Abstract: An image file for storing a still digital image and metadata related to the still digital image, the image file including digital image data representing the still digital image, and metadata that categorizes the still digital image as an important digital image, wherein the categorization uses a range of levels and the range of levels includes at least three different integer values.

Abstract: An inorganic light emitting layer having a plurality of light emitting cores, each core having a semiconductor material that emits light in response to recombination of holes and electrons, each such light emitting core defining a first bandgap; a plurality of semiconductor shells formed respectively about the light emitting cores to form core/shell quantum dots, each such semiconductor shell having a second bandgap wider than the first bandgap; and a semiconductor matrix connected to the semiconductor shells to provide a conductive path through the semiconductor matrix and to each such semiconductor shell and its corresponding light emitting core so as to permit the recombination of holes and electrons.

Abstract: A method of processing a digital image captured by a camera includes providing an ambient air measuring device associated with the camera; using the ambient air measuring device to measure air attributes at substantially the time the digital image was captured; determining a transform for modifying the digital image from the measured air attributes; and applying the transform to the digital image to produce an improved digital image.

Abstract: A doped semiconductor junction for use in an electronic device and a method for making such junction is disclosed. The junction includes a first polycrystalline semiconductor layer doped with donors or acceptors over a substrate such that the first doped semiconductor layer has a first polarity, the first layer including fused semiconductor nanoparticles; and a second layer in contact with the first semiconductor layer over a substrate to form the semiconductor junction.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to avoid the above-mentioned problems and provide a multicolor OLED display with improved power efficiency that reduces the need for precisely patterning one or more of the OLED layers. This object is achieved by an OLED display having at least red, green, and blue colored pixels, including a magenta light emitting layer provided over a substrate for red and blue pixels and a green light emitting layer provided over the substrate for producing at least a green pixel. It is also achieved by first and second color filters in operative relationship with the magenta light-emitting layer to respectively produce red and blue pixels.

Abstract: A method of producing a digital image with reduced object motion blur, includes capturing at least a first and second digital image of a scene using an exposure time that reduces image blur; combining pixels of the first digital image to produce a third digital image which is brighter than the first and second digital images and has a lower resolution than either the first or second digital images; identifying static and moving regions between the first and second digital images; operating on the first and second digital images to produce a fourth digital image which is brighter than the first and second digital images and has object motion blur; and replacing the moving regions in the fourth digital image with corresponding regions from the third digital image to thereby provide a fifth digital image with reduced object motion blur and increased brightness.

Abstract: An OLED display for producing a full color image, comprising a plurality of at least four different colored pixels including three different colored addressable gamut-defining pixels and a fourth addressable within-gamut pixel, each pixel having an organic light-emitting diode with first and second electrodes and one or more organic light-emitting layers provided between the electrodes; the OLED display having a selected display white point, display peak luminance, gamut-defining pixel peak luminances and within-gamut pixel peak luminance; and drive circuitry for regulating luminance of the organic light-emitting diode of each of the colored pixels wherein the sum of the gamut-defining pixel peak luminances is less than the display peak luminance.

Abstract: A method for preparing a nanodispersion comprising the steps of: (i) introducing into a milling apparatus a solid fluorinated phthalocycanine pigment according to Formula (I): Wherein M is a metal cation chosen from Groups 1b, 2b, 2a or 3a of the Periodic Table of the Elements; R is fluorine, a perfluoroalkyl or a perfluoroaryl group; z is 1 to 4; L is an anionic ligand; and n is 0 or 1 such that the overall charge on the molecular unit is neutral; followed by milling with agitation the solid fluorinated phthalocyanine in an organic solvent into a suspension of particles so that at least 80 volume % of the particles have a particle size of less than 100 nm.

Abstract: A method of processing a digital image to produce an improved digital image, includes receiving the digital image captured with a camera; determining a first vanishing point associated with the digital image; determining a second vanishing point associated with the digital image corresponding to a direction orthogonal the first vanishing point; determining a transform for modifying the digital image based on the first vanishing point and the second vanishing point; and applying the transform to the digital image to produce an improved digital image.

Abstract: An OLED display comprising a substrate; at least one heat insulating layer disposed over the substrate; a first electrode located over the heat insulating layer and having a thermal conductivity higher than the heat insulating layer; a plurality of thermal contacts provided through the heat insulating layer between the first electrode and the substrate, the thermal contacts comprising material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the heat insulating layer; one or more organic layers, at least one of which is a light emissive layer, disposed over the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed over the one or more organic layers.

