Color Or Intensity Patents (Class 345/589)
  • Patent number: 8952980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transforming and displaying a video signal on a display are provided with any number of features. In some embodiments, system is configured to receive a first set of input signals in a controller. The system can determine in the controller a first set of luminances and colors that would be produced on a first display with the first set of input signals. The system can then determine in the controller a second set of luminances that would produce the first set of colors on a second display. The system can then generate in the controller a second set of input signals that would produce the second set of luminances on the second display, and can output the second set of input signals to the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: GSI Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Hansen, Jerome Truppa, Amir Baghdadi
  • Patent number: 8952979
    Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to fill pixels of an image. An area of the image is obtained and one of the pixels is identified as an anchor pixel. Waves are created based on the anchor pixel and placed into a collection of waves waiting to be processed. Each of the waves in the collection is processed. A type of pixel in front of a current wave being processed is determined. If the pixel is fillable, the pixel is filled, the wave is advanced, and child waves are updated. If the pixel is blocking the advancement of the wave, the current wave is updated (e.g., via shrinking or splitting), and child waves are updated. Once all waves have been processed, the area of the image is displayed based on the fill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventor: Josh Cameron
  • Patent number: 8952978
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel unit having predetermined viewing angle characteristics. An image data conversion unit is included that converts original image data to be displayed on the display panel unit so that a luminance difference in a low gray level region does not substantially change between before and after conversion and so that a luminance difference in a high gray level region changes in such a manner that a luminance difference obtained after conversion becomes smaller than a luminance difference obtained before conversion. A data holding unit holds predetermined oblique-view image data corresponding to the predetermined viewing angle characteristics of the display panel unit. An image combining unit combines image data obtained through conversion by the image data conversion unit with the predetermined oblique-view image data to generate composite image data. The composite image data is displayed on the display panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Takao Yagi
  • Publication number: 20150035846
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems display, within a portion of each of a sequence of a plurality of frames displayed on a display device, a geometric object in a first color value or hue to represent a first of a plurality of data values or in a second color value or hue to represent a second of the plurality of data values. The first color value or hue differs from the second color value or hue and the first data value differs from the second data value. Within the sequence of frames, the geometric object is displayed in each of the first and second color values or hues one or more times in a pattern corresponding to an ordered sequence of the plurality of data values, the ordered sequence of data values conveying an encoded message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Alex Ioannidis
  • Publication number: 20150035848
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention, comprises: a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light sources, the emission brightness of which can be individually changed; a display unit configured to display an image on a screen by modulating light from the light-emitting unit; and a control unit configured to control the emission brightness of each of the light sources according to a brightness of an image to be displayed in a region on the screen corresponding to each of the plurality of light sources, wherein when a graphic image is superimposed on an original image and is displayed, the control unit changes the emission brightness of each of the light sources according to a type of the graphic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Furumoto, Takeshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20150035847
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for converting data capable of enhancing sharpness without deterioration of picture quality, and a display apparatus using the same, wherein the apparatus for converting data is provided in the display apparatus with a plurality of unit pixels, each unit pixel with red, green, blue and white sub-pixels, and the apparatus for converting data includes a 4-color data generator for generating 4-color data of red, green, blue and white colors for each unit pixel based on 3-color input data of red, green and blue colors of an input image; and a sharpness enhancer for enhancing sharpness of the input image by correcting white sub-pixel data of the unit pixel corresponding to an edge portion of the input image by a luminance variation of adjacent unit pixels based on white sub-pixel data for each unit pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yong Min Park, Dong Woo Kang, Tae Seong Han, Sung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8947448
