Abstract: Techniques for editing visual content by anchoring visual adaptation are disclosed. At least one anchor pattern is presented on a display surround. The perceptibility of the at least one anchor pattern is dependent on visual adaptation. The visual content is edited during the presentation of the at least one anchor pattern. For specific embodiments, the presentation, whether continuous or periodic, can include illumination, emission, reflection, rear projection, forward projection, or the like. A plurality of the patterns can be disposed around a reference display.

Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel section which displays an image on the basis of an image signal, a light source section which emits light to the image display panel section by dimming control according to a control signal based on the image signal, and a control section which determines on the basis of the image signal from a mode of change in light emission luminance of the light source section whether the image displayed by the image display panel section is a dynamic image or a static image and which performs switching according to a determination result between a static image control speed and a dynamic image control speed of the dimming control. The display device suppresses image quality degradation caused at the time of displaying a dynamic image or a static image.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating color-based recommendations using color palette information. An indication may be received that a user is requesting a color-related recommendation, the indication associated with item information and color palette information, the color palette information corresponding to a first color palette. Based at least in part on the item information and the color palette information, one or more items corresponding to the item information and the color palette information are identified. Where there is more than one identified item, a ranking for the identified plurality of items may be generated. Item recommendations comprising at least a portion of the identified plurality of items in accordance with the generated ranking may be provided for presentation on a user device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are operable to communicate a list of important shaders and their current best-known compilations to remote client devices over a communications network. Client devices are allowed to produce modified shader compilations by varying optimizations. If a client device produces a modified compilation that beats an important shader's current best-known compilation, embodiments of the present invention can communicate this new best-known shader compilation back to a host computer system. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may periodically broadcast the new best-known shader compilation back to client devices for possible further optimization or for efficient rendering operations using the best-known shader compilation.

Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for optimized rendering of multimedia content as described herein. An embodiment includes identifying one or more content layers for display and promoting the multimedia content layer for display over all layers of the one or more content layers, when no content is to be displayed over the multimedia content layer. Another embodiment includes identifying one or more content layers for display and displaying a bitmap representing a multimedia content layer directly on a display device, when no content is to be displayed over the multimedia content layer.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that recommend images, items, and/or metadata based at least in part on a reference color palette or reference color name. A color name can be converted into a representation of the color name in a color space. The reference color can be used to identify images that contain the reference color. The identified images and associated metadata can be analyzed, sorted and provided as an ordered list of items. Systems and methods are also described that identify items that contain colors affiliated with the reference color. Systems and methods are also described that validate color identifier information in metadata associated with an image. Systems and methods are also described that identify non-color specific keywords associated with the reference color.

Abstract: A method provided by this disclosure may comprise: converting received RGB input signals into corresponding RGB luminance input values respectively; determining RGBY luminance output values according to a position relationship of corresponding point of the RGB luminance input values and regions formed by RGBY in a chromatic diagram respectively; and converting the determined RGBY luminance output values into corresponding RGBY output signals respectively and outputting the corresponding RGBY output signals.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining whether certain color image metadata is accurate. A color image and associated color image metadata provided by a source for inclusion in an electronic catalog are accessed. A color palette corresponding to the color image is generated. A color name associated with the color palette is determined. A determination is made as to whether the image metadata comprises a color name. If the image metadata comprises a color name, a determination is made as to whether the color name included in the image metadata corresponds to the color name associated with the color palette. If the color name included in the image metadata does not correspond to the color name associated with the color palette or if the image metadata does not comprise a color name, the color name associated with the color palette is added to the color image metadata.

Abstract: An image adjusting apparatus includes the following elements. A set color temperature obtaining unit obtains a set color temperature which is set when a white image is displayed, in an image display apparatus. A maximum tone value calculator calculates a maximum tone value of a reference color when the displayed white image is changed into a white image corresponding to the set color temperature. A tone characteristic setting unit sets a tone characteristic of the reference color on the basis of the calculated maximum tone value. If the calculated maximum tone value is decreased from a maximum tone value before the set color temperature is set, the tone characteristic setting unit corrects, in a region in which a tone value of an input image signal is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, the tone characteristic so that a tone value of an output image signal is increased.

