techniques, are processed to form a colored composite image that depends in a robust way on differences between dif... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175378 | Method and system for noise management for spatial processing in digital image/video capture systems A computer-implemented method for noise management in a digital image system measures noise levels of pixel data. The noise levels are adjusted with at least one of an intensity gain setting, a spatial gain setting, and a global gain setting to calculate noise adapt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170331 | Apparatus and method for pattern interpolation Apparatus and method for pattern interpolation are disclosed. Horizontally interpolated green, red and blue pixel values, and vertically interpolated green, red and blue pixel values are generated according to the pixels received from a pattern color filter. Subsequ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170332 | Automatic red-eye object classification in digital images using a boosting-based framework Automatic red-eye object classification in digital images using a boosting-based framework. In a first example embodiment, a method for classifying a candidate red-eye object in a digital photographic image includes several acts. First, a candidate red-eye object in... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165388 | Neutral pixel detection in an image path A system and method for pixel and object level neutral detection. An image is scanned into a plurality of pixels. A local pixel of interest is identified along with a neighborhood of pixels around the local pixel. The chroma value of the current pixel as well as the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165389 | Adaptive interpolation with artifact reduction of images An adaptive interpolation technique with artifact reduction is described that technique generates digital images with full-color RGB (red, green, blue) information, from raw pictures (e.g., Bayer-mosaiced single-color images) created by single-CCD digital cameras. T... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165390 | Image data processing device and image data processing method N-band image data are output from an N-band image capture device, being capable of N>4 multiband image capturing, to an image data processing device. An image data evaluation information provision unit provides a determination unit with evaluation information on the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155435 | Display apparatus and its control method An image display apparatus includes a display device for displaying an image on the basis of image data, and a detection unit which detects a size of a first color region of a predetermined color displayed on the basis of the image data, wherein pixels in the color ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155434 | Methods and systems for image enhancement Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for image enhancement. Some embodiments comprise color detection, color mapping and differential processing based on color characteristics. Some embodiments comprise tonescale processing. Some embodi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150147 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method, which can reproduce an edge portion with a high resolution in a high resolution raster image, and suppress image degradation such as a jaggy, while suppressing processing c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150148 | Method and apparatus for detecting preferred color and liquid crystal display device using the same Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for detecting a preferred color, which is capable of accurately detecting a preferred-color area with a small amount of computations, and a liquid crystal display device using the same. The method for detecting a preferred... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144977 | Method and relative device of color interpolation of an image acquired by a digital color sensor A method calculates statistical parameters in function of stochastic momentums of the pixel intensities of a same primary color or complementary hue of a first working window (2k+1)×(2k+1), and of at least a second working window of smaller size, both centered on t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139848 | Color signal processing device, image processing apparatus, color signal processing method, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal A color signal processing device includes a conversion unit that converts a first color signal into a second color signal. The second color signal is obtained by changing a color point, in a device independent color space, corresponding to a color of each color comp... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139849 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program There is provided an image processing apparatus for applying an adjusting process to an image including multicolor image signals. An image area including a pixel to be processed is extracted, and one representative signal value is generated from signal values corres... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131067 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable media for attaining image processing An image processing apparatus that receives mosaic image data having settings of only one color component, R, G, or B, in each pixel and subjects the received mosaic image data to a series of image processing to generate color image data with settings of all the thr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131068 | Image matching device and camera An image matching device includes: a dividing unit that divides a target image, contained in a search window set within an input image constituted with pixels each having a luminance component and a chrominance component, and a template image constituted with pixels... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121401 | Method for reducing enhancement of artifacts and noise in image color enhancement A method for enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is filtered using a spatial filter in such a manner that the lo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121402 | Color control of PDL CIE color A method for processing image data includes receiving image data including an assigned color space, comparing the assigned color space of the image data to a known color space, and processing the image data using the known color space in place of the assigned color ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116562 | Image processing including, but not limited to, logarithimic coding in color coordinate systems including systems with a coordinate defined by a square root of a quadratic polynomial in tristimulus values and, possibly, by a sign of a function of one or more of tristimulus values Color is edited using a color representation including digital values B (brightness), e and f such that B=√{square root over (D2+E2+F2)}, e=E/B, f=F/B, where DEF is a linear color coordinate system. Alternatively, color is represen... