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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189949 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method There are provided with an image area setting unit which causes each pixel included in a photographed photograph-image to be a correction target pixel in order, and sets an image area including the correction target pixel and plural pixels existing near the correcti... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189951 | Video signal display device, video signal display method, storage medium, and integrated circuit A technical problem is to inhibit variation in the correction between frames of a moving image while maintaining a correction amount of the overall image. The video signal display device has an attraction point determination portion (104), a corrected center ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189950 | Image enhancement method using local gain correction The present invention relates to a method for image enhancement. The method includes the steps of: replacing a value of a pixel of a digital image with a maximum one of values of red, green and blue sub-pixels of the pixel; selecting a specific pixel from pixels of ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184925 | System for converting a photograph into a portrait-style image The invention relates to a method of transforming a photograph of a person into a portrait. The disclosed method involves manipulating a photograph using software in order to alter the appearance of the photograph. Following the alteration of the photograph, the ima... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184924 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program An image processing apparatus including: an information amount calculation unit which reduces an image signal obtained by a CCD, and which performs a plurality of tone conversion processes of different characteristics on the reduced image signal to calculate an info... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175409 | Coherent image selection and modification A method includes receiving a selection input to define a selection mask with respect to digital data. The selection input is used to generate the selection mask with respect to the digital data. An icon is automatically associated with the selection mask, the icon ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175410 | Illumination normalizing method and apparatus An illumination normalizing apparatus and a method are disclosed. The illumination normalizing apparatus measures a discontinuity of each pixel of an input image, the discontinuity including a spatial gradient and a local inhomogeneity, produces a weight of each pix... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170364 | Image processing method, image processing device, and image processing program An image processing method includes the steps of: obtaining image data formed by signals of a plurality of pixels expressing a color image; discriminating a photographic scene of an image from the image data; determining a gradation correction method based on a resu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165416 | Automatic gain and exposure control using region of interest detection A region of interest may be determined using any or all of sound source location, multi-person detection, and active speaker detection. An weighted mean may be determined using the region of interest and a set of backlight weight regions, or, only the set of backlig... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165418 | Image processor In an image processor, a reduced image forming unit forms a reduced image by reducing an original image. The reduced image peripheral average value generating unit generates a peripheral average value for each pixel of the reduced image. The reduced image reflectanc... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165417 | Visual processing device, visual processing method, visual processing program, integrated circuit, display device, image-capturing device, and portable information terminal The invention provides a visual processing device that has a hardware configuration that does not depend on the visual processing to be achieved. A visual processing device 1 is provided with a spatial processing portion 2 and a visual processing porti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165419 | Histogram stretching apparatus and histogram stretching method for enhancing contrast of image A histogram stretching apparatus and a histogram stretching method are disclosed to enhance image contrast by stretching a histogram of an input image within a range of a preset maximum expansion level and a preset minimum expansion level. The histogram stretching a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160383 | Tone correcting apparatus providing improved tone correction on image A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines which one of first brightness levels that are previously defined a focused region corresponds to, the focused region being selected from among a plurality of block regions that are set ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155474 | Method, medium, and system compensating shadow areas An image compensating system, medium, and method, including, a shadow area compensating system, medium, and method which may significantly increase the luminance of each pixel in a dark area with respect to pixels positioned in the vicinity of the corresponding pixe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155475 | Method and apparatus to facilitate transforming grayscale level values An image processing apparatus (800) partitions (101) an image into a plurality of blocks. For a selected one of these blocks, the apparatus then uses a given available range of grayscale level values to determine (102) grayscale level values for... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150201 | Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program with pixel brightness-change detection and value correction An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image input unit receives a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image. An image analysis unit detects a brightness-change pixel in which a brightness change has occurred during a photog... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150202 | Gaussian mixture model based illumination normalization for global enhancement A method is presented for enhancing an image from an initial image, comprising computing a first luminance level frequency distribution corresponding to plurality of pixel constructing said initial image, representing said first luminance level frequency distributio... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150203 | Liquid-crystal-driving image processing circuit, liquid-crystal-driving image processing method, and liquid crystal display apparatus In a liquid-crystal-driving image processing circuit that encodes and decodes image data to reduce the frame memory size, the present invention has the object of providing a liquid-crystal-driving image processing circuit capable of correcting image data accurately ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145007 | Image processing of regions in a wide angle video camera A system and method for providing privacy regions in a picture or video. In one example embodiment, a camera is provided which has a lens system and detector, image processing circuitry, compression and formatting circuitry, and control circuitry. Images or video ta... