Gamut Clipping Or Adjustment Patents (Class 345/590)
  • Patent number: 12159370
    Abstract: A method and a system for processing an image and transform it into a high resolution and high-definition image using a computationally efficient image transformation procedure is provided. The transformation of the image comprises transforming a received intensity image into a layered distance field (DF) image including an ordered sequence of multiple layers. Each layer of the layered DF image includes a DF procedure defining DF values at all locations of the received intensity image and rules for mapping these DF values into intensity values of the layer. The intensity image is transformed iteratively until an error between the received intensity image and an intensity image reconstructed from the layered DF image by combining the intensities values of each level in their corresponding order is less than a threshold error value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Ron Perry
  • Patent number: 12155977
    Abstract: A display for displaying image data includes defining virtual color gamuts based on a plurality of primary display colors associated with a light source. At least one of the virtual color gamuts is defined to approximate an established color gamut. Intensity values associated with the virtual color gamuts are generated based on received video data, and the intensity values associated with the virtual color gamuts are used to generate drive values for the primary colors of the light source. A display using one or more virtual color gamuts is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor Davies, Martin J. Richards, Ashley Penna
  • Patent number: 12148343
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi, James M. DeFilippis, Gary B. Mandle
  • Patent number: 12148351
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a substrate; a light-emitting unit on the substrate; an encapsulation layer on a side of the light-emitting unit away from the substrate, where the encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic film layer, a first auxiliary film layer and an organic film layer that are stacked on the light-emitting unit, an absolute value of a difference between a refractive index of the first inorganic film layer and a refractive index of the first auxiliary film layer is less than or equal to 0.05, and an extinction coefficient of the first auxiliary film layer for visible light is less than an extinction coefficient of the first inorganic film layer for visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 12130181
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication section configured to communicate with a colorimeter including a colorimeter display section, and a processing section configured to perform display processing on a terminal display section, wherein the processing section performs determination processing as to whether to display a color of a color measurement result produced by the colorimeter both on the colorimeter display section and the terminal display section or display the color only on the terminal display section based on a distance from the colorimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masami Ishihara
  • Patent number: 12101282
    Abstract: A computing device, a computer program product, and a computer-implemented method for delivering enhanced financial services and, more particularly, for facilitating enhanced network communication between a user and a financial institution via a client device. A digital financial management platform for the client device includes a chat support platform that facilitates an enhanced user chat experience by enabling the dynamic modification of the general aesthetic appearance or configuration of the chat window by user command or request contemporaneously with a virtual chat communication session between a virtual support agent of a financial institution and a user on a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Barath Jayaraman, John Briggs
  • Patent number: 12051353
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dual color management for a multi-pixel density display. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining an image to be shown on a display, where the display includes both a first area that has a first pixel density and a second area that has a second pixel density that is less than the first pixel density, determining that a pixel with an initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display (120), in response to determining that a pixel with the initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, determining a remapped value for the pixel in the image based on the initial value and a lookup table for the first area (130), and providing the remapped value for output on the display (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Wonjae Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12039708
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes executing an initial version of computer game software, the executing step including rendering computer game video images for display; displaying the video images using a head mountable display (HMD); detecting user operation of one or more user controls to perform colour grading adjustments; applying the colour grading adjustments to the video images rendered by the rendering step; and generating colour grading data to be associated with a revised version of the computer game software; in which the executing step and the applying step are performed by different respective data processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Cockram, Anthony Dann
  • Patent number: 12033599
