Abstract: A source driver includes a first drive channel circuit, a voltage controller and a first programmable voltage buffer unit. The first drive channel circuit receives a first pixel data and a first reference voltage group, for driving the display device. The voltage controller receives a voltage command during a line data transmitting period, a horizontal blanking period or a vertical blanking period for generating a first reference voltage configuration data. The first programmable voltage buffer unit is coupled to the voltage controller and the first drive channel circuit, and receives the first reference voltage configuration data for applying the first reference voltage group to the first drive channel circuit. Furthermore, a method for driving a display device is also provided.

Abstract: In the image processing apparatus, Input transform into an input color space is performed on input image data; After the input transform, transform processing of transforming chroma or chromaticity of the input image data or chroma or chromaticity in the input color space is performed so as to reduce a difference between a space of chroma or chromaticity of the input image data and a space of chroma or chromaticity in the input color space to acquire transformed image data; and Output transform into an output color space is performed on the transformed image data using a three-dimensional lookup table including inverse transform processing of returning the chroma or chromaticity of the transformed image data to the chroma or chromaticity of the input image data to acquire output image data.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate including a display and non-display regions at a periphery of the display region with red, green, blue and white pixel regions as one pixel group formed in the display region, and the display region divided into a first region and a second region; an organic emitting diode in each of the red, green, blue and white pixel regions; first to third power lines respectively disposed at an end of the first region, at an opposite end of the second region and a boundary of the first and second regions and connected to the organic emitting diode; a first drive integrated circuit connected to the first and third power lines; and a second drive integrated circuit connected to the second and third power lines, wherein the first and second regions are symmetric with respect to the third power line.

Abstract: A color correction parameter computation method includes: obtaining first color-signal values respectively corresponding to colors of color patches and obtained by photographing a color chart having the patches thereon, and reference color-signal values respectively defining the colors of the patches; computing, for each color of the patches, a color difference component between the first and the reference color-signal values; selecting at least one color of the patches by comparing the magnitude of the difference components; computing a color correction parameter using the first and the reference color-signal values corresponding to the selected color; computing an accuracy measure using the difference component between a second corrected color-signal value obtained by correcting a first color-signal value corresponding to a color other than the selected color and the reference color-signal value defining the color other than the selected color; and determining correction accuracy by comparing the accuracy m

Abstract: In some embodiments, an option to lock one or more associated cells is provided with respect to each different group of cells in a single sheet of a spreadsheet application. One or more locked cells of a group of cells do not scroll out of view at least while a portion of the group of cells is viewable in a given display view.

Abstract: A technique for enabling display of a source color space on a display color space commences by first receiving source color space information. The source color space information undergoes a conversion into a device independent color space. Once converted into the device independent color space, a LUT or other matrix assigns output colors for the input colors corresponding to the specific display device color space. The LUT or other matrix can be generated with the source material and transmitted to the source display device.

Abstract: A transformation rule of color transformation in an appropriate color space is set even without advanced knowledge and know-how. A three-dimensional lookup table unit transforms color information on an input image signal on the basis of a transformation rule. A correction range calculation unit calculates a correction range in a predetermined color space on the basis of a positional relationship between source coordinates and destination coordinates in the color space. A lattice point transfer distance calculation unit calculates the transformation destination coordinates at respective points on the basis of the positional relationship between the source coordinates and the destination coordinates, and a positional relationship between coordinates at the respective points within the correction range and the source coordinates to reflect the calculated transformation destination coordinates on the transformation rule.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 according to the present invention includes a processing device 12 configured to process an image signal D to be input into a pixel P of a liquid crystal panel 40 configured to provide a display based on light applied from LEDs 54 arranged in a peripheral area R2. The process device 12 includes a receiving section 22, a correction section 24, and a calculation section 28, for example. The calculation section is configured to calculate luminance components to be provided by the respective LEDs 54 to the pixel P based on a distance between each LED 54 and the pixel P, add a total luminance that is a sum of the luminance components to be provided by the LEDs 54 to a predetermined expected luminance to calculate an added luminance, and calculate a correction coefficient HP with respect to the pixel P based on a luminance ratio between the added luminance and the reference luminance.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the selection of a color using a computer-based user interface. In one embodiment, the user interface includes a hue-saturation-brightness (HSB) color field and a luminosity slider. The HSB color field can be a two-dimensional field of a selected hue, with varying degrees of saturation displayed in one dimension, and varying degrees of brightness displayed in the other dimension. The luminosity slider can be a control element that adjusts the luminosity of a color having a selected hue and saturation. In such an embodiment, the HSB color field and the luminosity slider can be operatively coupled, such that modifying the luminosity of a selected color using the luminosity slider causes the resulting modified color to be indicated in the HSB color field. This provides the user with a better sense of how a selected color relates to other similar colors, thereby facilitating color selection.

