Plural Look Up Tables Patents (Class 345/602)
  • Patent number: 11922899
    Abstract: A method for identifying a dynamic resolution for an application (150) of an electronic device (100) is provided. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, a base resolution for a window of the application (150), wherein the window includes a plurality of views; identifying, by the electronic device, a plurality of resolutions respectively corresponding to the plurality of views based on the base resolution and at least one characteristic of each of the plurality of views; applying, by the electronic device, the plurality of resolutions to the plurality of views, respectively; and displaying, by the electronic device, the plurality of views in the plurality of resolutions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sulabh Rastogi, Hemanth Chenna, Dileep Pudi, Pioush Kumar, Pankaj Chanchlani, Saurabh Pareek
  • Patent number: 11645355
    Abstract: A system for evaluating a piecewise linear function includes a first look-up table with N entries, and a second look-up table with M entries, with M being less than N. Each of the N entries contains parameters that define a corresponding linear segment of the piecewise linear function. The system further includes a controller configured to store a subset of the N entries from the first look-up table in the second look-up table. The system further includes a classifier for receiving an input value and classifying the input value in one of a plurality of segments of a number line. A total number of the segments is equal to M, and the segments are non-overlapping and contiguous. The system further includes a multiplexor for selecting one of the M entries of the second look-up table based on the classification of the input value into one of the plurality of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Recogni Inc.
    Inventors: Gilles J. C. A. Backhus, Gary S. Goldman
  • Patent number: 11468833
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel and a display driver integrated circuit configured to drive the display panel. The display driver integrated circuit is configured to determine a luminance value of the display panel if a request for a change from a current driving frequency of the display panel to a target driving frequency is received, and determine at least one intermediate driving frequency between the current driving frequency and the target driving frequency depending on the luminance value of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Lee, Seungryeol Kim, Seungjin Kim, Junghyun Kim, Byungduk Yang, Gwanghui Lee, Seoyoung Lee, Juseok Lee, Woojun Jung
  • Patent number: 11321802
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for supporting large lookup tables on an image processor. One of the methods includes receiving an input kernel program for an image processor having a two-dimensional array of execution lanes, a shift-register array, and a plurality of memory banks. If the kernel program has an instruction that reads a lookup table value for a lookup table partitioned across the plurality of memory banks, the instruction in the kernel program are replaced with a sequence of instructions that, when executed by an execution lane, causes the execution lane to read a first value from a local memory bank and a second value from the local memory bank on behalf of another execution lane belonging to a different group of execution lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Albert Meixner, Dustin Michael DeWeese
  • Patent number: 11252299
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to pixel conversion of images for display. A circuit converts input pixel values of an image using a color conversion function. The circuit is operable in different modes where each mode uses a different color conversion function. A lookup table memory circuit stores a mapping of color converted values and input pixel values according to the mode of operation where the mapping represents the color conversion function associated with the mode. The circuit produces a color converted value from the lookup table as a color converted version of a first input pixel value responsive to the first input pixel value being within a first range. The circuit may also produce a color converted version of a second input pixel value by interpolating a subset of the color converted values received from the lookup table responsive to the second input pixel being within a second input range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chihsin Wu, David R. Pope
  • Patent number: 10748503
    Abstract: A colour processor for mapping an image from source to destination colour gamuts includes an input for receiving a source image having a plurality of source colour points expressed according to the source gamut; a colour characterizer configured to, for each source colour point in the source image, determine a position of intersection of a curve with the boundary of the destination gamut; and a gamut mapper configured to, for each source colour point in the source image: if the source colour point lies inside the destination gamut, apply a first translation factor to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a first range of values; or if the source colour point lies outside the destination gamut, apply a second translation factor, different than the first translation factor, to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a second range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Paolo Fazzini
  • Patent number: 10747056
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display, a low blue light display control system and a display method for low blue light. The display method for a low blue light of a liquid crystal display comprising the steps of: performing division of a backlight source to obtain a plurality of backlight locations, wherein the plurality of backlight locations comprises a first emission peak and a second emission peak, and the second emission peak is larger than the second emission peak; calculating blue light ratios corresponding to display images of each backlight location of the plurality of backlight locations, respectively, and obtaining the blue light ratio of each backlight location; and driving a first light emission peak and/or a second light emission peak in the backlight location according to the blue light ratio of each backlight location for not shifting the white point coordinate and decreasing the display color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 10650718