    Abstract: Provided is an image display system that allows many persons to use multiple monitors without feeling color differences between the monitors. An image display system for displaying images on display devices includes multiple display devices, a spectral data acquisition unit, a candidate color matching function acquisition unit, a color difference calculation unit, and a color matching function selection unit. The spectral data acquisition unit is configured to acquire spectral data of the display devices. The candidate color matching function acquisition unit is configured to acquire multiple selection candidate color matching functions that are candidate color matching functions that may be selected by the color matching function selection unit. The color difference calculation unit is configured to calculate color differences between the display devices with respect to each of the selection candidate color matching functions using the spectral data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Maekawa, Kensuke Nagashima, Atsuyoshi Deyama, Yuito Mori, Jun Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11967297
    Abstract: A color modulation method for a display includes: obtaining a group of original RGB data of a pixel of an image; calling a display look-up-table (LUT) to determine whether a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data is present in the display LUT; if in, performing color modulation using the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data; and if not in, using the group of original RGB data, a plurality of groups of selected RGB data, and a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to each group of selected RGB data in combination with a predetermined interpolation algorithm to calculate the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data, and then using the obtained group of RGB mapped data to perform the color modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xian Wang, Masakazu Okamura
  • Patent number: 11854145
    Abstract: The present invention provides an octree-based three-dimensional building model LOD method, specifically comprising the following steps: S1, reading three-dimensional building model data; S2, setting a tree depth Depth parameter of the octree; S3, respectively merging leaf node bounding boxes of the octree according to layers, and establishing coarse grid blocks; S4, merging the coarse grid blocks of the components of each layer; S5, performing triangularization; S6, calculating a normal vector of the coarse grid block; S7, merging the simplified components to form a building model of a coarse grid block; S8, deleting internal vertexes; S9, setting materials or textures; and S10, outputting the three-dimensional building LOD model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SPEED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Jianyong Fan, Biliang Zhu, Zhongjian Xu
  • Patent number: 11856200
    Abstract: A data output apparatus includes: a video decoder that decodes a video stream to generate a first video signal; an external metadata acquisition unit that acquires one or more pieces of metadata corresponding to one or more first conversion modes; an HDR metadata interpreter that interprets one of the one or more pieces of metadata to acquire characteristic data and conversion auxiliary data; a DR converter that supports one or more second conversion modes and performs conversion processing of a luminance range of the first video signal based on the conversion auxiliary data to generate a second video signal; and an HDMI output unit that outputs the second video signal to a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 11830107
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for filtering image colors, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring an image to be filtered, wherein a pixel point in the image to be filtered is represented by a hue value, a saturation value and a value; acquiring a retaining proportion of the pixel point in the image to be filtered, wherein a retaining proportion of any pixel point is used to indicate a degree of a saturation of the pixel point to be retained, and is positively correlated with a similarity between a hue of the pixel point and a hue to be retained of the pixel point; and acquiring a filtered image by adjusting the saturation value of the pixel point in the image to be filtered based on the retaining proportion of the pixel point in the image to be filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanhong Wu, Lijie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11818817
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a controller having a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive an input indicative of a first set of lighting values corresponding to a first color space, map the first set of lighting values corresponding to the first color space to a second set of lighting values corresponding to a second color space, and output the second set of lighting values to a light emitting diode (LED) assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Edwards
  • Patent number: 11755187
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that provide and apply dynamic image filters to modify digital images over time to simulate a dynamical system. Such dynamic image filters can modify a digital image to progress through different frames depicting visual effects mimicking natural and/or artificial qualities of a fluid, gas, chemical, cloud formation, fractal, or various physical matters or phenomena according to a dynamic-simulation function. Upon detecting a selection of a dynamic image filter, the disclosed systems can identify a dynamic-simulation function corresponding to the dynamical system. Based on selecting a portion of the (or entire) digital image at which to apply the dynamic image filter, the disclosed systems incrementally modify the digital image across time steps to simulate the dynamical system according to the dynamic-simulation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg Wilensky, Russell Preston Brown, Michael Kaplan, David Tristram
  • Patent number: 11710440