    Abstract: A parallax representation unit in a displayed image processing unit uses a height map containing information on a height of an object for each pixel to represent different views caused by the height of the object. A color representation unit uses, for example, texture coordinate values derived by the parallax representation unit to render the image, shifting the pixel defined in the color map. The color representation unit uses the normal map that maintains normals to the surface of the object for each pixel to change the way that light impinges on the surface and represent the roughness accordingly. A shadow representation unit uses a horizon map, which maintains information for each pixel to indicate whether a shadow is cast depending on the angle relative to the light source, so as to shadow the image rendered by the color representation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Segawa, Noriaki Shinoyama, Akio Ohba, Tetsugo Inada
  • Patent number: 8947324
    Abstract: A display apparatus, that can prevent thermal destruction and burning with a simple structure, has been disclosed. In the apparatus it is judged that there is possibility of a pattern, whose area with high brightness is small, being displayed frequently, when a state in which the total light emission pulse number remains large occurs with high frequency, and if such a state is detected, the total light emission pulse number (sustain frequency) is reduced to prevent the thermal destruction and burning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayahito Kojima, Shigeki Kameyama, Hirohito Kuriyama, Yoshikazu Kanazawa, Toshio Ueda
  • Patent number: 8948537
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus according to various aspects take as input image data in a lower-dynamic-range (LDR) format and produce as output enhanced image data having a dynamic range greater than that of the input image data (i.e. higher-dynamic range (HDR) image data). In some embodiments, the methods are applied to video data and are performed in real-time (i.e. processing of video frames to enhance the dynamic range of the video frames is completed at least on average at the frame rate of the video signal).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Allan G. Rempel, Wolfgang Heidrich, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Lorne A. Whitehead
  • Patent number: 8947465
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for display-mode-dependent adjustment of image code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Publication number: 20150029205
    Abstract: A method and system of enhancing a backlight-scaled image include a minimum perceptible luminance threshold of cone response with dim backlight being determined, and a luminance layer associated with an image being extracted. The luminance layer is decomposed into an HVS response layer and a background luminance layer for each pixel of the luminance layer. Luminance of dark pixels of the background luminance layer is boosted and compressed to a perceptible range above the minimum perceptible luminance threshold, thereby resulting in an enhanced background luminance layer. An enhanced luminance layer is generated through composition using the HVS response layer and the enhanced background luminance layer as inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicants: Himax Technologies Limited, National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tai-Hsiang HUANG, Kuang-Tsu Shih, Su-Ling Yeh, Homer H. Chen, Sheng-Chun Niu
  • Publication number: 20150029204
    Abstract: A dynamic localized contrast enhancement method for images and computer readable medium is revealed. The method includes multiple steps. First scan each image frame dynamically by a window whose size is smaller than that of the image frame. Then receive color feature values of pixels in the window and generate a distribution histogram according to the color feature values of the pixels in the window. The distribution histogram shows a relationship between the color feature value and a corresponding count of the pixels while the count represents the amount of the pixels with the color feature value in the window. Finally, perform contrast stretching according to the distribution histogram so as to improve the contrast in the image frame significantly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: SHAO-YANG WANG
  • Publication number: 20150029206
    Abstract: A method and an electronic device for displaying a wallpaper, and a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program to perform the method are provided. The electronic device includes a storage unit that stores a user image and variable data; a display unit that displays the wallpaper; and a controller that selects the user image and the variable data, creates a composite image by reflecting the variable data in the user image, and controls the display of the composite image as the wallpaper through the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Maria BIALOTA
  • Publication number: 20150029207
    Abstract: A method for applying a filter to data to improve data quality and/or reduce file size. In one example, a region of interest of an image is identified. A histogram is generated of pixel intensity values in the region of interest. The histogram is iteratively updated to focus (zoom) in on the highest peak in the histogram. A Gaussian curve is fitted to the updated histogram. A bilateral filter is applied to the images, where parameters of the bilateral filter are based on the parameters of the Gaussian curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Patrick G. HUMPHREY
  • Patent number: 8941730
