Color Selection Patents (Class 345/593)
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Publication number: 20150002532Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A display device (10) includes a display unit and a separation unit (34). The display unit displays a synthetic image formed by dividing each of a plurality of images that are different from one another and arraying the divisional images thus obtained in a predetermined order. The separation unit (34) separates the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The display unit includes a storage unit (54) and a correction unit (52). The storage unit (54) stores crosstalk levels used when gray scale level data of a pixel displaying an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image, are corrected. The correction unit (52) corrects the gray scale level data of the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see, by using the crosstalk levels stored in the storage unit (54).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20150002533Abstract: A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or more coordinating colors, the coordinating colors being predetermined based on the first color and a color coordination algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Behr Process CorporationInventors: Mary Rose Rice, Damien Reynolds, Marc Webb
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Patent number: 8922579Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Zheng Mi, Nigel Christopher Wolters, Hua Wang, Jennifer Lee Beckmann, Joseph Dallas Milan, Steven Merlin Twitchell
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Publication number: 20140375674Abstract: A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or more coordinating colors, the coordinating colors being predetermined based on the first color and a color coordination algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: BEHR PROCESS CORPORATIONInventors: Mary Rose Rice, Damien Reynolds, Marc Webb
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Publication number: 20140368530Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing a selection of light conditions under which to view digitally depicted objects on a client device. For example, where website provides a digital color picture of an object, the invention provides selections on a display device to view the object in different simulated lighting conditions thereby enabling an object's color to be viewed as it will appear when illuminated under various light conditions. In accordance with embodiments of the invention disclosed herein, methods and systems are provided for an application on a user device that changes the color settings and/or white point settings of the user device's display, or portions of the user device's display, so that photographs of items may be presented on the user device's display as if the photographs were taken under various lighting conditions, such as sunlight, incandescent light, fluorescent light, candle light, and/or other light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: J. Michael James, Eric Brumm
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Patent number: 8913076Abstract: A method and apparatus to improve the usability of thumbnails. In an embodiment, a computer implemented method for creating a thumbnail comprises generating a snapshot representing at least a portion of a view containing a plurality of windows, where each window has a window attribute, scaling the snapshot to a reduced size to form a thumbnail, and enhancing a representation of each window represented in the thumbnail based upon the window attribute of each window in the plurality of windows.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Anurag Aggarwal, Kriti Agarwal
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Publication number: 20140362104Abstract: Technologies are generally provided for a set of data structures and font design techniques residing in a font file that enables the rich use of color that can be scaled for many devices with many resolutions and displayed on many types of colored backgrounds. Glyphs in a font may be ordered to provide z-ordering of layered color data. Multiple palettes may be provided within a font to handle multiple scenarios, including varying backgrounds. Furthermore, operating system text color choice may be integrated with the font designer's choice of colors, and the colored elements in a glyph may be hinted to improve the display of color on many different devices. A fall back to a non-colored glyph may also be provided when color is not supported on a platform or application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Gregory Hitchcock, Niklas Borson, Tanya Matskewich
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Patent number: 8908963Abstract: An image processing apparatus for applying to a color image a pattern corresponding to a color of the color image includes a pattern determination section that determines a hatch pattern having a foreground and a background which serves as a pattern in accordance with a color of a pixel in the color image, a color value determination section that determines a color value of a color material to be assigned to the foreground and the background in the hatch pattern, and an image processing section that replaces the color of the pixel in the color image with a color value of a color material, the color values of the foreground and the background in the hatch pattern are different, and the color value determination section determines the color value of the color material per unit area in the hatch pattern determined such that a chromatic value.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Satoru Ono
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Patent number: 8902182Abstract: A method comprises detecting, by a portable electronic device having a display, a gesture, selecting a category of selectable items based on the gesture. The method further comprises identifying one or more selectable items within the selected category to be displayed, and displaying the one or more selectable items.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Daniel Tobias Rydenhag, Robert Simon Lessing, Donald James Lindsay, Devin Jay Kaiser