    Abstract: A display driver that drives a display panel comprises storage circuitry, color addition processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The storage circuitry stores F subpixel data acquired from color coordinate data indicating color coordinates of a displayed color in a predetermined color space displayed on the display panel when an R subpixel, a G subpixel, and a B subpixel in each of a plurality of pixels of the display panel are driven with drive signals corresponding to a minimum grayscale value and an F subpixel in each of the plurality of pixels which displays an additional color other than a primary color R, a primary color G, and a primary color B is driven with a drive signal corresponding to a maximum grayscale value. The color addition processing circuitry generates output FRGB data from input RGB data, in response to the F subpixel data stored in the storage circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11699379
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image, a panel driving block which provides a data signal to the display panel, and a temperature measuring part which measures a temperature of the display panel and provides a measurement temperature to the panel driving block. The panel driving block includes a first memory which stores a reference gamma voltage corresponding to a predetermined reference temperature, a temperature difference calculating part which calculates a temperature difference between the reference temperature and the measurement temperature, and a compensation part which generates a correction gamma voltage by correcting the reference gamma voltage based on the temperature difference between the reference temperature and the measurement temperature. The data signal is generated based on the correction gamma voltage and the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Si-Beak Pyo
  • Patent number: 11693231
    Abstract: A laser beam scanning (“LBS”) display device is configured with an optical system that includes a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam. The optical system also includes a driver configured to generate a driving signal for controlling a mirror, such as a microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”) mirror. The optical system also includes a controller configured to generate a driving signal while rejecting a system disturbance response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Chuan Pu
  • Patent number: 11666823
    Abstract: Conversion components may receive game video rendered in high-dynamic-range (HDR) and standard-dynamic-range (SDR) camera video of a game player. The conversion components may provide local video output to a local display and remote video output for network transmission to remote viewers. The SDR camera video may be converted to HDR and provided with HDR game video in the local video output. For HDR network transmission, the HDR game video and converted HDR camera video may be included in the remote video output. For SDR network transmission, the HDR game video may be converted to SDR and provided with the SDR camera video in the remote video output. The game video, camera video and other video feeds may have respective portals in the local and remote video outputs. The local and remote video outputs may have respective visual portal arrangements that may be at least partially different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Om Prakash Gangwal, Ross Alan Cameron Gardner, Daniel Campanile, Alexander Tyler
  • Patent number: 11624976
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically adjusting a color gamut of a display system, and a display system are provided. The display system includes a light source system and an imaging system. The light source system includes an excitation light source and a narrow-spectrum primary-light source. The imaging system includes a spatial light modulation device and the system for dynamically adjusting the color gamut. The excitation light source emits excitation light which is processed to output at least one broad-spectrum primary light. The narrow-spectrum primary light source outputs narrow-spectrum primary light. The narrow-spectrum primary light and the broad-spectrum primary light are combined and then output to the imaging system. The brightness of light emitted by the excitation light source and the narrow-spectrum primary light source is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Yu, Fei Hu, Xianpeng Zhang, Zuqiang Guo, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11551335
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed using camera devices for deep channel and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) images and formats. In one example, image values are captured by a color sensor array in an image capturing device or camera. The image values provide color channel data. The captured image values by the color sensor array are input to a CNN having at least one CNN layer. The CNN provides CNN channel data for each layer. The color channel data and CNN channel data is to form a deep channel image that stored in a memory. In another example, image values are captured by sensor array. The captured image values by the sensor array are input a CNN having a first CNN layer. An output is generated at the first CNN layer using the captured image values by the color sensor array. The output of the first CNN layer is stored as a feature map of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Xu, Liu Yang, Anbang Yao, Dongqi Cai, Libin Wang, Ping Hu, Shandong Wang, Wenhua Cheng, Yiwen Guo, Yurong Chen
  • Patent number: 11538392
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate, a method for driving the same, a display device, and a fine metal mask, and a display area of the display substrate includes a first display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a high density, and a second display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a low density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Li, Kuo Sun, Lujiang Huangfu, Shanshan Bai