    Abstract: A color-unevenness inspection apparatus includes: an image pickup section picking up an image of an inspection target in a color-unevenness inspection; and an image generation section generating an uneven-color image by, in the picked-up image of the inspection target obtained by the image pickup section, calculating a chroma in each unit region and identifying an uneven-color region based on a magnitude of the calculated chroma. The color-unevenness inspection apparatus further includes: a calculation section calculating, for the uneven-color region in the uneven-color image, an evaluation parameter to be used in the color-unevenness inspection; and an inspection section performing the color-unevenness inspection based on the calculated evaluation parameter. The image generation section calculates the chroma, in each unit region of the picked-up image, while performing correction processing that reflects variations in color-unevenness visibility from color to color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nagamine, Satoshi Tomioka
  • Patent number: 8941563
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device comprising a first light for emitting light rays and a first modulator operable to modulate those light rays for generating primary modulated light ray (10). A second light-source having a second modulator operable to generate secondary modulated light rays is also provided (14). The second light-source is transparent and is disposed relative to the first light-source such that primary modulated light rays generated by the first light-source are transmittable though the second light-source whereby a composite light-output comprising both primary and secondary modulated light rays is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Polygon Systems UK LLP
    Inventor: Alessandro Artusi
  • Publication number: 20150022541
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Jeremy ZELSNACK
  • Publication number: 20150022542
    Abstract: A head mounted display device that allows a user to visually recognize a content as a virtual image, includes a display part that displays the content in a predetermined display area, and a control part that determines a background color of the content and use environment brightness and adjusts brightness of the display area in response to the determination results thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20150022543
    Abstract: A rearview assembly for a vehicle is provided that includes: a housing configured for mounting to the vehicle; a rearview element disposed in the housing that displays images of a scene exterior of the vehicle; a light sensor assembly disposed in the housing; and a controller for receiving the electrical signal of the light sensor and for adjusting a brightness of the images displayed by the rearview element. The light sensor includes a light sensor for outputting an electrical signal representing intensity of light impinging upon a light-receiving surface of the light sensor, and a secondary optical element configured to receive light, wherein the light passes through the secondary optical element to the light sensor, the secondary optical element including a tint material that is substantially color neutral for attenuating light passing therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Barry K Nelson, Jon H Bechtel, Daniel G McMillan, Spencer D Reese
  • Publication number: 20150015596
    Abstract: When a driving support apparatus is under automatic driving of a vehicle or an automatic driving button is pressed under manual driving, vicinity image data is acquired from an in-vehicle camera. When a predetermined target object is recognized in the vicinity image data, a visibility reduction process is applied to image data of the recognized target object. The visibility reduction process applies at least one of defocusing; decreasing color information; and decreasing edge intensity, to the image data of the recognized target object. In contrast, any visibility reduction process is not applied to any other image data other than the image data of the recognized target object. An image display apparatus displays the vicinity image by a combination of the image data of the recognized target object of which the visibility is reduced and the other image data of which the visibility is not reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yasutsugu NAGATOMI, Tadashi KAMADA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yukimasa TAMATSU, Ryusuke HOTTA, Shohei MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150015694
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable and executable instructions are described herein. One method includes combining a plurality of images of a furnace into a composite image of the furnace, revising the composite image of the furnace to an intensity scaling, restoring a portion of the revised composite image of the furnace; and displaying a view of the restored revised composite image of the furnace to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kwong Wing Au, Sharath Venkatesha, Matthew Martin
  • Patent number: 8933959
    Abstract: Display devices and systems are configured with display panels substantially comprising one of several embodiments of three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating groups that are particularly suitable for directional display devices which produce at least two images simultaneously, such as autostereoscopic three-dimensional display devices or multi-view devices. Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a device configured with one of the illustrated subpixel repeating groups using a subpixel rendering operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 8933972
