Interpolation Patents (Class 358/525)
  • Patent number: 11659153
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image data transmission method including, by an image generation apparatus, generating an image to be merged with a display image and data of an ? value representative of a transparency of a pixel of the image to be merged, generating data for merging representing the image to be merged and the data of the ? value on one image plane, and transmitting the data for merging to an apparatus that generates the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11501543
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and a method for language independent automatic license plate localization by analysis of plurality of images in real-time under day-light condition without using any external light. In one embodiment, the system can work without any spatiality constraints and/or demographic considerations without any restriction on jurisdiction and can effectively localize license plates (LPs) of any type consisting of alpha-numeric characters and symbols. In other embodiment, methods for search-space reduction system based on motion-based filtration and LPs localization based on edge-active-region filtration with high frame-per-second (FPS) throughput are described. In another embodiment, a dual-binarization scheme is described for color invariant LP localization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VIDEONETICS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Sudeb Das, Apurba Gorai, Tinku Acharya
  • Patent number: 10980409
    Abstract: An endoscope device includes: a light source configured to perform any one of simultaneous lighting and sequential lighting; an image sensor including a plurality of pixels; a plurality of filters including at least one type of primary filter and a complementary filter; and a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to cause the light source to switch between the simultaneous lighting and the sequential lighting, when the simultaneous lighting is performed, perform interpolation processing to generate an output image by using an imaging signal generated from a pixel corresponding to the complementary filter, and when the sequential lighting is performed, perform interpolation processing to generate an output image by using an imaging signal generated from a pixel corresponding to the complementary filter as an imaging signal generated from a pixel corresponding to the at least one type of primary filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sunao Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10825375
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for determining a grayscale mapping correlation in a display panel. The method includes the following operations. First, a target first luminance value of the display panel is determined. A first set of start pixel values of a first attribute of a first grayscale value is determined based on the first grayscale value and the target first luminance value of the display panel. A first set of mapped pixel values of the first attribute mapped to the first grayscale value, and a first mapped luminance value are then determined based on the first set of start pixel values of the first attribute and a set of first target values of a second attribute. The set of first target values of the second attribute include a plurality of target chrominance values and the target first luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YUNYINGGU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoming Lin, Guoqiang Mei, Yongwen Jiang, Wenguang Yang, Yan Lin, Zhenqiang Ma, Yuan Zi
  • Patent number: 10419684
    Abstract: As an apparatus for adjusting camera exposure, the apparatus includes: a virtual image generator generating a plurality of virtual images by changing brightness of an image photographed by a camera; a feature image generator generating a plurality of feature images respectively indicating features of the plurality of virtual images; and an exposure controller corresponding a feature value of the plurality of feature images to brightness, estimating reference brightness that corresponds to the maximum feature value, increasing camera exposure when the reference brightness is brighter than the photographed image, and decreasing the camera exposure when the reference brightness is darker than the photographed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: In-So Kweon, In wook Shim, Joon Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10229475
    Abstract: Resolution data is generated by using signals output by a first pixel group. Color data is generated by using signals output by a second pixel group. The resolution data is combined with the color data to generate first data. Up-conversion processing is performed on the first data to generate second data, and mosaic processing is performed on the second data to generate data of a predetermined array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Onishi, Noriyuki Kaifu, Fujio Kawano, Hisashi Takado
  • Patent number: 10136103
    Abstract: Systems and methods identify consumer products in images. Known consumer products are captured as grayscale or color images. They are converted to binary at varying thresholds. Connected components in the binary images identify image features according to pixels of a predetermined size, shape, solidity, aspect ratio, and the like. The image features are stored and searched for amongst image features similarly extracted from unknown images of consumer products. Identifying correspondence between the features of the images lends itself to identifying or not known consumer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Reed Booth
  • Patent number: 9959484
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for generating an image filter. The method includes receiving a first image that is selected with a specific imaging effect desired for the image filter, generating a group of images corresponding to the first image, wherein the group of images comprises at least a second image of a common structure characteristic with the first image and without the specific imaging effect, calculating a mapping relationship for transforming the group of images to the first image and storing the mapping relationship to be used as the image filter to generate the specific imaging effect on other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Baichao Wang, Zhijun Chen, Wendi Hou