  • Patent number: 11436968
    Abstract: A display driver that drives a display panel comprises storage circuitry, color addition processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The storage circuitry stores F subpixel data acquired from color coordinate data indicating color coordinates of a displayed color in a predetermined color space displayed on the display panel when an R subpixel, a G subpixel, and a B subpixel in each of a plurality of pixels of the display panel are driven with drive signals corresponding to a minimum grayscale value and an F subpixel in each of the plurality of pixels which displays an additional color other than a primary color R, a primary color G, and a primary color B is driven with a drive signal corresponding to a maximum grayscale value. The color addition processing circuitry generates output FRGB data from input RGB data, in response to the F subpixel data stored in the storage circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11425456
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes communication circuitry configured to communicate with an external electronic device, a processor operatively connected with the communication circuitry, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: obtain environment information associated with a video playback environment of the external electronic device, decode a high dynamic range (HDR) video, perform color conversion of the decoded HDR video based on the environment information, encode the color-converted video into a standard dynamic range (SDR) format, and transmit the encoded video to the external electronic device via the communication circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbong Ryu, Minki Kim, Jimin Kim, Hyungsuk Kim, Hyuntaek Lee, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 11409423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that provide and apply dynamic image filters to modify digital images over time to simulate a dynamical system. Such dynamic image filters can modify a digital image to progress through different frames depicting visual effects mimicking natural and/or artificial qualities of a fluid, gas, chemical, cloud formation, fractal, or various physical matters or phenomena according to a dynamic-simulation function. Upon detecting a selection of a dynamic image filter, the disclosed systems can identify a dynamic-simulation function corresponding to the dynamical system. Based on selecting a portion of the (or entire) digital image at which to apply the dynamic image filter, the disclosed systems incrementally modify the digital image across time steps to simulate the dynamical system according to the dynamic-simulation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg Wilensky, Russell Preston Brown, Michael Kaplan, David Tristram
  • Patent number: 11373620
    Abstract: Disclosed is a calibration device and calibration method for display panel brightness-uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhen-Xin Gao, Hong-Yang Ge
  • Patent number: 11361405
    Abstract: Dynamic spread anti-aliasing is described. In some embodiments, a filled object is segmented into control tiles. Along the object border, multiple exterior control tiles respectively correspond to multiple curves forming the border. For each curve, one side is filled and the other is anti-aliased to smooth the appearance of the filled object. Each exterior control tile is expanded to create an expanded control tile having a spread zone that includes additional pixels. For example, a control triangle is transformed into a control rectangle, and the control rectangle is enlarged to create an expanded control rectangle by extending an edge outward and away from the curve on the side to be anti-aliased. The additional pixels of the spread zone are subjected to anti-aliasing, such as by applying alpha modulation to the pixels based on respective distances between the pixels and the curve. For subpixel zoom levels, pixel color can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun Beri, Vineet Batra, Harish Kumar
  • Patent number: 11361474
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a wearable device includes displaying an image with a plurality of pixels for each of three primary colors using the wearable device, and determining RGB and XYZ values for each of the plurality of pixels. The method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of pixels to form a group of grid points, and dividing the image into a group of tile regions, with each tile region including a grid point. Grid XYZ values are determined for each grid point, based on averaging XYZ values of all pixels in a corresponding tile region, and a grid RGB-to-XYZ conversion matrix is determined for each grid point. The method also includes determining a correction matrix for each grid point by multiplying an inverse of the grid RGB-to-XYZ conversion matrix for the grid with an sRGB-to-XYZ conversion matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Lei Zhang, Etienne Gregoire Grossmann, Marshall Charles Capps, Robert Blake Taylor
  • Patent number: 11355078
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel driving method, a driving system and a display device, includes steps: receiving the first color signals, converting the first color signals into the first color space signals; obtaining a current color saturation signal, determining whether the current color saturation signal is in an adjusting color adjustment interval, if the current color saturation signal is in the adjusting color adjustment interval, obtaining the predetermined adjustment coefficients; adjusting and processing the current color saturation signal to receive a second color space signals; converting the second color space signals into the second color signals in the RGB system to drive a display pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11348538