    Abstract: The sub-pixel rendering method includes: obtaining a digital image, in which the digital image includes multiple pixels, each of the pixels includes multiple grey levels, and the number of the grey levels in the digital image is greater than the number of the sub-pixel structures; performing a gamma transformation on each of the grey levels to obtain multiple sub-pixel luminances; performing a sub-pixel rendering algorithm on the sub-pixel luminances to obtain multiple rendered sub-pixel luminances; and transforming the rendered sub-pixel luminances into multiple rendered grey levels, and driving the display panel according to the rendered grey levels, in which the number of the rendered grey levels is equal to the number of the sub-pixel structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chi-Feng Chuang
  • Patent number: 10147363
    Abstract: A timing controller includes: a temperature sensor to sense an ambient-3.6 temperature; a memory to store a liquid crystal response time corresponding to the temperature, and a gamma signal corresponding to the ambient temperature; a field number determinator to identify the liquid crystal response time corresponding to the ambient temperature from the memory, and to determine a number of fields corresponding to the liquid crystal response time; and a gamma converter to identify the gamma signal corresponding to the ambient temperature and the number of fields from the memory, and to convert an image signal into an image data signal corresponding to the gamma signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsoo Kim, Geunjeong Park, Yunki Baek, Donggyu Lee, Jakyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 10073680
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a more generally applicable programming environment for visual programming languages than conventional programming environments and to reduce data size of programs. With programming language data (a text VPL), which is a text based programming language data combining functions and connection characters composed of character data and defines relationships between the functions based on positional relations of the functions with reference to the connection characters in a display space of a text editor, the functions and the connection characters in character strings of the programming language data are distinguished and relationships between the functions are interpreted based on the positional relations in the display space. Interpretation of the text VPL enables a computer device to perform processing according to the text VPL, consequently realizing a generally applicable programming environment and reducing program data size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayuri Hoshikawa, Fumikazu Fujiwara, Ryosuke Aoki, Congqin Chen, Hidetomo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10062135
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing operation of graphics processing units in a computer system. A processing thread in the computer system controls processing of a set of sinogram data by a graphics processing unit to form a set of graphics data. An output thread in the computer system controls writing of the set of graphics data to a storage system. The graphics processing unit is available to perform processing of another set of sonogram data while the set of graphics data is written to the storage system such that the increased availability of a plurality of graphics processing units is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Steven Jimenez, Jr., Laurel Jeffers Orr
  • Patent number: 10003719
    Abstract: A method of color halftone processing is disclosed. A plurality of color mappings each provide a mapping from a color value in a color space to a set of Neugebauer Primary area coverage (NPac) values in an NPac space. An imaging metric is obtained for each NPac value in the set. An NPac value in the set is selected based on the imaging metric. The selected NPac value is used as an output NPac value in a combined color mapping for the color value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Morovic, Jan Morovic, Juan Manuel Garcia Reyero Vinas, Marti Rius Rossell
  • Patent number: 9728154
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each for displaying an image corresponding to a data signal; and a timing controller configured to receive an image signals and to convert the image signal into the data signal to be supplied to the display panel, wherein the timing controller is further configured to convert the image signal into an intermediate data signal and to generate the data signal, which corresponds to a k-th pixel, on a basis of intermediate data signals corresponding to a (k?1)-th pixel, the k-th pixel and a (k+1)-th pixel of the plurality of pixels, wherein the data signal corresponding to a first pixel of the plurality of pixels includes first and second color signals and the data signal corresponding to a second pixel of the plurality of pixels includes third and fourth color signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heendol Kim, Jai-Hyun Koh, Jinpil Kim, Seokyun Son, Ik Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 9495928
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes: a clock signal generating unit, for generating clock signals, where transitions from first level to second level, in each clock signal, trigger a scan driving circuit to generate scanning signals, the transitions from first level to second level are defined as effective signal edges of the clock signals, and an interval between adjacent effective signal edges is defined as a clock time interval; and a control unit, for controlling clock time intervals of each clock signal to be non-identical, the clock time intervals including a first clock time interval and second clock time interval, the second clock time being longer than the first clock time, and the control unit is configured to control the clock time interval to be the second clock time interval at least once during displaying one frame of image by a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: FOCALTECH SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Xinxi Jiang, Lianghua Mo, Peng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9395894