Abstract: An image display apparatus and an image optimization method are provided. The image display apparatus includes an image content analyzer, a luminance compensator, and an image optimization processor The image content analyzer receives image data and ambient luminance and generates a backlight luminance adjustment value according to the image data and the ambient luminance. The luminance compensator generates an image data luminance adjustment value according to the backlight luminance adjustment value and generates first image data by adjusting the luminance of the image data according to the image data luminance adjustment value. The image optimization processor generates a saturation adjustment weight according to the image data luminance adjustment value. According to the saturation adjustment weight, the image optimization processor generates output image data by adjusting the luminance of the first image data.

Abstract: A method for color reproduction in a display device includes receiving spectral color input to be displayed on the display device. The method additionally includes selecting a primary from a plurality of available primaries that is a closest match of a spectral reflectance of the spectral color input, wherein each of the plurality of available primaries is assigned an association with an associated spectral reflectance. The method also includes displaying the selected primary in a temporal frame of a set of temporal frames for a pixel and passing remaining spectral errors to a next temporal frame of the set of temporal frames. The method further includes passing remaining spectral errors to neighbor pixels for spatial error diffusion at each spectral band after all temporal frames of the set of temporal frames are used.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display that includes a plurality of pixels configured to display four colors, and a color gamut mapping unit configured to convert three color input image signals into four color image signals, wherein when the three color input image signals include yellow, the color gamut mapping unit converts the three color input image signals based on a hue shift of the yellow.

Abstract: An image modulation apparatus includes a device information obtaining unit to obtain device property information of a plurality of display devices respectively disposed at a plurality of image distribution destination apparatuses; a simulated image generator to generate a simulated image to be displayed on each of the display devices disposed at each of the image distribution destination apparatuses based on a distribution target image, to be transmitted to each of the image distribution destination apparatuses, and the device property information of each of the display devices obtained by the device information obtaining unit; and an image modulation unit to modulate the distribution target image based on a modulation instruction prepared for the plurality of the simulated images simulated by the simulated image generator.

Abstract: An image processing device comprises: a first output device having a first color gamut and outputting an image based on a given first color reproduction target value; a second output device having a second color gamut and outputting an image based on a second color reproduction target value; a color gamut information acquirer for acquiring a first color gamut information relating to the first color gamut of the first output device and a second color gamut information relating to the second color gamut of the second output device; and a target value generator for producing a second color reproduction target value for the second output device by correcting the given color reproduction target value for the first output device based on acquired first and second color gamut information by the color gamut information acquirer.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for correcting colors of an image projection device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a photographed image by photographing a sample image projected on projection surface; generating input-output color information for n regions, based on color values of a block in the sample image and corresponding color values of the block in the photographed image; selecting one of the n regions of photographed images as a reference region; generating look-up tables (LUTs) for non-reference regions, based on the reference region and the input and output color information; and correcting colors of input images to be projected by the image projection device using the look-up tables, thereby minimizing color difference of the input images on the projection surface for both intra and inter projection device color correction while simplifying the correction procedure.

Abstract: A color gamut controlling device and a display device including the color gamut controlling device. The color gamut controlling device includes a light sensing unit, a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, and a color gamut calculation unit. The light sensing unit measures a luminance of external light. The first calculation unit calculates adjusted tristimulus values for each of three primary colors based on the measured luminance. The second calculation unit calculates final tristimulus values for each of the three primary colors using the adjusted tristimulus values and target tristimulus values for each of the three primary colors. The color gamut calculation unit calculates a corrected color gamut from the final tristimulus values. The light sensing unit may further measure tristimulus values of the external light for each of the three primary colors.

Abstract: Improving the visibility of the dark portion and to prevent the degradation of image quality caused by excessive correction. A reflectance calculation unit is storing a parameter RGain for adjusting the amplitude of a reflectance component R. An illumination light correction unit generates a corrected illumination light component L1 from an illumination light component L and a formula L1=(log(LAmp*L+1))/(log(LAmp+1)). An image resynthesis unit obtains a corrected illumination light component L? from L?=LGain*L1 +(1?LGain)*L. The image resynthesis unit also calculates a corrected image Tout from the corrected illumination light component L? and the corrected reflectance R?, as well as from a formula Iout=exp(log L?+RGain(log I?log L)). The value of the corrected illumination light component (L?) is determined based on the ratio (LGain) at which the output value of the correction function (L1) and the original illumination light component (L) are combined.

