Patents by Inventor Francisco H. Imai

Francisco H. Imai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230317020
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display, an ambient light sensor, and control circuitry. The control circuitry may use a mesopic vision model to compensate images that are displayed in low light conditions when the measured ambient light brightness is below a threshold. The mesopic vision model may use a tone mapping process and a color mapping process to compensate for the reduced color sensitivity of the retina in low light conditions. The control circuitry may iteratively adjust weights associated with the tone mapping process and the color mapping process until a perceived (retinal) version of the compensated image in the measured ambient light conditions closely matches a perceived (retinal) version of the original image in reference ambient light conditions. The control circuitry may use a joint optimization process that balances the contrast and color of the compensated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Francisco H Imai, Osborn F. de Lima, Jun Miao, Pradeep Nagesh
  • Patent number: 10911748
    Abstract: A display calibration system may include a first electronic device that includes an ambient light sensor and a display to be calibrated in a second electronic device. The first electronic device may generate test patterns to be displayed on the display. The ambient light sensor may receive light emitted from the display based on the test patterns to generate display color space data. The first electronic device may generate calibration data for the display based on the display color space data and a target reference color space. The second electronic device may store the calibration data and use the calibration data to generate more accurate images. Because the first electronic device may include other functionalities other display calibration, specialized display calibration equipment may be omitted. Additionally, a third electronic device that acts as an intermediary between the first and second electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Molholm, Mingxia Gu, Lu Zhang, Francisco H. Imai, Jiaying Wu, Shahram Peyvandi, Gabriel Marcu, Po-Chieh Hung, Xiran Wang
  • Patent number: 10733942
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays and ambient light sensors. An electronic device modifies the color of images to be displayed based on measured ambient light color. The modification is performed in a perceptually uniform color space and includes a determination of a bleaching effect of reflected ambient light, and a determination of a color correction factor to be applied within the perceptually uniform color space, based on the determined bleaching effect. The modification may also include an application of a strength factor that mitigates out-of-gamut colors in color compensated images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco H. Imai, Chi Zhang, Adria Fores Herranz, Jiaying Wu, Arthur L. Spence, Marc Albrecht
  • Publication number: 20190318696
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays and ambient light sensors. An electronic device modifies the color of images to be displayed based on measured ambient light color. The modification is performed in a perceptually uniform color space and includes a determination of a bleaching effect of reflected ambient light, and a determination of a color correction factor to be applied within the perceptually uniform color space,7 based on the determined bleaching effect. The modification may also include an application of a strength factor that mitigates out-of-gamut colors in color compensated images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Francisco H. IMAI, Chi ZHANG, Adria FORES HERRANZ, Jiaying WU, Arthur L. SPENCE, Marc ALBRECHT
  • Patent number: 8442355
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a multi-dimensional image of an object in a scene is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a spectral estimation module configured to convert a two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution light intensity image of the scene to a spectral-augmented image of a selected channel. The system further includes a high-resolution depth image generation module configured to generate a high-resolution depth image of the object based on a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution depth image of the scene and the spectral-augmented image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Francisco H. Imai
  • Publication number: 20090290811
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a multi-dimensional image of an object in a scene is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a spectral estimation module configured to convert a two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution light intensity image of the scene to a spectral-augmented image of a selected channel. The system further includes a high-resolution depth image generation module configured to generate a high-resolution depth image of the object based on a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution depth image of the scene and the spectral-augmented image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Francisco H. Imai