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of optimizing display image quality on display devices having a plurality of display power modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Nandini Mahendran, Ajit Joshi, Shravan Kumar Belagal Math, Sherine Abdelhak
  • Patent number: 11315469
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for driving the same, a display device, and a high-precision metal mask are provided. The display area includes a first display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a high density (e.g., a high resolution), and a second display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a low density (e.g., a low resolution), and a transition display sub-area, with a distribution density of pixels (a resolution) between the distribution density of pixels in the first display sub-area and a distribution density of pixels in the second display sub-area, is arranged between the first display sub-area and the second display sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Li, Lujiang Huangfu, Shanshan Bai, Kuo Sun
  • Patent number: 11301972
    Abstract: A method for adjusting color saturation can determine a saturation adjustment from metadata that specifies an adjustment of color saturation based on a first display and from precomputed data, such as data in one or more look-up tables, that specifies a relationship between image data in a first color space and image data in a second color space. An input image in the first color space is converted into an image in the second color space, and the color saturation is adjusted while the image data is in the second color space, which can be a geometrically non-symmetrical color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Partin, Kimball Darr Thurston, III, Robin Atkins
  • Patent number: 11276340
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices that support a dynamic screen refresh rate are described. An electronic device may dynamically (e.g., autonomously, while operating) adjust the rate at which a screen is refreshed, such as to balance considerations such as user experience and power consumption by the electronic device. For example, the electronic device may use an increased refresh rate when executing applications for which user experience is enhanced by a higher refresh rate and may use a decreased refresh rate when executing other applications. As another example, the electronic device may use different refresh rates while executing different portions of the same application, as some aspects of an application (e.g., more intense portions of a video game) may benefit more than others from a higher refresh rate. The electronic device may also account of rother factors, such as battery level, when setting or adjusting the refresh rate of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Ranjan, Carly M. Wantulok, Prateek Trivedi, Carla L. Christensen, Jun Huang, Avani F. Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11276140
    Abstract: Computer implemented method for digital image data, digital video data or digital audio data enhancement, and a computer implemented method for encoding or decoding this data in particular for transmission or storage, wherein an element representing a part of said digital data comprises an indication of a position of the element in an ordered input data of a plurality of data elements, wherein a plurality of elements is transformed to a representation depending on an invertible linear mapping, wherein the invertible linear mapping maps the input of the plurality of elements to the representation, wherein the invertible linear mapping comprises at least one autoregressive convolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Emiel Hoogeboom, Dan Zhang, Max Welling
  • Patent number: 11223809
    Abstract: Techniques described herein include capturing a plurality of frames associated with a video file, capturing an image corresponding to one of the plurality of frames, generating a color map between the captured image and a corresponding frame of the plurality of frames, where the color map is based on a color and a tone of the captured image and a color and tone of the corresponding frame, tone correcting one or more selected frames associated with the video file based on the color map, and color correcting the one or more selected frames based on the color map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Li Wei, Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11202091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for encoding/decoding a quantization coefficient, and to an apparatus using same. The decoding method can include the steps of: decoding initial quantization parameter information and quantization parameter range information of a slice; and obtaining a quantization parameter limitation range applied to an encoding unit included in the slice using the initial quantization parameter information and the quantization parameter range information. Accordingly, the efficiency of encoding and decoding an image can be improved during encoding/decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Sun Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11184507
    Abstract: System and techniques for adaptive color transformation to aid computer vision are described herein. Colors from an image are mapped into a multi-dimensional space to create a distribution of colors in the image. A line can be fit to the distribution. Here, the line includes an angle relative to a coordinate system of the multi-dimensional space. A transformation to colors can then be applied to the image based on the angle of the line. The transformation producing a reduced image where a color complexity of the original image is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Raven Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuri Sneyders, John D. Preheim, Jeffrey Allen Van Roekel