    Abstract: A method and system for adjusting luminance in a display device including displaying an image with saturated colors, and adjusting luminance settings of sub-pixels so that a relative luminance ratio between full white color and any fully saturated color is within approximately 25 percent of a reference relative luminance ratio between the full white color and the same fully saturated color in an equivalent display device including red, green and blue sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Robert D. Polak, Zhiming (Jim) Zhuang
  • Patent number: 8933957
    Abstract: Methods and systems for visually organizing aviation or aeronautical charts with color emphasis and de-emphasis features selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian B. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 8933958
    Abstract: Embodiments of enhanced user interface elements in ambient light are described. Sensor inputs can be received from light sensors that detect ambient light proximate an integrated display of a portable device. A determination is made that the ambient light detracts from the visibility of user interface elements displayed in a user interface on the integrated display. Display properties of graphic components of a user interface element are interpolated through a light range from approximately complete darkness to full sunlight, and the graphic components of a user interface element can be modified based on interpolating the display properties within the light range to enhance the visibility of the user interface element for display in the ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ross N. Luengen, Michael H. LaManna, Gavin M. Gear
  • Patent number: 8934072
    Abstract: A display and methods of driving the display, where the display includes a plurality of pixels, where some colors are present in every pixel, and some colors are only present in less than all of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Genoa Color Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Shmuel Roth, Moshe Ben-Chorin, Doron Malka, Dan Eliav
  • Patent number: 8928689
    Abstract: A pixel data conversion method for display with delta panel arrangement converts an input video signal into a temporary video signal which is a first RGB signal with 640 horizontal resolution in a strip panel arrangement and converts the temporary video signal into an output video signal which is a RGB signal with 320 horizontal resolution in the delta panel arrangement. Each line of the output video signal has 960 pixels. A pixel size ratio is defined as a ratio of a pixel size of the delta panel to a pixel size of the strip panel. The 320 horizontal resolution is obtained by dividing the 640 horizontal resolution by the pixel size ratio and then by three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Orise Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Li Wu, Chih-Kai Chang
  • Patent number: 8928690
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for implementing antialiasing including independently operating different portions of a graphics pipeline at different sampling rates in accordance with pixel color details.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Jude Brennan
  • Patent number: 8928683
    Abstract: A pixel data conversion method for display with delta panel arrangement converts an input video signal into a temporary video signal which is a first RGB signal with 960 horizontal resolution in strip panel arrangement and converts the temporary video signal into an output video signal which is a RGB signal with 320 horizontal resolution in delta panel arrangement. Each line of the output video signal has 960 pixels, wherein a sequence of red pixel, green pixel, and blue pixel is repeatedly arranged for an odd-numbered horizontal line, and a sequence of green pixel, blue pixel, and red pixel is repeatedly arranged for an even-numbered horizontal line. The position of each pixel in an even-numbered horizontal line has a half-pixel dislocation to the position of each pixel in an odd-numbered horizontal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Orise Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih Kai Chang, Yu Li Wu
  • Patent number: 8928253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating light with a desired light color by using at least one light-emitting diode emitting red r-LED, at least one light-emitting diode emitting green g-LED, at least one light-emitting diode emitting blue b-LED and at least one light-emitting diode emitting white w-LED. In order to improve the CRI value, according to the invention it is proposed that weighting values ascertained according to the RGB algorithm and further weighting values ascertained according to the RGBW algorithm be combined together by using a correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Swen Bergeler, Yvonne Bodschwinna-Kangarakis, Frank Schmid
  • Patent number: 8928682
    Abstract: Image processing may be performed to generate a color image for display on a color display screen and a monochrome image for display on a monochrome display screen, where an overlap of the images may produce a resultant color image at one or more depths. The one or more depths may be determined by an amount of blur applied to one image and an amount of sharpness applied to other. The one or more depths may be determined by a gamma value of the monochrome image. Since the monochrome display screen may have fewer or no color filters and/or a lower resolution, the monochrome display screen may pass more light than conventional color display screens. As such, less light can be used to illuminate color images displayed at different depths using a color display screen and a monochrome display screen, thereby reducing energy consumption of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Pure Depth Limited