    Abstract: A computer system and computer-implemented method colorizes a UI component image on the browser side. A data provider in the system encodes the UI component image into a Base64 character sequence which includes a header part and an image data part; generates Base64 header parts for specified colored versions of the UI component image; and transfers the encoded UI component image and the Base64 header parts for the specified colored versions of the UI component image to a client icon composer. The header part has a fixed amount of characters and the image data part has a variable amount of characters. The client icon composer replaces the header parts of the encoded UI component image with the Base64 header parts for the specified colored versions of the UI component image; and transfers the specified colored versions of the UI component image to a web page/application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Software AG
    Inventor: Vittorio De Angelis
  • Patent number: 9381289
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for peritoneal dialysis with a means for the regular discharge and reuptake of dialysate, wherein the means includes an agent by which the color and turbidity of the dialysate can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Hedmann, Stephan Klatte
  • Patent number: 9286857
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for transforming color thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel, a driver circuit for driving the red sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel and the white sub-pixel, and a data processing unit. The data processing unit receives a red original data, a blue original data and a green original data to produce a red reference data, a green reference data and a white reference data to the driver circuit as a red data, a green data and a white data, and regulate a produced blue reference data thereof according to a blue component brightness corresponding to the white reference data to provide the a blue data to the driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hui-Feng Lin, Shang-Yu Su
  • Patent number: 9030485
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, National University of Sciences & Technology
    Inventors: Yong Ju Cho, Yong Ju Lee, Seung Kwon Beack, Ji Hun Cha, Seong Yong Lim, Myung Seok Ki, Joo Myoung Seok, Jin Woong Kim, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Rehan Hafiz, Haris Anis, Mutahir Latif, Ashar Rasul, Arshad Ali
  • Patent number: 9025084
    Abstract: In a video display apparatus A, a controller 9, while displaying video processed by a video processor 4 on a video display 3, displays LUTs 45R, 45G, and 45B which are tables of correction data for correcting luminance levels of red, green, and blue respectively. The controller 9 re-calculates and rewrites the correction data based on one adjustment point or two or more adjustment points P1 and P2 adjusted by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Nakamura, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9019193
    Abstract: A method of compensating image data, the method includes generating a compensation data of an image data in accordance with a temperature value by using a compensation data of a previous frame and a compensation data generated through a look-up table which is mapped with corresponding to a compensation data of a previous frame and a set temperature value which is smaller than and closest to the temperature value or which is greater than and closest to the temperature value among set temperature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Im Park, Jun-Pyo Lee, Ik-Huyn Ahn, Ho-Seok Son, Kang-Min Kim, Jung-Won Kim, Seon-Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 9019294
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8963947
    Abstract: Approximation errors commonly occur when color transformation values stored in color look-up tables are interpolated to produce color display drive signals, since the stored transformation values typically correspond to non-linear functions. Such errors can be reduced by applying a pre-indexing function to the transformation values before they are stored in the look-up table, and by applying the same function to values extracted from the table during look-up operations. Alternatively, such errors can be reduced by providing one or more additional look-up tables to achieve higher order (i.e. more accurate) interpolation results that are achievable by interpolation of values stored in a single look-up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Chi Wan, Terence Lau
  • Patent number: 8928253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating light with a desired light color by using at least one light-emitting diode emitting red r-LED, at least one light-emitting diode emitting green g-LED, at least one light-emitting diode emitting blue b-LED and at least one light-emitting diode emitting white w-LED. In order to improve the CRI value, according to the invention it is proposed that weighting values ascertained according to the RGB algorithm and further weighting values ascertained according to the RGBW algorithm be combined together by using a correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Swen Bergeler, Yvonne Bodschwinna-Kangarakis, Frank Schmid
  • Patent number: 8928684
    Abstract: An overdrive device includes a training unit, an analysis unit and a Contrast adjustment unit. The training unit establishes a luminance difference look-up table (LUT) having an R2 number of luminance differences. Each of the R2 number of luminance differences represents a luminance difference between a measured display luminance value and a target luminance value of a display device when each of first and second viewing angle images correspond to any value of a grayscale range R. With respect to first and second viewing angle input image data, for pixel data therein corresponding to a same pixel position, the analysis unit looks up the luminance difference LUT to obtain a looked-up luminance difference, and accordingly calculates a luminance difference index. The contrast adjustment unit partially adjusts the grayscale of the second viewing angle image according to the luminance value index to obtain headroom for an overdrive operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Guang-Zhi Liu, Jian-De Jiang
  • Patent number: 8922581