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Patent number: 8902184Abstract: A method comprises detecting, by a portable electronic device having a display, a gesture, selecting a category of selectable items based on the gesture. The method further comprises identifying one or more selectable items within the selected category to be displayed, and displaying the one or more selectable items.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Daniel Tobias Rydenhag, Robert Simon Lessing, Donald James Lindsay, Devin Jay Kaiser
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Publication number: 20140347352Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems for processing, rendering and displaying plenoptic images are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method comprising storing a plenoptic image in a non-transitory computer readable memory associated with a processor, receiving at the processor a viewing position information, processing the plenoptic image and the viewing position information to render a visual output based upon information of the plenoptic image and the viewing position information, performing a blending or smoothing function on information of the plenoptic image including weighting each of a plurality of pixels of the plenoptic image based upon a first color value associated with each pixel and a set of second color values associated with a plurality of neighboring pixels, and displaying the visual output on a display device. The visual output displayed on the display device varies as a function of the viewing position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Indiana University Research & Technology CorporationInventors: Andrew Lumsdaine, Tod J. Curtis
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Patent number: 8897552Abstract: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of tools and techniques for setting color settings of an operating system using one or more photographs. According to one exemplary technique, a photograph is received, and one or more pixel weights for one or more pixels of the photograph are determined. Also, using at least one of the one or more pixel weights, at least one dominant color of the photograph is determined. Additionally, using the at least one dominant color, at least one color setting of an operating system is set.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joshua Phillips, Simon Baker
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Patent number: 8891864Abstract: Some embodiments provide a program that provides a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a display area for displaying an image that includes several pixels. Each pixel includes a set of pixel values in a three-dimensional color space. The GUI includes a first selectable GUI item for activating a color masking tool (1) for selecting a set of pixels in the image and (2) for defining a three-dimensional volume to encompass the pixel values of the set of pixels in the three-dimensional color space. The three-dimensional volume serves as an approximation of a rectangular cuboid that has at least one rounded corner. The GUI includes a second selectable GUI item for applying a color correction operation to the image by modifying pixels in the image that have pixel values encompassed by the three-dimensional volume in the three-dimensional color space.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel Pettigrew, Andrew Bryant
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Patent number: 8890886Abstract: An application determines a colorization strategy for its graphical user interface according to colors of an input image. In particular, given one or more colors from the input image, and a plurality of elements of the graphical user interface, the colors for the elements of the graphical user interface are selected.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Kriese, J Craig Hally, Georgi Tonev, Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian
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Publication number: 20140333659Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store respective profiles representing visual characteristics of each of a plurality of persons; and a correction unit configured to perform color correction processing on image data on the basis of the plurality of profiles corresponding to the plurality of persons stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryoji Yoshie
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Publication number: 20140333660Abstract: An emulator yields modified image data that predicts the appearance of image content on a target display. The emulator generates modified image data based in part on the image content. The emulator may perform a transformation in which one or more parameters representative of features such as black level and/or white level of the target display are functions of image statistics for the image content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATIONInventors: Anders Ballestad, Robin Atkins, Lewis Johnson
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Patent number: 8882278Abstract: A reprojection system which allows a projection to be displayed onto a display screen, and reprojected by that display screen. The display is received on the surface that itself displays, and it is then redisplayed on the surface. The redisplay can be at the same size or at a different size as the original projection. Preferably the redisplay is at the same relative intensity but a brighter actual intensity than the original display. The information is can be received and redisplayed in a number of different ways.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Harris Technology, LLCInventor: Scott C. Harris
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Patent number: 8884980Abstract: A system and method for digital hair coloring is described. A starting image of a subject including a hair region is obtained. At least one foreground selection of the starting image is obtained, the foreground selection including a portion of the hair region. At least one background selection of the starting image excluding the hair region is obtained. A matte defining a calculated foreground area of the starting image is calculated based on the foreground selection and the background selection. A target color distribution based on a target hair color is obtained. A color image is generated by applying a color transformation based on the target color distribution to at least the calculated foreground area of the starting image. An output image is generated from the colored image and the starting image.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Taaz, Inc.Inventors: Satya P. Mallick, Hui Qiao, David Kriegman