    Inventors: Gareth P Bell, Darryl Singh, Hayden James Rosser
  • Patent number: 8929588
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for object tracking are described herein. One or more method embodiments include receiving an initial set of track points associated with a trajectory of an object, compressing the initial set of track points into a plurality of track segments, each track segment having a start track point and an end track point, and storing the plurality of track segments to represent the trajectory of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Yadhunandan Ullam Subbaraya, Mahesh Kumar Gellaboina, Ben A Miller, MaryRosaline Mariappan, Dinesh Ramegowda, Gurumurthy Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 8929649
    Abstract: The importance detection unit 52 detects importance of each pixel composing the original image thus acquired. In addition, the importance map generation unit 52 generates an importance map indicating distribution of the importance detected for each pixel. The characteristic region detection unit 61 detects a characteristic region of the original image, from the original image thus acquired. The determination unit 62 determines a brushstroke pattern that should be applied to the characteristic region thus detected, from at least two types of brushstroke patterns stored in a storage unit. The brushstroke pattern conversion unit 63 converts an image in the characteristic region into an image, to which the brushstroke pattern is applied, based on the brushstroke pattern thus determined. The adjustment unit 64 adjusts color of the image of the brushstroke pattern being the image in the characteristic region, based on the importance map thus generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Teshima
  • Patent number: 8928684
    Abstract: An overdrive device includes a training unit, an analysis unit and a Contrast adjustment unit. The training unit establishes a luminance difference look-up table (LUT) having an R2 number of luminance differences. Each of the R2 number of luminance differences represents a luminance difference between a measured display luminance value and a target luminance value of a display device when each of first and second viewing angle images correspond to any value of a grayscale range R. With respect to first and second viewing angle input image data, for pixel data therein corresponding to a same pixel position, the analysis unit looks up the luminance difference LUT to obtain a looked-up luminance difference, and accordingly calculates a luminance difference index. The contrast adjustment unit partially adjusts the grayscale of the second viewing angle image according to the luminance value index to obtain headroom for an overdrive operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Guang-Zhi Liu, Jian-De Jiang
  • Publication number: 20150002529
    Abstract: A method of rendering a parametric patch is disclosed. The parametric patch is received. The patch is defined by a geometry and a color varying according to a surface mapping points of the patch to intermediate values. Each of the intermediate values is mapped to a color value according to a shading color function. A set of intermediate values is determined for the patch. The determined set of intermediate values represent an approximation of the shading color function by linear segments. The patch is tessellated into a plurality of cells. Tessellation points are determined for each of the plurality of cells according to the determined set of intermediate values. A further cell is formed for the patch by joining, within each of said plurality of cells, a plurality of the tessellation points being of equal intermediate value and approximating isolines of the surface. The patch is rendered using the intermediate values corresponding to vertices of the further cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jun LIU, Hervé Soulard, Andrew R. Coker
  • Publication number: 20150002530
    Abstract: Provided is a color-scheme determination device with which even people not expert in colors and screen design can evaluate whether or not each type/piece of information constituting a screen has been colored to stand out on the whole screen appropriately corresponding to the degree of importance of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Azusa Yokomizo
  • Publication number: 20150002531
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus for a curved display device are provided. The image processing method includes acquiring physical curvature information related to the display device, determining a center region of an input image based on the physical curvature information, generating a pixel-by-pixel spatial indexed gain based on the determined center region of the input image, and correcting a pixel value of the input image by using the pixel-by-pixel spatial indexed gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-ran PARK, Youn-jin KIM, Seong-wook HAN
  • Publication number: 20150002528
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for optimizing a near-eye display using a waveguide. A first waveband for a first color narrower than the full spectral bandwidth for the first color and a second waveband for a second color adjacent to the first color in the visible spectrum are generated in image light of an image generation unit like a microdisplay. The first waveband and the second waveband are coupled into a same layer of a diffractive waveguide. An input grating of the same layer of the waveguide has a grating wavelength band approximately matching a waveband extensive with the first waveband and the second waveband. A converted green light emitting diode (LED) may be used for obtaining a first waveband centered around 515 nm in some examples. One of more of the wavebands may be obtained using filters, for example filters using dichroic mirrors, quantum dots or a combination of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: David D. Bohn, Ned Nestorovic, Rod G. Fleck, Cynthia Bell