    Abstract: A data processing device includes a receiving module, a rendering module and a color compensation module. The rendering module receives image data from the receiving module and renders the image data into first, second, third and fourth sub-pixel data based on a layout of a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel and the color compensation module compensates for a color of the first, second and third sub-pixel data. The color compensation module converts the first, second and third sub-pixel data into first, second and third intermediate data, respectively, adds first, second and third delta values, which are determined based on the fourth sub-pixel data, to the first, second and third intermediate data, and thereby generates first, second and third compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Jae Kim, Junghwan Cho, Byoungjun Lee, Nam-Hee Goo, Myoung-Chul Kim, Bo-Ram Kim
  • Patent number: 8896508
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a temperature detecting unit that detects temperature, wherein the electro-optical device sets a number of sub-frames of plural sub-frames included in one frame according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit and sets a luminance level of pixels in each of the plural sub-frames to at least a first level or a second level to perform gradation display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140333661
    Abstract: Image data systems and methods combine a plurality of images into a single multiple-palette image data file, or generate a selected image from the multiple-palette image data file. An exemplary embodiment receives first pixel information for a first pixel of a first image, the first pixel having a first color; receives second pixel information for a like-located second pixel of a second image, the second pixel having a second color; and specifies a color palette location value that identifies a first color palette array element in a first color palette of the first image and identifies a second like-located color palette array element in a second color palette of the second image. First color information stored in the first color palette array element defines the first pixel color. Second color information stored in the second image data color palette array element defines the second pixel color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Joshua Engelbert, Bill Ivanich
  • Patent number: 8867065
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for operating a page parallel RIP printing system including a plurality of image marking engines (IMEs). According to an exemplary method, a print job is split into a plurality of job chunks, each job chunk grouped by its destination IME; and the job chunks are processed into a printer ready format by a plurality of RIP nodes associated with the job chunk group's respective destination IME.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: R. Victor Klassen
  • Publication number: 20140306984
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes: a first lookup table that stores first color compensation data optimized to display a first color; a second lookup table that stores second color compensation data optimized to display a second color different from the first color; and a color compensating unit that refers to the first lookup table and the second lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Suk Choi, Hoi Sik Moon, Woo-Young Lee, Kang-Hyun KIM, Woo-Jin Jung, Jae-Seob Chung
  • Patent number: 8848004
    Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 8842104
    Abstract: A bistable display and a method of driving a panel thereof are provided. The present invention would set the driving information lookup table (DLUT) and the corresponding reference information relating to each frame of the bistable display in advance, and look up the previous frame driving data and/or the current frame driving data of the panel according to the set reference information and thus obtaining information for driving each pixel of the panel. Accordingly, not only the memory space of the built-in DLUTs can be substantially reduced and thus saving the usage cost of memories, but also the time for download DLUTs from the external memory unit by the timing controller (T-con) can be reduced so as to promote the operation performance of the whole bistable display and thus further increasing the speed of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: De-Zhang Peng, Huan-Hsin Li
  • Publication number: 20140267370
    Abstract: A method is provided for compensating for brightness change in a display. The method includes storing a plurality of look-up tables (LUTs), where each table has a plurality of pixel levels at a variable refresh rate (VRR) and a plurality of brightness signals that provide compensation for the brightness change when refresh rate is changed during a panel self-refresh (PSR). The method also includes receiving an input signal from a graphics processing unit (GPU) and determining the VRR of the input signal from the GPU. The method further includes obtaining the LUT at the determined VRR of the input signal and adjusting the input signal to produce an output signal that compensates for the brightness change for each pixel or sub-pixel in a timing controller based upon the LUT at the determined VRR. The method further includes transmitting the output signal to the display. A system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Albrecht, Christopher Philip Alan Tann, Nocholas G. Roland
  • Publication number: 20140253583
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method that relates to mapping from one color space on a 3D cube to another, and an addressing method used to represent the data. The system organizes the data to reduce memory storage requirements, by re-using redundant information from different cube corners in a lattice structure without re-storing the same data. The lattice structure may repeat for every cube of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Vansickle, Daniel Stan
  • Patent number: 8817040
    Abstract: A magnified image is improved by integrating the wavelength specific component into that image. A magnified images obtained, and at least one wavelength specific component images also obtained. The different images are converted in color space, and different channels, indicative of the different parts of the image shows, are also obtained. For example, the image may be converted to an L*a*b* color space, and the luminance channel of the wavelength specific component may be used to enhance or replace the luminance channel of the magnified image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventor: Roscoe Atkinson