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Publication number: 20140327693Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for processing an on-screen display (OSD), the apparatus including: a buffer unit receiving first dynamic guideline image information, a color determining unit determining colors for previously divided sections included in the first dynamic guideline image information from the buffering unit, and an image synthesizing unit synthesizing second dynamic guideline image information having the colors for each of the sections, determined by the color determining unit with an image from a camera. With the apparatus for processing an OSD, a user freely sets colors of a warning message, a static guideline, and a dynamic guideline, whereby the warning message, the static guideline, and the dynamic guideline can be displayed on a screen without obscuring a rearview image. In addition, a dynamic guideline can be set as different colors according to sections divided into distances from the rear of a vehicle and an image can be continuously displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Gyu Won KIM, In Taek SONG
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Publication number: 20140327692Abstract: Reducing energy usage by a monitor includes a map manager between a monitor interface and a processor that divides a display area of a monitor into areas and stores display information in a staging area. The map manager distinguishes an active window selected by a user from the remainder inactive, unselected areas of a display, and further determines a used subset of areas within the active window distinguished from the remainder unused areas as a function of a user preference. Accordingly, the map manager drives the monitor at each of the used area active window areas with the processor display information stored in the staging area at a normal luminance specified by the processor display information, and at each of the remainder unused, inactive and unselected areas of the total display area at a reduced luminance lower than the specified normal luminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Kamlesh K. Mishra, Sanjay Kumar
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Patent number: 8878868Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having: a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen; a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and a changing unit for changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Daisuke Kurosaki, Akiko Tsuzuki, Naoshi Koizumi, Tomoyuki Kitagawa, Tomohiro Tsuyuhara
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Patent number: 8866835Abstract: A color adjustment system for a display device includes a computer device, and a display device for displaying an image. The display device selectably displays a plurality of color temperature color presets. The computer device makes a white point adjustment to the display device, based on a color temperature color preset selected from among the plurality of color temperature color presets by a selecting operation from the computer device.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki Tanizoe, Hidenori Sakai, Yasuhiro Arakawa, Hiroshi Ueno
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Patent number: 8860748Abstract: A method and apparatus to automatically generate a customized color palette receives data corresponding to several physical attributes of a living subject, such as hair, skin and eyes and conducts an analysis uniquely corresponding to each attribute, and may associate each attribute with at least one property such as a color family, a technical identifier, an intensifier, a temperature, a power color, and a saturation designation. Software may identify the color linked to each attribute by, for example, an LAB value, an RGB value, an HTML value, an XYZ value or a CMY value, while an intensifier may be a contrasting color, and saturation may indicate whether the color linked to the attribute is a tone, tint, shade or hue. A color palette uniquely compatible with the subject may be presented by print media, monitor, printer, cell phone, personal digital assistant, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Inventors: Gary Lynn Campbell, Susan Lynn Stucki
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Patent number: 8860749Abstract: A computer-implemented method for icon generation. The method comprises determining a color from a first icon, generating a colored region comprising the determined color, and generating a composite image of the colored region and the first icon to produce a second icon, wherein the second icon is larger than the first icon.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alex Neely Ainslie, David Trainor
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Publication number: 20140300623Abstract: A method for displaying a photomap performed by a navigation system, the method comprising: loading a photomap and a numerical map from a map data storage; matching reference points between the photomap and the numerical map; matching a scale of the numerical map in line with a scale of the photomap; and extracting object information from the numerical map; and composing the object information and the photomap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: HYUNDAI MNSOFT, Inc.Inventor: Sang Hun KIM
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Patent number: 8847973Abstract: A method for processing an image such as a computer wallpaper identifies a characteristic color representative of the image. Image pixels with similar colors are separated into groups, and the average value of the R,G,B color components in each group is determined, after filtering out pixels with R,G,B values representing white, black, or grey. The group with the maximum difference between the highest average color component value and the lowest average color component value is identified as the characteristic color. Groups representing a number of pixels less than a certain percentage of all of the pixels are not considered. The characteristic color can be used in other displayed images at an intensity ? determined by setting maximum and minimum values of ?, with ? being the lesser of ?max and ?min plus the average color span of all pixels in the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Calandrino, Rick Duncan, Kyle Beck, Sanjeev Verma, David Perry