Abstract: Method for building color transforms for color imaging devices having concave color gamut regions, including forming a device model that relates device control signals for a color imaging device to corresponding device-independent color values in a device-independent color space; forming a device color gamut representing the set of colors in the device-independent color space that are producible by the color imaging device; and forming a convex color gamut by fitting a convex hull to the device color gamut. The method further includes forming an expanded device model that relates device control signals for the color imaging device to expanded device-independent color values in the device-independent color space, such that the expanded device-independent color values fill the convex color gamut; and building a color transform that relates input device-independent color values to corresponding device control signals for the color imaging device using the expanded device model.

Abstract: A flat-panel lamp and fixture system having a removable flat-panel lamp having at least two externally accessible electrode contacts and a suspended fixture for removably receiving at least one of flat-panel lamps and holding at least a portion of each of the flat-panel lamps above a portion of the suspended fixture. The system employs gravity to hold the at least one of flat-panel lamps in alignment having electrical connections for providing electrical connection to the at least two externally accessible electrode contacts.

Abstract: A method for correcting colored fringe artifacts in a region of an image around saturated pixels captured by an electronic imager associated with a color filter array, includes providing a threshold map of the image based on thresholding one or more color channels with a common or separate threshold value for each color channel; providing a first edge map by dilating the threshold map as a function of the color fringe width, producing a first dilated threshold map and subtracting the threshold map from the first dilated threshold map; and color-desaturating image pixels that correspond to the first edge map.

Abstract: A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image containing one or more persons; storing in a digital database an appearance model having a set of features associated with the particular person of interest and a prior probability of the person of interest appearing in images by a particular photographer; and comparing the appearance model with features extracted from the digital images in the collection of digital images and using the prior probability and the appearance model to determine if the particular person of interest is in one or more digital images in the collection of digital images.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a full-color organic EL panel in which pixels emitting light of different colors are formed by selectively depositing an organic material on a pixel-by-pixel basis, wherein, a deposition process of depositing an organic material for emitting light of at least one color includes a first step of depositing an organic material for emitting light of at least one color, using a first mask, on a first group of pixels corresponding to openings of the first mask, and a second step of depositing an organic material for emitting light of the same color as the one color, using a second mask, on a second group of the pixels corresponding to openings of the second mask.

Abstract: A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes producing shifted error signals for each color channel, weighting the shifted error signals to determine weighted error signals for nearby pixels that have yet to be processed; producing shifted weighted error signals; and adjusting the input levels for the nearby pixels responsive to the shifted weighted error signals.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode positioned relative to the substrate in which at least one of the electrodes is the transparent electrode; an organic light-emitting element including at least a light-emitting layer disposed between the two electrodes; and a performance enhancement layer disposed between the two electrodes; wherein the performance enhancement layer is high index and has a thickness of at least 20 nm.

Abstract: A tandem OLED display for producing broadband light having at least two spaced electrodes includes two or more broadband light-emitting units disposed between the electrodes, at least two of which produce light having different emission spectra and wherein at least one of such broadband light-emitting units does not produce white light, and an intermediate connector disposed between adjacent light-emitting units.

Abstract: A method for operating an autofocus system for focusing an image on an electronic imager includes providing an adjustable lens system defining an optical path for scene light and having at least one movable lens to focus an image of the scene onto the electronic imager; and causing a first portion of the scene light to be obscured so that the electronic imager captures a first autofocus image and causing a second different portion of the scene light to be obscured so that the electronic imager captures a second autofocus image wherein portions of the first and second autofocus images are offset. The method further includes moving the movable lens to a position so that an image to be captured will be in focus.

Abstract: A tandem white OLED includes an anode; a cathode; at least one broadband electroluminescent unit disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the broadband electroluminescent unit includes at least one light-emitting layer and produces at least one color component having an intensity less than desired; at least one color-compensating electroluminescent unit disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the color-compensating electroluminescent unit is selected to produce the at least one color component and to increase the color component intensity; and an intermediate connector disposed between each adjacent electroluminescent unit, wherein the intermediate connector has no direct connection to an external power source.