  • Patent number: 11144702
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of generating a die tensor of a wafer from a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) file. According to the method, a segmentation engine segments a wireframe image obtained from the CAD file into a plurality of entities. An image transformation engine performs a transform on each of the plurality of entities based on at least one of the wireframe image, metrology, a design specification, process information, and optical information. The transform is performed iteratively based on the optical information. A stitch engine generates a die tensor, having a predefined number of slices, by combining each of the transformed plurality of entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mintu Dutta, Sameera Bharadwaja Hayavadana, Shashank Shrikant Agashe, Rathish Balagangadhar, Anmol Varma, Heon Ju Shin
  • Patent number: 11126560
    Abstract: A system-on-chip module for avoiding redundant memory access is provided, comprising at least one microprocessor, a DRAM and a DRAM controller. The DRAM and the microprocessor are integrated and formed in the system-on-chip module commonly. The DRAM controller is electrically connected between the DRAM and the microprocessor, and includes at least one column cache unit such that each microprocessor is able to perform read or write command to the DRAM through its corresponding column cache unit. Compared with the prior arts, the present invention is beneficial to provide better data access quality, efficiency and lower cost and complexity of the system architecture. Thus, the present invention is believed to be applied widely and having greater industrial applicability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SYNTRONIX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chong Jen Huang, Yung Cheng Su
  • Patent number: 11120757
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gray scale adjustment method and device for a display panel. The method includes: performing an image acquisition on the display panel to obtain a current image; identifying a relationship between a sum of gray scale values of all pixels in the current image and a target value by a distinguishing method, in order to identify an uneven block in the current image; detecting an original output luminance and an original input gray scale of the uneven block; determining a target input gray scale corresponding to a preset target luminance according to an actual gamma curve value obtained by testing the display panel; and taking a difference between the original input gray scale and the target input gray scale as a gray scale compensation value of the uneven block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11107402
    Abstract: A display panel including a first display area, a display transition area, and a second display area is provided. A first type of the first display area is different from a second type of the second display area. The first display area and the second display area are disposed at two opposite sides of the display transition area. The display transition area includes a plurality of display transition unit areas extending in a direction from the first display area to the second display area. The plurality of display transition unit areas are sequentially arranged adjacent to one another. In a full-screen display, luminance of the first display area, the plurality of display transition unit areas and the second display area display increases or decreases sequentially, and luminance of different display transition unit areas is different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Zhu, Liping Shen, Xinnan Wang, Lin Xu
  • Patent number: 11062642
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a memory that stores correspondence to convert an image quality of an image signal; and at least one processor that operates as: an input unit that inputs a first image signal having a first image quality; a generation unit; and a display unit that displays the first image signal and the image signal generated by the generation unit, wherein in the case of the memory storing correspondence to generate a second image signal having a second image quality from the first image signal, the generation unit generates the second image signal from the first image signal in accordance with the correspondence, and in the case of the memory not storing the correspondence to generate the second image signal from the first image signal, the generation unit generates a third image signal by performing a predetermined luminance conversion on the first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Urabe, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11049522
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to providing a digital media editing environment for editing at least a portion of a digital video using a mobile device, establishing communication between the mobile device and a data source, receiving, from the data source, a first portion of the digital video, the first portion including a first set of frames including less than all frames of the digital video, applying an edit to the first portion of the digital video, while less than all frames of the first digital video are stored on the mobile device, subsequent to applying the at least one edit, receiving, from the data source, a second portion of the digital video, the second portion including a second set of frames, and storing an edited digital video including at least one frame of the first set of frames, at least one frame of the second set of frames, and the edit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Trey Moore, Ross Chinni, Devin McKaskle
  • Patent number: 11032528