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Patent number: 8842130Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for performing automated color authoring for images of items having multiple color variations. A photographically captured source image of an item is obtained. The source image corresponds to one color variation of the item. A selection mask defining the item in the source image is obtained. A target image of the item corresponding to another color variation is generated by automatically transforming the item defined by the selection mask in the source image to the other color variation based at least in part on data obtained from multiple previous manual color variation transformations for multiple other items.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gil Blank, Gregory James Nyssen, Jules Cook Graybill
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Publication number: 20140267365Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventor: Huanzhao ZENG
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Publication number: 20140267364Abstract: A method for virtually painting an image, the method comprising providing an image having a plurality of image pixel units, generating luminosity values based on color data (e.g., RGB triplets and LAB triplets) from the image pixel units, receiving a selection of one of the image pixel units, and setting a reference luminosity value based at least in part on a luminosity value of the selected image pixel unit (corresponding to a desired midpoint brightness). The method also comprises receiving a selection of a new color for virtually painting the image, calculating luminosity differences between the reference luminosity value and the luminosity values of the image pixel units, and generating and displaying overlay pixel units as an overlay with the image based on the calculated luminosity differences and the selected new color.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Valspar Sourcing, Inc.Inventor: Anne E. Lapinski
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Publication number: 20140267366Abstract: A graphics processing pipeline within a parallel processing unit (PPU) is configured to perform path rendering by generating a collection of graphics primitives that represent each path to be rendered. The graphics processing pipeline determines the coverage of each primitive at a number of stencil sample locations within each different pixel. Then, the graphics processing pipeline reduces the number of stencil samples down to a smaller number of color samples, for each pixel. The graphics processing pipeline is configured to modulate a given color sample associated with a given pixel based on the color values of any graphics primitives that cover the stencil samples from which the color sample was reduced. The final color of the pixel is determined by downsampling the color samples associated with the pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey A. BOLZ, Mark J. KILGARD, Henry Packard MORETON, Rui M. BASTOS, Eric B. LUM
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Publication number: 20140247274Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a signal receiving section which is configured to receive a biological signal; a displaying section which is configured to display at least one index corresponding to the biological signal; and a display controlling section which is configured to change a color of the index in accordance with the biological signal, the color corresponding to a color in a triage tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya NAGATA
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Patent number: 8817037Abstract: Techniques for generating three dimensional image data with brushstroke effects from a two dimensional image is disclosed. One or more three dimensional brushstroke patterns from at least one brushstroke are generated. A two dimensional image is partitioned into one or more color regions. For each color region, each three dimensional brushstroke pattern is transformed to obtain a brushstroke effect. Each transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern is then applied to each color region to generate a three dimensional image data having the brushstroke effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research and Industry-University Cooperation FoundationInventor: Il Dong Yun
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Patent number: 8810596Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for applying an effect to a digital image using a cursor. An effect can be applied to an image at a region under a cursor. The cursor has an outer periphery and an effect indicating periphery within the outer periphery. The outer periphery defines a maximum extent to which the effect is applied. The effect indicating periphery indicates how the effect will be applied to the image, such as providing a visual indication of a softness setting.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Douglas Joseph Ahmann, Mark Lee Kawano
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Publication number: 20140225912Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for spectral color processing for multi-primary display devices. In one aspect, the display device can include display elements and a processor. The processor can create an output color palette of colors and transform the output color palette to a spectral space color palette. The processor also can receive data on an input color to be output by the display device, separate the input color into a combination of the primary colors that can create the input color, and transform the input color to the spectral space. Furthermore, the processor can select a color in the spectral space color palette based at least in part on the input color in the spectral space. The selected color can reduce metamerism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alok Govil, Pouya Bastani, Behnam Bastani
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Publication number: 20140218389Abstract: Various baseline security measurements of assets are collected and calculated by the system. A user creates a what-if scenario by changing one or more baseline security measurements. The system generates interactive, animated graphs that compare the baseline security measurements against the what-if scenario.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: ALLGRESS, INC.Inventors: Jeff Bennett, Mike Stager, Gordon Shevlin, William Tang