  • Patent number: 8922579
    Abstract: A VCI (visual context indicator) color is assigned deterministically and proactively at runtime to user data contexts, and is not stored in the database, spreadsheet, or other context. VCI colors can be high contrast friendly colors. The same color is assigned to a given context each time the application runs unless the context's identifying property has changed. Color assignments are not made by users or by the application's designer, but are done instead by hashing from a context's identifying property into a VCI color palette containing, e.g., eight to sixteen colors. Unlike text-selection coloring, VCI coloring is based on the user data context's identifying property. The color assignment visually indicates context by displaying the context's name in the VCI color, or by displaying a graphical element in the VCI color near the context name. VCI color assignment also shows the occurrence and result of changes in user data context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zheng Mi, Nigel Christopher Wolters, Hua Wang, Jennifer Lee Beckmann, Joseph Dallas Milan, Steven Merlin Twitchell
  • Patent number: 8922835
    Abstract: A color conversion method is utilized for converting a plurality of source information in a source color space to a plurality of destination information in a destination color space. The color conversion method includes obtaining a first color value and a plurality of second color values of a pixel; performing a computation on at least one converting parameter, the plurality of second color values, a plurality of maximum values and minimum values corresponding to the plurality of destination information to obtain a source maximum value and a source minimum value; generating an adjustment value according to the first color value, the source maximum value, and the source minimum value; and performing a computation for obtaining a plurality of destination color values of the pixel according to the at least one converting parameter, the adjustment value, and the plurality of second color values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Jian-Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 8922603
    Abstract: A multi-primary color display device is capable of handling an increased number of primary colors for color image display with a reduced number of external parts, with reduced increase in the amount of drive circuit and reduced increase in operating speed. An active matrix liquid crystal panel includes a display section constituted by pixel formation portions, each made of four sub pixel-formation portions which handle four primary colors. These four sub pixel-formation portions are arranged in a 2×2 matrix pattern. With such a pixel configuration, a source driver drives as many as M source lines, which is two times the number M of pixels arranged in a horizontal direction. A gate driver is formed on the liquid crystal panel integrally with pixel circuit in the display section, and drives as many as N gate lines, which is two times the number N of the pixels arranged in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemaru, Masahiko Nakamizo, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140375668
    Abstract: In a lookup-table-based green imbalance correction system and method, an image sensor with a color filter array placed thereover outputs raw data. A green imbalance correction device corrects the raw data according to a lookup table stored in a memory, thereby resulting in corrected raw data. A color interpolation device receives the corrected raw data to result in full-color data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Yen-Te Shih
  • Publication number: 20140375670
    Abstract: The optical performance is enhanced of display systems that use field sequential color and pulse width modulation to generate color and color gray scale values. Such enhancement may be achieved by various data encoding methods disclosed herein that may include temporal redistribution of bit values to mitigate color motional artifacts associated with field sequential color-based display systems, selective combination of intensity modulation, pulse width modulation, and/or the noncontiguous sequencing of primary colors. There is further an intelligent real-time dynamic manipulation of gray scale values in portions of an image that are computationally determined to be images of objects moving against a global background, so as to temporally front load or concentrate the bits comprising such moving objects and thereby further mitigate said motional artifacts using both actual and virtual aggregate pulse truncation across all primary colors being modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel K. Van Ostrand, Carey King, Berry Tod Cox
  • Publication number: 20140375667