  • Patent number: 9805686
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a memory storing a lookup table including compensation values for pixels at specific locations of the display. The lookup table also stores compensation values obtained by a bilinear compensation method. The display also includes a data compensator calculating the compensation values corresponding to a location where an image signal is displayed using the compensation values and substitution values stored in the lookup table. The substitution values are obtained by bit-shifting the compensation values acquired by bilinear compensation method. The display device avoids the need to use large and slow divider circuits used in ICs implementing bilinear compensation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Gon Jung, Jee-Hoon Jeon, Min-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 9589367
    Abstract: A graphics system includes a reconstruction unit that utilizes higher order polynomials, such as cubic splines, to reconstruct missing pixel data. The computational work to perform interpolation with higher order polynomials, such as cubic splines, is reduced by pre-calculating weights for each sparse sample pattern. The pre-calculated weights may be stored as stencils and used during runtime to perform interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Abhinav Golas, Karthik Ramani, John W. Brothers
  • Patent number: 9514528
    Abstract: Image processing apparatus includes: interpolation process image acquisition means for acquiring an interpolation process image of prescribed size which includes an interpolation point of an inputted image; Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image which is acquired with the interpolation process image acquisition means to Fourier transform; phase change means for changing, a phase of each value of the transformed interpolation process image which has been subjected to Fourier transform by the Fourier transform means, such that the interpolation point migrates to a desired nearby integer coordinate position; inverse Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image whose phase has been changed by the phase change means, to inverse Fourier transform; interpolation value determination means for adopting an interpolation point, a value of a pixel at the integer coordinate position, from the transformed interpolation process image subjected to inverse Fourier tran
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Taguchi, Mitsuji Ikeda, Yuichi Abe, Osamu Inoue, Takahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9307211
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing system capable of coping with data which is obtained in a new color filter array, and making full use of the performance of a receiving-side device by reducing the influence of a difference in the performance of the receiving-side device on an image quality. An image processing system 100 includes a transmitting-side device 101 and a receiving-side device 102. The transmitting-side device 101 generates intermediate data by preprocessing RAW data, generates three-plane color data by processing synchronization of the intermediate data, and outputs placement information for specifying pixel positions corresponding to the three-plane color data and the intermediate data. The receiving-side device 102 restores the intermediate data using the three-plane color data and the placement information from the transmitting-side device 101, and generates the three-plane color data from the restored intermediate data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenkichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9035964
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for obtaining lighting information and material information in an image modeling system are provided. A material constant of a same material region and lighting information of the same material region may be extracted by applying color channel pixel values, depth values, and viewpoint information to a linear system in which a pixel value is defined by a material constant and a combination of a geometry component with a lighting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jung Shim, Do Kyoon Kim, Seung Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9030485
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for correcting colors of an image projection device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a photographed image by photographing a sample image projected on projection surface; generating input-output color information for n regions, based on color values of a block in the sample image and corresponding color values of the block in the photographed image; selecting one of the n regions of photographed images as a reference region; generating look-up tables (LUTs) for non-reference regions, based on the reference region and the input and output color information; and correcting colors of input images to be projected by the image projection device using the look-up tables, thereby minimizing color difference of the input images on the projection surface for both intra and inter projection device color correction while simplifying the correction procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, National University of Sciences & Technology
    Inventors: Yong Ju Cho, Yong Ju Lee, Seung Kwon Beack, Ji Hun Cha, Seong Yong Lim, Myung Seok Ki, Joo Myoung Seok, Jin Woong Kim, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Rehan Hafiz, Haris Anis, Mutahir Latif, Ashar Rasul, Arshad Ali
  • Patent number: 9024961
    Abstract: A method for color grading input video data for display on a target display comprises obtaining target display metadata indicative of a capability of the target display, obtaining input video data metadata indicative of image characteristics of the input video data, automatically determining initial values for parameters of a parameterized sigmoidal transfer function, at least one of the initial values based at least in part on at least one of the target display metadata and the input video data metadata and mapping the input video data to color-graded video data according to the parameterized transfer function specified using the initial values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Peter W. Longhurst, Neil W. Messmer, Steve Margerm, Robin Atkins