Abstract: A first table, which expresses a color reproducible characteristic of a first output device, is generated, and a second table, which expresses a color reproducible characteristic of a second output device, is generated. Color values of grid points of the first table are mapped to a color gamut of the second output device expressed by the second table. A third table, which expresses a relationship between color values of the first table after mapping processing and device values required to reproduce colors of the color values by the second output device, is generated. With reference to the third table, a profile, which expresses a relationship between color values of grid points arranged on a uniform color space, and device values required to reproduce colors of the color values by the second output device, is generated.

Abstract: A display device includes an image display unit and a conversion processing unit that receives a first input signal including first color information which is obtained based on an input video signal and which is for displaying at a predetermined pixel, and outputs a second input signal including second color information in which a hue of the first color information is varied by an amount of hue variation within a range defined such that hue variation falls within a predetermined range.

Abstract: The display device includes an image display unit including pixels each including first to third sub-pixels and a fourth sub-pixel for displaying an additional color component according to an amount of lighting of a self-emitting element; a conversion processing unit that performs, for all of pixels, an image analysis on first color information for display at a predetermined pixel, and if a predicted value of power consumption as a total amount of lighting of self-emitting elements is above a limit, outputs a second input signal through a color conversion process on a first input signal including the first color information at a color conversion rate associated with the predicted value; and a fourth sub-pixel signal processing unit that outputs, to the image display unit, a third input signal including third color information with converted red, green, blue, and additional color components.

Abstract: A method for viewing a simulated light output generated for a first display on a second display includes a variety of steps. First, the simulated light output is generated based on qualities of the first display. Next, the simulated light output is compensated for color differences, temporal differences, luminance differences including gamma difference, and differences in viewing environment between the first and the second display, in real-time. Then, the simulated light output that has been compensated for the differences and for viewing environment is output for the second display.

Abstract: A device includes converters for converting first image data of an RGB-type into second image data of a YCbCr-type, into third image data of the YCbCr-type, and into fourth image data of the RGB-type, wherein a CbCr-coordinate system has six regions defined by coordinates of a reference color and of six primary colors, and when coordinates of the second image data are located in a region defined by coordinates of the reference color, a first primary color, and a second primary color, the coordinates of the second image data are determined by the coordinates of the reference color, the first primary color, the second primary color, coordinates of a target reference color corresponding to those of the reference color, coordinates of a first target primary color corresponding to those of the first primary color, and coordinates of a second target primary color corresponding to those of the second primary color.

Abstract: Tone and/or gamut mapping apparatus and methods may be applied to map color values in image data for display on a particular display or other downstream device. A mapping algorithm may be selected based on location and/or color coordinates for pixel data being mapped. The apparatus and methods may be configured to map color coordinates differently depending on whether or not a pixel corresponds to a light source in an image and/or has special or reserved color values.

Abstract: A method that generates a chromakey image and then generates a color corrected, spill suppressed chromakey image. The application identifies the edges of non-transparent objects in the image and determines whether the edges are dark. If the edges are dark, then the application subtracts the color corrected, spill suppressed chromakey image from the chromakey image. The subtraction generates an outline image that includes a bright outline of the objects with the dark edges, while the objects themselves in the outline image are almost entirely black. The application then darkens, based on the outline image, the pixels of the color corrected, spill suppressed chromakey image.

Abstract: A device for mapping a color gamut includes a color gamut determinator and a color gamut mapper. The color gamut determinator determines an output color gamut using a gain value corresponding to information of a first color gamut, information of a second color gamut and a control condition. The color gamut mapper converts the color gamut of an input image data into the output color gamut. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a device and method for mapping a color gamut, which can determine an optimal color gamut corresponding to a change in control condition, and accordingly improve color accuracy and color reproducibility.

Abstract: An information processing device, method and program may properly perform gamut conversion of content and be applied to a gamut conversion device. A restoration conversion state confirming unit performs confirmation such as gamut conversion state of image data read out from an optical disc and the existence or not of restoration metadata. An information exchange unit communicates with an output device via a communication unit, and performs information exchange such as the existence or not of restoration processing functionality and gamut conversion functionality and the like. A determining unit determines whether or not restoration processing is performed with a playing device, based on information obtained by the restoration conversion state confirming unit and the information exchange unit.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing display information generates, independently from an operating system, different screen subsections of a screen image using independent gamut remapping configurations to generate an output image in a target gamut space of a display. The method and apparatus also provides the generated output image for display or may display the generated output image.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display unit and M sensing units, and an operating system and K applications based on the operating system are installed on the electronic device, M and K are positive integers. The method includes: detecting N sensed parameters by N sensing units in the M sensing units, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M; determining an object corresponding to the N sensed parameters; recording the N sensed parameters and the object; and adjusting a display parameter for a display object displayed on the display unit according to the N sensed parameters and object that are recorded.