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116561 | Color processing apparatus and method A color processing apparatus includes an input conversion unit configured to convert input data expressed in an input device-dependent color space into data expressed in a device-independent color space, a determination unit configured to determine an attribute of t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116560 | Color processing method and apparatus A method for generating a color processing parameter used in color processing performed on an image captured by an imaging unit includes inputting data of an image captured by the imaging unit, inputting target data corresponding to the data, generating a pair of da... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111912 | Cost-effective image metadata creation using near-duplicate image detection Briefly, embodiments describe a method, article and/or system for determining image similarity. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111913 | Countermeasures against original background retrieval A device and method of modifying an image containing a foreground and an original or substitute background are disclosed. Boundary pixels contain only the original background or the original background and the foreground. The original background is replaced by a pre... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107724 | Method and system for predictive scaling of colour mapped images A method for scaling an original color mapped image are disclosed. The method performs steps of: transforming the original color map into the scaled color map based on the original color map and the original image independently of the scaled image; scaling the origi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103692 | Search system using images A search system using images is provided in which when a user does not know a relevant URL or search keyword correctly while surfing the Internet, he or she can search a desired website using only an image. The search system using images according to the present inv... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103092 | Determining whether a color is inside or outside a boundary surface of a color gamut What is disclosed is a novel system and method for quickly and accurately determining whether a color is inside or outside the boundary of a surface of a color gamut. The present method enables a gamut mapping algorithm to quickly identify points which require furth... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098930 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method, which can reproduce an edge portion with a high resolution in a high resolution raster image, and suppress image degradation such as a jaggy, while suppressing processing c... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098929 | Method and system for automatic correction of flesh-tones (skin-tones) Flesh-tones corrections may be performed to correct color shifts that may occur in transmitted video frames wherein chroma information corresponding to flesh-tone video pixels may be distorted. A target region may be determined based on a determined flesh-tones regi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094929 | Color identifying apparatus and color identifying method A color identifying apparatus for identifying the color of a reaction surface which has caused a color reaction with a gas to be specified, includes a reference data storage that stores a plurality of associated sets of reference color information represented by the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090197 | Image data analysis apparatus, image data analysis method, and program An image data analysis apparatus adapted to receive color image data having three components for every pixel, detect a color gamut as a range of colors the color image data represents in a predetermined color space, and determine a plurality of apexes defining the c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090196 | Album creating apparatus, album creating method and computer readable medium storing thereon program therefor To easily create an album with colors visually harmonized with images. An album creating apparatus includes: a main subject determining section for determining the main subject of an image; a color extraction section for extracting a plurality of colors included in ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086030 | Method and system for visually presenting a high dynamic range image Method for presenting an image, exhibiting a dynamic range, the method including the procedures of determining the dynamic range of the image, determining a color space configuration including more than one cycle of a color space, applying the color space configurat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086029 | Automatic image adjustment Automatic image adjustment is described, including performing a principal component analysis (PCA) for a plurality of values to determine a principal component, normalizing the principal component to obtain a normalized principal component, and generating an image b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073246 | Modifying color and panchromatic channel CFA image A method of modifying a CFA image or full-color image having a plurality of color channels and a panchromatic channel, includes capturing the panchromatic channel at a different exposure time than at least one of the color image channels with the CFA sensor within o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073245 | Card identifying apparatus A card identifying apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention has a light-receiving portion that reads a card on a pixel basis of a predetermined area as a unit including color information having brightness, RAM that stores image data comprised of a plur... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068666 | Method for reading test strips There is provided a method for identifying the color intensities of red lines on a white test strip. The method comprises the following steps: (A) attaching the white test strip to a card that is larger and darker than the white te... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064689 | Image processor, image-processing method, and computer-readable medium An image processor has: a unit that executes a conversion process on input image data represented by pixels of M grayscales (M≧3), to convert the input data into output image data represented by sub-pixels of two grayscales; and a unit that outputs the output data... | 11/22/2011 |