  • Patent number: 9007392
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing contrast of a color image displayed on a display system and an image processing system utilizing the same. In the present invention, the gray values of R, G, and B components of one color image are separately counted during processing the image. When calculating the corresponding output values for the gray values of R, G, and B components in each pixel, they are adapted to ratios between the gray values of R, G, and B components. Therefore, the present invention can effectively maintain the color distribution for a considerable degree and greatly enhance the image contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-rong Chen, Chun-chieh Chiu
  • Patent number: 9001380
    Abstract: A present color compensating method includes receiving selection of an input ICC profile and an output ICC profile, receiving selection of a plurality of color rendering intents to be applied to an ICC profile, generating a color conversion table using the selected input ICC profile, the selected output profile, and the selected plurality of color rendering intents, and generating print data using the generated color conversion table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-soo Oh, Kyeong-man Kim, Woo-jun Chung
  • Patent number: 8982407
    Abstract: The prior art has such a problem that image quality degrades because dots are conspicuous in the case where the size of each dot is not so small and the black or white dots are regularly aligned, in particular, in a bright part close to white or in a dark part close to black. It is determined whether a black or white pixel exists at a point-symmetric position with respect to a notice pixel using pattern matching for a binarized image and in the case where a pixel exists at the point-symmetric position, the notice pixel is replaced with a specific output pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 8977071
    Abstract: Means which enables image conversion in which a plurality of conversion results can be output without once saving all of video-image data, which has been input from image-pickup means, in a storage medium is provided. A single line memory having a plurality of lines is used while switching the role thereof for a reading use by a video-image converting means and a use for inputting image data from the image-pickup means. The image converting means obtains an input image, which is in the line memory, and carries out conversion of the input image based on a conversion specifying means interpreted by an instruction decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Kido, Shoji Muramatsu, Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8976431
    Abstract: The color of a pixel in a scanned image is represented by two color components and is adjustable by interpolating between color component values obtained from elements in a bidimensional color remap look-up table. The table is sparsely populated and may be readily implemented in most scanner circuits without adding memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Douglas G. Keithley
  • Patent number: 8963945
    Abstract: A red, green, and blue (RGB) primary generation system and method for a wide color gamut, and a color encoding system using the RGB primaries. The RGB primary generation system may achieve a wide color gamut by generating a color gamut having a gamut coverage which meets a gamut coverage threshold, meeting a unique hue, having a maximum gamut efficiency, and a minimum quantization error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Seo Young Choi, Ho Young Lee, Du-Sik Park, Ji Young Hong
  • Patent number: 8963941
    Abstract: An image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of input image signals corresponding to sub-pixels forming one pixel includes a shift-amount storing unit that stores shift amounts of display positions of the sub-pixels relative to given reference positions in a display image, an image-signal correcting unit that corrects the input image signals according to the shift amounts, and an image display unit that displays an image on the basis of the image signals corrected by the image-signal correcting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Aragaki, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8937753
    Abstract: An image scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan an original document and generate a scanned image, a storage unit configured to store the generated scanned image, an image processor including a plurality of image processing modules, the plurality of image processing modules separately including a plurality of buffers configured to store the scanned image of block units, and configured to read the generated scanned image in preset block units and perform image processing on the scanned image read in block units sequentially using the plurality of image processing modules, and a controller configured to store the image-processed scanned image in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eul-hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 8917284
    Abstract: This patent relates to thin plate spline (TPS)-based interpolation techniques for representing free-flowing vector graphics (VG) images based on user-specified features, such as points and curves. One or more features can be identified in a pixel grid. A higher-order least squares interpolating function with a TPS smoothness objective can then be utilized to interpolate individual color values to individual pixels of the pixel grid. Smoothness terms of the function that impose smoothness penalties can be interrupted in certain regions of the pixel grid based on attributes of the user-specified features. For example, a curve attribute can specify a particular color value(s), add or remove a smoothness penalty, or anisotropically impose a first derivative constraint in a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Finch, John Michael Snyder, Hugues H. Hoppe
  • Patent number: 8913311