  • Patent number: 8791953
    Abstract: A method of adjusting value includes calculating a value of saturation from an input image signal, and adjusting a value of value of the input image signal according to a calculated saturation value. In the method, the value of value of the input image signal is adjusted by using a value adjustment algorithm for determining a value adjustment rate that decreases the value according to the saturation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-dal Kwon, Dong-yul Lee, See-wook Park, Yoon-kyung Choi, Hwa-hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 8791954
    Abstract: Image data systems and methods combine a plurality of images into a single multiple-palette image data file, or generate a selected image from the multiple-palette image data file. An exemplary embodiment receives first pixel information for a first pixel of a first image, the first pixel having a first color; receives second pixel information for a like-located second pixel of a second image, the second pixel having a second color; and specifies a color palette location value that identifies a first color palette array element in a first color palette of the first image and identifies a second like-located color palette array element in a second color palette of the second image. First color information stored in the first color palette array element defines the first pixel color. Second color information stored in the second image data color palette array element defines the second pixel color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Joshua Engelbert, Bill Ivanich
  • Patent number: 8743142
    Abstract: A present invention pixel processing system and method permit complicated three dimensional images to be rendered with shallow graphics pipelines including reduced gate counts and facilitates power conservation by utilizing a single unified data fetch stage (e.g., unified data fetch module) that retrieves a variety of different pixel surface attribute values (e.g., depth, color, and/or texture values) in a single stage. Different types of pixel surface attribute data (e.g., depth, color, texture) associated with multiple graphics processing functions (e.g., color blending, texture mapping, etc.) are retrieved in the single unified data fetch graphics pipeline stage. The pixel surface attribute values may be placed in corresponding variable fields of a pixel packet row. The pixel packet rows including the pixel surface attribute values are forwarded to downstream graphics pipeline stages (e.g., an arithmetic logic pipestage).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Edward A. Hutchins, Brian K. Angell
  • Patent number: 8743141
    Abstract: Color lookup table smoothing employs propagation of a portion of an adjustment of a modified node to an unmodified node of a color lookup table (CLUT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Morovic, Jan Morovic, Manuel Ángel Albarrán Moyo
  • Patent number: 8717379
    Abstract: A color conversion table creating device for creating a color conversion table for converting first color data defined in a first color space to second color data defined in a second color space different from the first color space, includes a first data acquiring unit, a reference value determining unit, a lightness judging unit, a third data determining unit, and a creating unit. The first data acquiring unit is configured to acquire a plurality of sets of first data defined in the first color space. The first data sets are determined by measuring test patches each corresponding to a set of second data defined in the second color space. The first data sets include a set of black color data corresponding to data representing black in the second color space. Each first data set has a lightness value. The reference value determining unit is configured to determine a reference value based on a lightness value of the black color data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Kuno
  • Patent number: 8717356
    Abstract: A disclosed method for displaying a shape of an object including a trimmed surface generated based on a base surface includes: dividing the base surface into plural triangles; generating a loop polygon for loops including an outer loop for defining an outer shape of the trimmed surface and an inner loop provided, in the outer loop, depending on the shape of the object; identifying plural sight-line single-valued areas, each of which satisfies a condition that mapping onto a projection surface is bijection, includes plural triangles, and is an area on the base surface, based on a positional relationship between a viewpoint and the base surface; generating, for each of the plural sight-line single-valued areas, mask data for each pixel from the sight-line single-valued area and the loop polygon; generating image data on the projection surface for each of the triangles; and perform drawing using the mask data and image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Digital Process Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromi Mori
  • Patent number: 8704848
    Abstract: A transform model is established by the calibration system for color transformation between a first color space and a second color space. Three first target curves are defined and transformed by the transform model so as to establish three look-up tables. The display is calibrated according to the three look-up tables such that the color temperature of the display may be substantially constant for every gray-level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Wen Liu, Hung-Wei Chih
  • Patent number: 8687010
    Abstract: Arbitrary size texture palettes. A texture palette storage embodied in a computer readable medium is provided. The texture palette storage is partitioned into texture palette tables of arbitrary size. Texel data is stored for each of the texture palette tables in the texture palette storage. Another aspect is a palette memory that receives a texture index value of y-bits. The palette memory comprises subtables of different length. Each sub-table has a range with a start address and a length. The start address is a multiple of m. Each range is of a length addressable by y-bits. The palette memory also includes a sub-table index value of x-bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Jim Battle
  • Patent number: 8687014