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139891 | System and method for structure enhancement and noise reduction in medical images A method and system for structure enhancement and noise reduction of medical images using adaptive filtering is disclosed. The method utilizes feature estimation methods to determine multiple feature values for each pixel in an input image. Each pixel is then filter... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131108 | Method and system for dynamic contrast stretch Aspects of a system and method for processing an image are presented. The method may comprise stretching contrast of an input image based on a distribution of luma values for the input image and a distribution of luma values for a desired output image. The pixels be... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131110 | Reducing signal overshoots and undershoots in demosaicking An image processing method that demosaicks a mosaic input image to generate a full color output image. The image processing method calculates both vertical and horizontal luminance-chrominance difference components for each pixel of the mosaic input image. Next, the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131109 | Image processing method and apparatus for contrast enhancement using intensity mapping Provided are an image processing method and apparatus for enhancing contrast. The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether contrast enhancement processing should be performed on an input image; an intensity mapping unit that g... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126285 | Tone correcting apparatus providing improved tone correction on image A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires first brightness information indicating brightness of each of a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of an image; a face detecting unit that detects a face portion ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111942 | System and method for optimizing camera settings There is provided an electronic system including an image capturing device and a comparator coupled to the image capturing device. The image capturing device is operable for capturing a live image. The comparator generates a feedback signal by comparing the live ima... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111940 | Image correction apparatus and method, and image correction program Which types of subject among a predetermined plurality of types of subject are contained in an image represented by input image data are detected. Features regarding the detected subject types are calculated in a feature calculating circuit based upon the image data... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111941 | Method for dynamic range editing A method of displaying a high dynamic range image, comprising receiving the high dynamic range image, calculating a first set of tone mapping parameters as a function of the high dynamic range image, sub-sampling the first set of tone mapping parameters at a first r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111943 | Smart image enhancement process Contrast and lightness measures are used to first classify the image as being one of non-turbid and turbid. If turbid, the original image is enhanced to generate a first enhanced image. If non-turbid, the original image is classified in terms of a merged contrast/li... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107762 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for exposure control Systems, methods, and apparatus for image processing are described in which pixels of an image are classified according to color. In some systems, an exposure control operation is performed according to the pixel classifications. In some cases, the pixels are classi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107763 | Image brightness adjusting method An image brightness adjusting method is provided. The brightness values of all pixels of the image are firstly increased in various increasing degrees. Next, the increased brightness values are decreased in various decreasing degrees according to the original bright... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103120 | Method and apparatus of local contrast enhancement Methods and apparatuses of contrast enhancement on an image are disclosed. The method performs local shading of fine contrast variations in an image, with particular advantage in tone mapping applications. The amounts of shading are determined by the preferred degre... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103119 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program product, and image-capturing device An image processing device includes: a parameter calculation unit that obtains a plurality of values based on a plurality of different conversion parameters for a pixel in image data; a weighting unit that performs predetermined weighting on the plurality of values ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103118 | Electronic device with optoelectronic input/output compensation function for a display Portable devices (100) that include displays (102) and are used in widely ranging ambient light conditions use selectable or adjustable optoelectronic input/output compensation functions to drive their displays. According to certain embodiments, a came... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098953 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for adaptively processing an image using an enhanced image and edge data An image processing apparatus for automatically improving the contrast of an input image that is obtained from a digital camera or the like, and obtaining a sharper and clearing image. A contrast improvement unit performs a contrast improvement process on the input ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094964 | Methods and systems for estimating illumination source characteristics from a single image Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for determining light source characteristics from an image. An image having pixels is received that is affected by a light source. A silhouette boundary is received. The image may be filtered to decrease diffuse reflec... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094963 | Imaging system, imaging condition setting method, terminal and server used for the same An imaging unit (1) images an object to be imaged and acquires image data. On the other hand, an imaging information acquisition unit (2) acquires imaging information as information during imaging. A storage unit (3) contains optimal imaging con... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086065 | Apparatus and method for contrast enhancement Apparatus and method for contrast enhancement are disclosed. An adjustable blending unit is utilized for adjustably blending a linear contrast function with a nonlinear contrast function, thereby resulting in an adjustable contrast curve. The nonlinear contrast func... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086066 | Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian an... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086064 | System and method for generating an image enhanced product A system for generating an image enhanced output product and method for operating the same are provided. An image enhanceable product is identified having a tangible surface and a printing map is defined that defines a plurality of window areas in which images are t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081838 | System and method for providing two-scale tone management of an image The present invention provides two-scale tone management of an input image. A method of providing two-scale tone management contains the steps of: separating the input image into a base layer and a detail layer; separating a model image into a base layer and a detai... | 12/20/2011 |