    Abstract: Disclosed is a processor-implemented method for limiting ink output of marked image data using a target printer. A processor determines a constrained output (CMYK) LUT node data set for outputting the image data using the target printer to thereby mark the image data using a limited amount of ink. The constrained set is determined by re-encoding an encoded emulation output data, i.e., constraining an initial LUT node data set for the target printer based on a second. ICC profile with a smaller gamut. This allows the printer to inherit the smaller gamut. By constraining the initial LUT as disclosed herein, the final, constrained set emulates the smaller gamut in the target printer without suffering from pathological outcomes. The method enables the printer to inherit a natural ink limit methodology for the output colors that is more relatively proportional, and in a single destination profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: James Michael Sanchez, Guo-Yau Lin, David C. Robinson
  • Patent number: 8913077
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. When a display apparatus is in the 3D display mode, a mode-switching unit adjusts the way to generate a vertical-count-value by counting every two rows of pixels and outputs the adjusted vertical-count-value. A dither unit outputs a carry value corresponding to the adjusted vertical-count-value. An adding unit adds the carry value and the surplus pixel bit together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubee, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Hung Li, Chien-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 8907971
    Abstract: A global image adjustment, such as dynamic range adjustment is established based on image characteristics. The image adjustment is based more heavily on pixel values in image areas identified as being important by one or more saliency mapping algorithms. In one application to dynamic range adjustment, a saliency map is applied to create a weighed histogram and a transformation is determined from the weighted histogram. Artifacts typical of local adjustment schemes may be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Ballestad, Gerwin Damberg
  • Patent number: 8907974
    Abstract: When a single pixel is displayed by four color sub-pixels, or R (red), G (green), B (blue), and G, in a Bayer array, this invention sets the scaling rate of a scaling process to 3/2 times when executing the scaling process on image data having three color components, or R, G, and B, and then executes a color conversion process for finding four color components from the three color components; after this, a decimation process for reducing the number of pixels is carried out. Setting the scaling rate of the scaling process to an integer proportion, moirés caused by the scaling process can be made less noticeable. Note that it is desirable for the scaling rate of the scaling process to be close to ?2 and for the denominator of the integer proportion to be lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 8902466
    Abstract: A color measuring device include an illuminating unit configured to illuminate an image-capturing range; an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the image-capturing range containing a patch and an object; an extracting unit configured to extract image data of a surrounding region in a predetermined color from the image data output by the image capturing unit; an interpolating unit configured to interpolate at least one target region that is at least one of regions of the patch and the object based on the image data of the surrounding region; a storage unit configured to store therein, as correction data, interporting data that is interporated; a correcting unit configured to correct the image data output by the image capturing unit by using the correction data; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a colorimetric value of the object based on the corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 8896619
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least perform a number of operations. The apparatus is caused to receive a digital image including pixels each of which has a pixel value that has been calibrated according to a first calibration function for calibrating an image for display by a first monitor. The apparatus is caused to transform the pixel value of each of at least some of the pixels to a corresponding transformed pixel value calibrated according to a second calibration function for calibrating an image for display by a second monitor. The apparatus is also caused to cause output of the digital image including the plurality of pixels each of at least some of which has a transformed pixel value, the respective digital image being displayable by the second monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventor: Mahmoud Ramze Rezaee
  • Patent number: 8890884
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device. A first color space converting unit converts image data in an RGB colorimetric system, which has a color gamut wider than a color gamut of a liquid crystal panel into image data in an XYZ colorimetric system. A three-dimensional nonlinear color gamut converting unit performs conversion on tristimulus values of the XYZ signal. At this time, the image data is classified into four colors and converted respectively such that the first color is displayed in a color accurate to the inputted data, the second color is displayed such that saturation of the second color is increased, the third color is displayed using a color gamut of a predetermined range out of the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel, and the fourth color is displayed in a color corresponding to a boundary of the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Xiaomang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8879123