Abstract: A display apparatus and an image correction method of the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels; a sensing unit which senses a display characteristic of an image displayed on the display panels; and an image correction unit which generates non-uniformity correction data corresponding to a plurality of areas included in each of the display panels based on the display characteristic, interpolates non-uniformity correction data corresponding to a boundary area being in contact with a different display panel using non-uniformity correction data corresponding to a neighbor area adjacent to the boundary area, and corrects the image displayed on the display panels based on the generated and interpolated non-uniformity correction data.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for color enhancement via gamut expansion.

Abstract: A first image stream has a first dynamic range and a first color space. First and the second image streams are received in a layered codec. The second image stream has a second dynamic range, which is higher than the first dynamic range. The first image stream is in the codec's base layer; the second image stream is in its enhancement layer. The first image stream is encoded to obtain an encoded image stream, which is decoded to obtain a decoded image stream. The decoded image stream is converted from the first non-linear or linear color space to a second, different color space to obtain a color converted image stream. A higher dynamic range image representation of the color converted image stream is generated to obtain a transformed image stream. Inverse tone mapping parameters are generated based on the transformed image stream and the second image stream.

Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamically detecting and switching profiling configuration in digital rendering. A set of color patches utilized for profiling can be rendered via a calibration engine and the color patches can be measured via inline/offline spectrophotometer. A high-accuracy MFD model can be built based on measurement from the color patches. A set of measurement values for a set of CMYK color probes can be obtained directly from the measurement and/or by processing through a MFD model. A classifier can be configured to determine a toner set based on the predicted and/or measured Lab values. The profiling procedure then automatically sets up a parameter set for the corresponding toner set to build a color look-up table via an inversion and optimization function. A destination ICC profile can be built based on the color LUTs. The system can handle multiple toner sets and produce optimized color outcome for each toner set.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a first reference value generator which generates a first reference value corresponding to a ratio of a chromatic color using image signals or first image signals obtained by gamma-compensating the image signals, a white generator which generates a white image signal and second image signals using the first image signals and a second reference value corresponding to an amount of a white data in use, a third reference value generator which generates a third reference value using a first color coordinate corresponding to a color coordinate of the second image signals, a second color coordinate corresponding to a color coordinate of the white image signal, the first reference value, and the second reference value, and a gamut mapper which maps the second image signals to a color coordinate corresponding to the third reference value to generate third image signals.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first calculation unit, and a conversion unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire image information including first color information that is represented by a first color gamut. The first calculation unit is configured to use information on a color gamut of an image display system that is capable of displaying an image based on the image information to calculate conversion information used for converting the first color information into second color information that is expressed by a second color gamut based on a user's instruction. The conversion unit is configured to use the conversion information to convert the first color information into the second color information.

Abstract: A system and method for compensating for average brightness dependency (ABD) differences between displays with and without average brightness dependency (ABD) includes color correcting source picture content on a reference display to output color corrected picture content. In addition, an ABD simulation process uses the color corrected picture content to simulate the display of content on the reference display. Subsequently, a compensation process receives the color corrected picture content and information from the simulation process and applies an ABD compensation characteristic to the color corrected picture content for correctly displaying the source picture content on a display with different ABD characteristics than the reference display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control section extracting a color composition of each color ranging from a first to an nth color from input image data, on the color composition of an mth color, the m being 1 to n?1, performing a first and a second gamma corrections correcting a gradation of the color composition respectively based on a gamma curve for the mth color to obtain a first corrected gradation value, and based on a gamma curve for an (m+1)th color to obtain a second corrected gradation value, and interpolating the first and the second corrected gradation values to determine an output value for the color composition, on the color composition of the nth color, correcting a gradation of the color composition based on a gamma curve for the nth color to obtain an output value for the color composition.

Abstract: A red, green, and blue (RGB) primary generation system and method for a wide color gamut, and a color encoding system using the RGB primaries. The RGB primary generation system may achieve a wide color gamut by generating a color gamut having a gamut coverage which meets a gamut coverage threshold, meeting a unique hue, having a maximum gamut efficiency, and a minimum quantization error.

Abstract: A method comprising: applying color correction to colors in a first color gamut; displaying, on color space, the second color gamut and color gamut in which the correction is applied to the first color gamut so as to make it possible to distinguish between colors constituting the first color gamut that are determined to be inside of the second color gamut and colors constituting the first color gamut that are determined to be outside of the second color gamut; selecting colors in colors outside of the displayed second color gamut; displaying an interface; determining a correction amount of the selected color in conjunction with the interface; when the selected color is on surface/inside of the second color gamut, displaying that the selected color is on surface/inside of the second color gamut; and applying the correction and generating color conversion information for converting the first color gamut into the second color gamut.