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Publication number: 20140218387Abstract: System and method for view navigation guidance system for a physical display that is smaller than the virtual display it needs to display. Guidance map placed in a heads-up display layer within a small user defined area of the physical display provides an instantaneous indication of the current position of the screen view with minimal obstruction of the contents information. Color selection for the guidance map is automatically determined based on the background color in the main display layer beneath the map. The guidance map area on a touch screen display may include tapping controls, and the position of the guidance map can be dynamically altered by the user during the view navigation to control the navigation parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: INNOVENTIONS, INC.Inventor: David Y. Feinstein
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Publication number: 20140210848Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a memory, and a preparation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from a display device that displays an image on a display screen, device information peculiar to the display device. The memory stores reference data used to prepare a reference image to be displayed by the display device. The preparation unit prepares output image data including the reference image using the device information acquired by the acquisition unit and the reference data read from the memory to output the output image data to the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro IWAFUCHI, Noriko SAKAI, Daigo HAMA
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Patent number: 8789952Abstract: An image processing device generates image data of a projection image displayed on a screen having a color obtained by correcting a color of original data representing an image to be displayed so that the projection image has a desired color. The image processing device includes a storage section adapted to store a spectral reflectivity of the screen, a designation section adapted to designate a type of an outside light in an installation environment of the screen, a correction light determination section adapted to determine a correction light using a spectral distribution of the reflected light obtained based on the spectral reflectivity and a spectral distribution of the outside light, and a color correction section adapted to generate the image data using the original data and data of a spectral distribution of the correction light.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Junichi Okamoto, Masashi Kanai, Satoshi Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20140204112Abstract: A method or computer program product for color selection in a color image, including operations or instructions for selecting a base color in a base color portion of a color image; computing a perceptual color difference between the base color and a respective second color in the color image; comparing the perceptual color difference to a tolerance; and, identifying whether the color difference satisfies the tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: COREL CORPORATION, Inc.Inventor: Bruce J. LINDBLOOM
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Publication number: 20140198125Abstract: A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or more coordinating colors, the coordinating colors being predetermined based on the first color and a color coordination algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Mary Rose Rice, Damien Reynolds, Marc Webb
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Patent number: 8780132Abstract: Provided herein is a method for enhanced visualization including the steps of: inputting a 3-D data set, encoding data values with dip information from a plurality of orientations, providing a color look-up table that displays subsets of the encoded data outcomes for each orientation, selecting a color look-up table to use is response to the viewing-orientation of the data set, and displaying the data set in a given orientation using the selected color look-up table. An apparatus and system of the present invention is realized through a computer program or system coded based upon the method disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Inventor: Charles Saron Knobloch
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Patent number: 8760462Abstract: The present invention relates to a unique color management method for calibrating and characterizing a light mixing system comprising a set of primary light modules emitting self-luminous color primaries, which may be intimately mixed to produce a batch color that matches a standard color. The radiant output of each self-luminous color primary, or channel, is modulated by a setting a light controller to a Digital-to-Analog-Conversion (“DAC”) value. In the event that the radiant output of the color primary channels is non-linearly proportioned to the DAC input values, it is useful to employ an innovative “iterative best-fit” method of simultaneously calculating admixtures of light from all color primaries that match a standard color. Otherwise, a matrix method based on matrix algebra may also be used to create a batch color that matches a standard color. A best fit tristimulus value method or best fit minimum RMSD can be used in conjunction with these spectral color matching methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Columbia Insurance CompanyInventors: Patrick Tak Fu Chong, Hugh Fairman
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Patent number: 8760463Abstract: The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of a color from one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. Colors of the selected template design are automatically adjusted to match the selected the color from the source image. The selected template design may include framing, mat, background, and foreground portions, at least one of which is adjusted. After automatically adjusting the colors, the selected template design may be displayed and/or stored for use as a template.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Eric Edwards, Clay Harvey Fisher