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs a color conversion of a image expressed by coordinates of a multidimensional color space, including, a storage unit for storing lattice point data in the multidimensional color space, an address generating unit for generating addresses for reading from the storage unit the lattice point data in a first region and a second region in accordance with input values of a color signal, the first region being a region where values of all color components are equal to or larger than a first threshold, the second region being different from the first region, and an interpolating unit for generating a converted color signal by an interpolating process based on the read lattice point data. A lattice-point interval in the first region is narrower than a lattice-point interval in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Junji Yagi, Akira Iwayama
  • Patent number: 8860747
    Abstract: System and methods for gamut bounded saturation adaptive color enhancement are provided. Color enhancement incorporating gamut bounded saturation enhances colors of an pixel from a source color gamut such that the resulting color is within a target color gamut. This resulting color may, for example, take advantage of an expanded target color gamut of a display. Gamut bounded saturation may be implemented independently or in combination with RGB bounded saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Vasudev Bhaskaran, Sujith Srinivasan, Nikhil Balram
  • Patent number: 8848004
    Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 8823730
    Abstract: An image display device includes a creation unit configured to calculate histogram data before correction that indicates a luminance distribution from an input image data; a clip processing unit configured to set a value of the number of pixels of a tone to an upper threshold when the tone among tones of luminance values in the histogram data; an addition unit configured to add a value of the number of pixels based on a difference between the upper threshold and a value of the number of pixels for each tone that is set to the upper threshold in the histogram data before correction to a value of the number of pixels of at least a part of tones that are present between a first luminance value and a second luminance value and to output obtained corrected histogram data; and a correction unit configured to correct the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Motonobu Mihara, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8817038
    Abstract: A display apparatus, which adjusts a luminance value of an image, and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a first image conversion unit that converts first image data into a plurality of second image data each including a luminance value, a luminance analysis unit that determines quantities of luminance values of the second image data, and determines a distribution of the luminance values, and a luminance adjustment unit that adjusts the respective luminance values of the second image data based on the quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Seok Choi, Byung-Ki Chun, Jong-Woong Park, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8817039
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. An image processing device includes: a color gamut conversion processor configured to convert inputted data into RGB data according to a liquid crystal panel; a weighting factor calculator configured to calculate a weighting factor; a first post-color-gamut-conversion data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the RGB data; an inputted data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the inputted data; and an output adder configured to add data after the weighting processing to generate RGB data to be supplied to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xiaomang Zhang, Akiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8803765
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus sequentially provides a display device with a plurality of image output including a first image, a second image set to become at least a part of an image that is not correlated with the first image when luminance values of pixels of the first image are added to it, and a third image set to become an image, which is obtained by adding luminance values of pixels of all pluralities of images, higher spatial-frequency components than those of the first image. The image processing apparatus has an optical shutter control unit for controlling an optical shutter provided between the display device and a viewer to make the shutter be in a light transmission state while a part of or all the first image is displayed, and in a light interception state while other images are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai
  • Patent number: 8797346
    Abstract: A gamma correction system and method for a display device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the gamma correction system includes a display panel configured to display an image, a measuring unit configured to acquire optical characteristic information from the image displayed on the display panel, and a display panel driver configured to convert a gamma data result value obtained after performing optical compensation for at least two sample gray values among a plurality of reference luminance values into a corresponding data voltage and calculate a data voltage for the rest of the luminance values for which optical compensation is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Un Park, Ji-Yun Son, Dong-Ho Yoon
  • Patent number: 8773741
    Abstract: A cell interior point group of a first lattice is determined by determining at least one interior point for each of cells defined based on the first lattice points. Colorimetric values for device values of second lattice points are predicted based on device values and colorimetric values corresponding to the first lattice points, as well as device values and colorimetric values corresponding to the cell interior point group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuhei Horita
  • Patent number: 8767002
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for performing saturation adjustment of one or more pixels. In one embodiment, an input color value of a pixel is received. The input color value includes an input saturation component. An adjusted color value is extracted from a predetermined look-up table that maps the input color value to the adjusted color value, the adjusted color value having an adjusted saturation component that is different from the input saturation component. The adjusted color value is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Samson Huang, Alice Hsia