Abstract: The application provides a method for rasterization. According to the method, a primitive may be divided, at a position where a color abruptly changes in the primitive, into a plurality of sub-primitives with continuously and gradually changing colors. Each of the sub-primitives is then rasterized. The present application further provides an apparatus for rasterizing an image. The apparatus may comprise a dividing module configured to divide a primitive at a position where a color abruptly changes into a plurality of sub-primitives with continuously gradually changing colors. Furthermore, the apparatus may comprise a rasterizing module configure to rasterize each of the sub-primitives. The application may improve the speed of the rasterization and the quality of the processed image.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described to adjust colors of digital images by using color control tools overlaid on the digital images to be adjusted. In one aspect, a method includes displaying, within a graphical user interface (GUI) and superimposed on a digital image being manipulated, a color control tool configured to cause change of a selected color within the digital image in accordance with user input specifying movement within the GUI. The color control tool includes a plurality of new color indicators, each indicating a new color to which the selected color will change in response to an associated predetermined movement within the GUI. The method also includes receiving via the color control tool user input specifying a direction of movement within the GUI relative to the plurality of new color indicators, and changing the selected color to match the new color indicator associated with the specified direction of movement.

Abstract: A method for drawing a line having a gradient opacity across a width of the line includes receiving a path for rendering the line in a user interface, and rendering, by a computing device, a plurality of composite lines on a user interface along the path to form the line. The composite lines of the plurality of composite lines have different widths have an opacity, and are multilayered along the path. The method further includes centering, by the computing device, longitudinal-centers of the plurality of composite lines with a center of the path. The opacity of the plurality of composite lines is additive across portions of the width of the line to form the gradient opacity.

Abstract: A device and method of forming a video frame from a video stream made up of a multiplexed plurality of sub-streams is disclosed. The method includes forming a foreground plane, forming a mask that represents opaque pixels in the foreground plane, and forming an underlying plane from at least one of the sub-streams and extracting a transparency value associated with each pixel in the foreground and underlying planes. Only those pixels in the underlying and foreground planes not covered by the mask, are blended in accordance with their associated transparency value in a buffer. The buffer is populated with opaque pixels from the foreground plane, at pixel locations corresponding to the mask.

Abstract: A method for adjusting color values of a video signal. The video signal includes a first frame and a second frame prior to the first frame. The method includes steps of: determining a motion-level value of a first pixel in the first frame according to color values of the first pixel and a second pixel in the second frame; performing a first filtering operation to obtain an adjusted color value of the first pixel if the motion-level value is smaller than a first threshold; performing a second filtering operation to obtain the adjusted color value of the first pixel if the motion-level value is greater than a first threshold; and performing a third filtering operation to obtain the adjusted color value of the first pixel if the motion-level value lies between the first threshold and the second threshold.

Abstract: A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.

Abstract: An image creation method, includes: first obtaining a subject image including a subject region; second obtaining skeleton information related to a skeleton of a subject in the subject image obtained by the first obtaining; specifying, based on the skeleton information obtained by the second obtaining, color information of a contour portion of the subject region; and creating a back-side-image, based on the color information of the contour portion of the subject region specified by the specifying, by drawing a subject correspondent region of the back-side image showing a back side of the subject in a pseudo manner.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling display of an electronic device are provided. The method includes selecting a specific area of a screen by a user, and switching a display on/off status of the selected specific area of a screen. Wherein, the switching of the display on/off status comprises determining whether display of the specific area is on or off, and, if it is determined that the display of the specific area is on, supplying current to a pixel corresponding to the specific area, and, if it is determined that the display of the specific area is off, discontinuing the supply of the current to the pixel in the specific area.

Abstract: A method for coregistration of multi-modal images obtained in different geometries includes acquiring multi-modal image data, wherein the multi-model image data includes image data of a first modality and image data of a second modality, wherein the image data of the respective modalities have different geometries, defining a volume of interest in the multi-modal image data, segmenting the image data of the first modality and incorporating segmentation data of the first modality into a reconstruction of the second modality, and applying a registration of the second modality image data to the first modality image data according to a similarity measure through the volume of interest, wherein an output of the registration comprises superimposed multi-modal image data.

Abstract: A method of generating a calligraphic ink object, comprising sampling contact coordinates generated by a coordinate input device during writing thereon using a pointer to generate an ink trajectory generally representing the writing; generating an ink envelope, the ink envelope comprising line segments joining pointer instances at the sampled contact coordinates; generating a smoothed ink envelope at least by fitting curves to points on the ink envelope; and drawing the smoothed ink envelope on a display thereby to generate the calligraphic ink object.

Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.