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are directed to generating visualizations that illustrate various measures of risk associated with a litagion® agent in the context of entire industries or specific to a single party that produces or uses the litagion® agent. A Quindrex™ visualization can illustrate catastrophic risk presented by a risk agent, such as a litagion® agent. For example, the risk agent may be a chemical such as bisphenol A (BPA) or benzene. The visualization can include a plurality of portions, each corresponding to a metric of catastrophic risk associated with the risk agent visualized. A dartboard visualization can illustrate catastrophic risk presented by risk agents produced or used by a party, such as a company. The visualization can include a plurality of portions, such as wedges in a dartboard, each corresponding to a risk agent produced or used by the party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Thomas REVILLE, Joseph Prindle, Lauren Caston
  • Publication number: 20140375671
    Abstract: An image array includes pixels, each representing an image-based feature value of a patient obtained from imaging. The array includes first and second dimensions. Pixels corresponding to a specific patient of a plurality of patients extend in the first dimension and pixels corresponding to a specific feature of a plurality of features extend in the second dimension. Patients represented in the image array are grouped into two or more groups. Each indicates a known condition, such that patients having a first and second conditions are respectively part of a first and a second group and are in a first and a second portion of the array, respectively. The groups are separately organized according to a selected feature. Patients of the first and second groups are respectively arranged in an order of values for the selected feature within the first and second portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    Inventors: Maryellen Giger, Li Lan, Hui Li
  • Publication number: 20140375669
    Abstract: Information processing methods and electronic devices are provided. A method for an electronic device with a display unit may comprise: determining a first environmental light parameter under an environment where the electronic device is disposed; and determining a first display parameter for output by the display unit based on the first environmental light parameter. When the display unit performs display based on the first display parameter, a difference between a first color temperature of the display unit and a second color temperature of the environment may be less than a first preset threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: ZHENHUA ZHANG, KE SHANG, GUANG YANG
  • Patent number: 8917281
    Abstract: An image rendering method is provided, comprising comparing a current image frame with a previous image frame to detect a dynamic change in an object in the image frames, with each image frame being defined by a scene graph and each object having an associated geometric bounding volume. If a dynamic change in an object is detected, the method comprises rendering the object's geometric bounding volume to a stencil buffer for each dynamically changed object, using a stencil value assigned to the current image frame. A stencil is then applied to determine areas in the frames having non-zero stencil values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Rightware Oy
    Inventors: Tuomas Volotinen, Denis Kudinkin
  • Patent number: 8917354
    Abstract: A method for detecting motion in video fields of video data, comprises the steps of: calculating texture information for a pixel in the video fields; determining a threshold value as a function of the calculated texture information; calculating a differential value for the pixel; and detecting motion in the video fields as a function of the determined threshold value and the calculated differential value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongjian Wang, Xin Hu, Xuyun Chen
  • Patent number: 8917282
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the performance of vector-based, fluid motion simulation techniques. The techniques may be implemented in procedural painting algorithms that employ a vector-based, fluid motion simulation technique to help achieve dynamic, serendipitous behaviors of painting at good interactive rates even on relatively low-powered devices. Instead of employing polygons in a procedural painting algorithm that are combinations of pigment and water, a technique may be employed in which the polygons are separated into pigment polygons and water polygons. The water polygons are not rendered; only the pigment polygons are rendered. To improve the performance of the wetness determination at vertices of the pigment polygons, a technique may be used that first rasterizes all of the water polygons into a buffer, which may be referred to as a wetness layer or wetmap; the wetness at a vertex is then determined by sampling this buffer or layer at the vertex's position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen J. DiVerdi, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Radomir Mech
  • Patent number: 8917275
    Abstract: A developer tool is used to programmatically calculate the contrast between the text and background in a user interface. A luminosity ratio is automatically calculated by the tool by capturing an image of a user interface, archiving user interface elements that do not contain text, performing optical character recognition on the remaining user interface elements to find pixels on the text part of the user interface element and pixels on the background part of the user interface element, and finally calculating the luminosity ratio. Results including errors, warnings and luminosity ratio for one or more hotspots in the image can be returned. Results can be used to identify user interface elements that comply or fail to comply with visibility guidelines for contrast between user interface text and background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Matthew Karr, Katherine Ann Corner