  • Patent number: 8744210
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs first filter processing to combine pixels of an image along a predetermined direction. A line noise image is extracted by executing second filter processing for the processed image along a direction different from the predetermined direction. The extracted line noise image is subtracted from the image to acquire a line noise reduced image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 8743439
    Abstract: In order to optimize the calibration tables of a printer, and to improve the calibration for combined printing with respect to one-dimensional calibration, a method for optimized printer calibration is proposed, comprising the following method steps: a) for each primary color, the maximal value is colorimetrically limited; b) each primary color is colorimetrically linearized; c) the maximal value of the combined printing of all primary colors is determined colorimetrically; d) a definition of the resulting color range is made; e) the outer layer of the color range is determined at equal spaces; and f) the intermediate values of the resulting calibration tables are interpolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: GMG GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Wurster, Henning Kramer
  • Patent number: 8736630
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. In at least one embodiment, an image processing device includes: a first color space converter configured to convert an externally transmitted RGB signal into an XYZ signal; a three-dimensional matching processor configured to perform conversion to tristimulus values of the XYZ signal to generate an XYZ signal; and a second color space converter configured to convert the XYZ signal to an RGB signal for a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Xiaomang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8736631
    Abstract: The display color of, for example, a button image responsive to a command input into a facility operation display device is controlled by a palette value having a smaller number of bits than an RGB value. When the display color of the button image is changed, the palette value of a drawing object associated with the button image is changed to an RGB value. This eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-performance CPU as a central arithmetic unit. In addition, it is not necessary to pre-store images corresponding to several kinds of display colors specified by RGB values, to thereby eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-capacity storage medium in the facility operation display device. Accordingly, the device cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Mukai, Masanori Nakata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Makoto Katsukura, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Patent number: 8736899
    Abstract: A color conversion method for wide-gamut color spaces, in which color conversion is performed without gamut clipping so that data corresponding to a predetermined wide-gamut color space can be directly output by a display device that supports a different wide-gamut color space from the predetermined wide-gamut color space, and which maintains characteristics of the predetermined wide-gamut color space. The color conversion method includes converting data of a predetermined wide-gamut color space into data of the RGB color space, determining whether the RGB data is outside the gamut of the RGB color space, extending the RGB data and clipping the extended RGB data if the RGB data is outside the gamut of the RGB color space, and dividing the clipped RGB data into a number of regions and performing a mapping operation in units of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-tae Kim, Heui-Keun Choh
  • Patent number: 8723880
    Abstract: A white balance method for a display image is disclosed. The steps of the method includes: measuring gray levels of a basic and reference colors based on a plurality of color temperatures; obtaining reference color gains according to average values of the gray level of the reference and basic colors and a ratio according to the reference color gains corresponding to each of the color temperatures; dividing the display image into a plurality of blocks, and obtaining a reference color gain of each of blocks according to the average values of the gray levels of reference and basic colors, and obtaining a block ratio of each of blocks; generating a selected number corresponding to each of the color temperature according to the ratios and the block ratios; selecting the basic and reference color gains of one of the color temperatures for executing white balance to the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8717649
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. A color contact image sensor (CIS) module employing a single channel line sensor can be used to produce substantially the same performance as a color CIS module employing a three-channel line sensor and having color filters to, for example, reduce manufacturing costs. Moreover, a blurring phenomenon that can occur in a scanned image can be reduced and the quality of the scanned image can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Mi Kim, Jong Hyon Yi
  • Patent number: 8705152
    Abstract: A system, medium, and method calibrating gray data. The system calibrating gray data includes a transformation unit to transform red, green, and blue (RGB) data of a source device into transformed color data of a different color space using a color appearance model, and a calibration unit to map a chroma value of gray data, corresponding to the transformed color data, in the different color space to a predetermined value to generate calibrated color space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-ki Cho, Heui-keun Choh, YouSun Bang, Se-eun Kim, Yun-tae Kim
  • Patent number: 8705115
    Abstract: An inverse transfer function is computed from a forward transfer function of an image rendering device. During the computation, device-dependent values are extrapolated for border nodes. The extrapolated values are out-of-gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Miheer M. Bhachech, Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Mark Q. Shaw