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.

Abstract: There is provided a color processing apparatus comprising: a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of light sources, a first colorimetric value that is obtained by measuring a color having a spectral reflectance indicated by spectral reflectance information under the light source; a mapping unit configured to obtain, for each of the plurality of light sources, a second colorimetric value by mapping the first colorimetric value of the light source within a gamut under the light source; a color separation unit configured to obtain the output information from a plurality of the second colorimetric values, by adjusting the output information such that an error between a colorimetric value obtained by measuring a color output by the image output apparatus according to the output information under each of the light sources and the second colorimetric value for the light source is minimized.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for display-mode-dependent adjustment of image code values.

Abstract: A pixel array structure for populating the display area of a display device includes a repeated first pixel group that consists of one or more first colored subpixels, three or more second colored subpixels and two or more third colored subpixels. The respective numbers of the first colored subpixels, the second colored subpixels, and the third colored subpixels that are provided within the first pixel group are in a respective ratio of 1:3:2. In one embodiment, an input RGB image is remapped to have luminance values corresponding to Cyan-Magenta-Yellow coordinates and the latter are used in combination with subpixel rendering (SPR) to drive the colored subpixels of the pixel array structure.

Abstract: A method and system for adjusting a display unit are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring first status information of the display unit; determining whether the first status information of the display unit is changed and obtaining a first determining result; switching on the ambient light information acquisition unit in a case that the first determining result indicates that the first status information of the display unit is changed; and adjusting a display parameter of the display unit according to ambient light information acquired by the ambient light information acquisition unit. According to the disclosed method and system, the power consumption of ambient light acquisition unit is reduced, and then the power consumption of the electronic device adopting Paper-looking technology is reduced.

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.

Abstract: A color display system providing reduced observer metameric failure for a set of target observers, comprising an image forming system having narrow-band primaries. A data processing system is used to implement a method for color correcting an input color image having input color values adapted for display on a reference display device having a plurality of input color primaries. A metamerism correction transform is applied to the input color image to determine an output color image having output color values in an output color space appropriate for display on the image forming system. The metamerism correction transform modifies colorimetry associated with the input colors to provide output color values such that an average observer metameric failure is reduced for a distribution of target observers.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an image processing apparatus including: first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry sets for first color information in a first color gamut a correction quantity of a brightness defined depending on a lightness and a chroma of the first color information on a basis of a difference between a target brightness and the brightness of the first color information. The second circuitry corrects at least one of the lightness and the chroma of the first color information such that the brightness of the first color information is corrected by the correction quantity to obtain corrected color information in the first color gamut.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for RGB color space gamut conversion, including: projecting any point o in RGB color space having source graphic data onto points N, M, mapped to coordination points in source cube; projecting point o? corresponding to point o onto points N?, M?, mapped to coordination points in target cube; based on coordination points in target cube, computing points N?, M?; based on points N? and M?, computing point o? in target cube corresponding to point o in RGB color space having source graphic data; and computing target color after color conversion from any point in source graphic data. The invention also discloses an apparatus for RGB color space gamut conversion and an LCD device. With this, it is possible to perform color conversion in RGB color space, adjust color performance of output in hue and color purity, and accentuate specific colors.

Abstract: Tone and/or gamut mapping apparatus and methods may be applied to map color values in image data for display on a particular display or other downstream device. A mapping algorithm may be selected based on location and/or color coordinates for pixel data being mapped. The apparatus and methods may be configured to map color coordinates differently depending on whether or not a pixel corresponds to a light source in an image and/or has special or reserved color values.

Abstract: A method of processing an image signal includes: converting a source image signal into an image signal corresponding to a color space for a color gamut mapping; reducing a color gamut of the image signal; and mapping the image signal corresponding to colors within the reduced color gamut into an image signal corresponding to colors within a display color gamut, wherein the colors of the display color gamut are displayed by a display panel.

Abstract: A digital cinema signal is encoded to produce a resulting coded digital cinema bitstream. Decoding the resulting coded digital cinema bitstream allows backwards-compatible delivery of digital cinema content. A digital image or video signal is preprocessed to produce two normalized digital image or video signals of differing quality levels and forward and inverse mapping parameters, which relate the normalized digital image or video signals. The preprocessing can be used prior to the encoding of a digital cinema signal to enable backwards-compatible delivery of digital cinema content.