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Publication number: 20140168253Abstract: A color processing apparatus comprises a storage which stores color information of a reference sample and the color characteristic of a monitor, a patch control unit which generates a plurality of color patch data having different colors based on the color information of the reference sample, and changes at least some of the plurality of color patch data based on a user instruction, and a patch output unit which corrects the plurality of color patch data based on the color characteristic of the monitor to output the plurality of corrected color patch data to the monitor. The patch control unit determines whether to acquire a color matching relation in a combination of the reference sample and the color patch data. When it is determined to acquire the color matching relation, the color matching relation in the combination is stored in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kimitaka Arai, Yoshihiro Manabe
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Patent number: 8755843Abstract: A portable telephone includes key backlight light-emitting units 41, 42 that are provided corresponding to a plurality of operation keys 31, 32 and control unit 5 that instructs key backlight light-emitting units 41, 42 about the colors of the light that is to be emitted. Key backlight light-emitting units 41, 42 respectively include a plurality of light-emitting devices 411, 421 that produce different colors and lighting control units 412, 422 that control the plurality of light-emitting devices 411, 421 in accordance with instructions from control unit 5. Control unit 5 instructs to cause light to be emitted in a specified color to key backlight light-emitting units that correspond to one or a plurality of operation keys and instructs to cause light to be emitted in colors other than the specified color to key backlight light-emitting units other than the key backlight light-emitting units that are lighted in the specified color.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Toba
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Patent number: 8749813Abstract: Encoding a graphical element for processing can utilize an edge pair format in which the graphical element is divided into multiple objects, where each object contains exactly two edges which do not cross or self-intersect. Another format is a run-length encoding (RLE) format in which the graphical element is divided into multiple lines, where the RLE format includes an X start position, a Y start position, a length of a first of the lines, and, for each subsequent line, indications of right and left edge steps relative to the immediately proceeding line.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Global Graphics Software LimitedInventors: Bruce Jones, Angus Duggan
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Patent number: 8749572Abstract: Systems and methods for performing brush behavior simulation in an image editing application may facilitate realistic paint simulation by the addition of a fill channel to a color space representation that includes a set of color channels and an alpha channel representing opacity of the paint. The fill channel value for each pixel of a brush model or canvas may represent the amount of paint stored at the pixel. The system may include logic to support paint compositing, mixing, and depletion operations that calculate a consequent color of a destination pixel resulting from the operations dependent on the fill channel values for the source and/or destination pixels. The resulting color channel, opacity channel, and fill channel values may be converted to a color space that does not include a fill channel or opacity channel for display. A source pixel may be a pixel of an atomic element of a texture.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Stephen J. DiVerdi, Aravind Krishnaswamy
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Patent number: 8749574Abstract: A method and apparatus for color matching during compositing. In one embodiment of the invention, a set of one or more un-color matched pixels are stored and associated with a first color profile. A fragment program is generated based on the first color profile and a second color profile associated with a display. During compositing of the set of un-color matched pixels, the fragment program is applied to the set of un-color matched pixels to match colors of those pixels with the display. The color matched pixels are written to the display. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Assana Fard
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Patent number: 8743137Abstract: Disclosed is a method to define automatically, in a pre-selected color space, at least one user-provided sample color. The method includes defining at least one target color within the color space to yield a standard color data set and providing a physical color swatch corresponding to the defined target color. The user then provides a digitized image comprising the user-provided sample color juxtaposed with the physical color swatch, to yield a sample color data set. The sample color data set is then compared to the standard color data set by means of a program stored on a programmable computer to determine a set of coordinates within the color space that defines the user-provided sample color.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Edgenet, Inc.Inventors: Sean Peters, Ron Rudolph
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Patent number: 8743139Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for automatically selecting a portion of an image that includes several pixels, each of which has a set of pixel values. The method identifies a background color of the image. For each region of a set of regions of a color space that correspond to the background color, the method determines whether a threshold number of pixels in the image have pixel values that are in the region. The method identifies the pixels of the image in the regions that correspond to the background color and have a threshold number of pixels in the image. The method generates a portion of the color space to define a selection of the image using the pixel values of the identified pixels.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel Pettigrew, Mitchell Scott Middler