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating gamut mapping architecture and processing for color reproduction in image processing environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to: compute one or more of gamut boundary descriptors and mapping configurations associated with a colored image captured using one or more cameras; and perform gamut mapping of color representation of the image based on the one or more of the gamut boundary descriptors and the mapping configurations, wherein the gamut mapping to facilitate color reproduction of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noha El-Yamany
  • Patent number: 11004410
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a gamma generator configured to change a dividing ratio of a high gamma curve and a low gamma curve applied to the high sub-pixel and the low sub-pixel based on a position of the first sub-pixel and to generate a high gamma data corresponding to the high gamma curve and a low gamma data corresponding to the low gamma curve, and a data driver configured to convert the high gamma data and the low gamma data to a high data voltage and a low data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinpil Kim, Hoisik Moon, Byoung Seok Yoo, Youngsuk Ha
  • Patent number: 10999607
    Abstract: The present principles are directed to a parameterized OETF/EOTF for processing images and video. The present principles provide a method for encoding a picture, comprising: applying a parameterized transfer function to a luminance (L) signal of the picture to determine a resulting V(L) transformed signal; encoding the resulting V(L); wherein the parameterized transfer function is adjusted based on a plurality of parameters to model one of a plurality of transfer functions. The present principles also provide for a method for decoding a digital picture, the method comprising: receiving the digital picture; applying a parameterized transfer function to the digital picture to determine a luminance (L) signal of the digital picture, the parameterized transfer function being based on a plurality of parameters; wherein the parameterized transfer function is adjusted based on a plurality of parameters to model one of a plurality of transfer functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Erik Reinhard, Pierre Andrivon, Philippe Bordes, Christophe Chevance, Jurgen Stauder, Patrick Morvan, Edouard Francois, Joaquin Zepeda Salvatierra
  • Patent number: 10990051
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image transfer device for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member to a sheet, an application device for applying a transfer voltage to the image transfer device, and a controller for controlling an output mode operation for outputting a predetermined chart in which test halftone toner images transferred with different transfer voltages are formed to adjust the transfer voltage. When outputting a maximum size of the chart, the controller forms the test toner images in a region within 50 mm from an edge in a width direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Haruhiko Omata, Tatsuomi Murayama
  • Patent number: 10971085
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of optimizing display image quality on display devices having a plurality of display power modes. Each power mode has associated therewith a respective baseline allowable percentage of distorted pixels and a baseline first relationship between an original pixel value and boosted pixel value. Display control circuitry determines a baseline second relationship using the baseline percentage of distorted pixels and the baseline first relationship. The display control circuitry selects a plurality of test distorted original pixel values and determines a respective test first relationship. Using the test distorted original pixel value, the respective test first relationship, and the baseline second relationship, the display control circuitry determines a respective PSNR and value indicative of the change in display image quality for each of the test distorted original pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Nandini Mahendran, Ajit Joshi, Shravan Kumar Belagal Math, Sherine Abdelhak
  • Patent number: 10957235
    Abstract: A color mapping and correction scheme for processing pixel data allows a display device to account for color shift. The display device drives its light emitters with different current levels. The light emitters exhibit a color shift in gamut. As such, the display device generate light of two different color gamut regions. An input pixel data may include an original color coordinate that is beyond a common color gamut that is common to the two gamut regions. A mapping scheme is used to convert the original color coordinate to an updated color coordinate within the common color gamut. A first output color coordinate that corrected for the shift in first emitters is generated for the operation of the first light emitters based on the updated color coordinate. A second output color coordinate that corrected for the shift in second emitters is also generated based on the updated color coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 10944948
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processor including correction circuitry configured to correct a signal for each color input to the signal processor and to output the corrected signal for each color, first conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform first image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a first signal having a first color gamut for each color, second conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform second image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a second signal having a second color gamut for each color, where the signal processor outputs a first image data having a first color gamut and a second image data having a second color gamut from same corrected signals for each color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kamiya, Norihiko Kawada, Yuki Matsuoka