    Abstract: A process and circuit for blending a foreground image (B) with a background image (A), said foreground and background images being arranged in pixels and having color representations (R, G, B). The foreground foreground image (A) has a transparency parameter (T(x,y)) in accordance with a so-called alpha plane representative of the transparency profile to apply to the foreground image. The process involves the steps of: -applying a dithering method on said alpha plane in order to convert said transparency parameter (T) into a one-bit transparency parameter (T?); -use said one-bit transparency parameter (T?) for controlling a multiplexing unit having two inputs respectively receiving the foreground image (A) and the background image (B). In one embodiment, the one-bit transparency parameter T? into the two extreme values of a range of continuous values, for instance coded on 8 bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: David Coupe, Gilles Spinelli
  • Patent number: 8643908
    Abstract: A color adjustment device includes: a conversion unit that converts color values of a second color space stored in a color conversion table, which defines a correspondence relation between color values of a first color space and color values of the second color space, into color values of a third color space independent from a device outputting an image; a storage unit that stores tables that define different input-output characteristics depending on color values of the third color space; and a change unit that selects at least one table from the tables according to a specified adjustment method, and executes a change process that changes color values of the second color space stored in the color conversion table by using the at least one table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daigo Hama, Noriko Sakai, Masaomi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8643664
    Abstract: A gamut converting device that applies gamut conversion to image data includes a signal converting unit that performs, when a negative value is included in an image signal value forming the image data, processing for converting the image signal value forming the image data to eliminate the negative value from the image signal value and a gamut converting unit that applies the gamut conversion to the image data, the image signal value of which is converted by the signal converting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Matsuoka, Norihiko Kawada
  • Patent number: 8605111
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for correcting color in a portable image projector in consideration of an effect of a background color when the portable image projector projects images. The method corrects the effect of the background color to be projected, using color constancy technique, and thereby represents high-quality image which can be projected on a white screen. The method includes the steps of determining if a background color exists on a projection screen using a portable camera, converting the size of a mask image in order to connect a spatial position of an original image and an image photographed by a camera, correcting brightness of the mask image in order to correct non-homogeneity of the brightness of the projected image due to the distribution of different brightness values of the background color, and correcting the background color in order to correct color distortion of the image projected in different colors on the background color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Kyungpook National University Industry-Aademic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jae-Won Moon, Sung-Dae Cho, Young-Min Jeong, Jong-Man Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Young-Ho Ha, Chul-Hee Lee, Chang-Hwan Son, In-Su Jang
  • Patent number: 8599455
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing color plane adjustment are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a set of inputs for receiving a first input value and a second input value in a color space. The apparatus also comprises a color plane adjustment component operative to adjust the first input value and the second input value by amounts that depend on a distance of the first input value and second input value, respectively, from a value of neutral gray in the color space. The apparatus further comprises a set of outputs for outputting the adjusted first and second values. A related method and computer program are disclosed. Other embodiments are disclosed, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Randall D. Briggs, Douglas G. Keithley
  • Patent number: 8587605
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device capable of realizing appropriate color expression without requiring a large increase in data amount of image data for displaying a composite screen. A television broadcast receiver (1) includes a synthesis processing section (40) and an OSD processing section (24) for creating an OSD plane C as a composite screen in index color expression by combining an OSD plane U and OSD plane L, which are display screens in the index color expression. By the processing section (40) and the OSD processing section (24), the OSD plane C for attaining a display effect in which the OSD plane U and OSD plane L are superimposed is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yoshitani, Yuji Kamon
  • Patent number: 8581925
    Abstract: A data correcting method is disclosed to implement an optimum picture quality according to surrounding conditions. The data correcting method includes: converting the input data into XYZ color space data; converting the XYZ color space data into JCh color space data by applying a reference illuminance parameter to a CIECAM02 forward algorithm; inversely converting the JCh color space data into the XYZ color space data by the illuminance by sequentially applying a plurality of illuminance parameters different from the reference illuminance, to a CIECAM02 backward algorithm; inversely converting the inversely converted XYZ color space data into an RGB color space to produce correction data of each illuminance; and making a look-up table by mapping the produced correction data of each illuminance to the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongyou Lee, Sunah Park, Hoyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 8570340
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for demoting color data associated with at least one entity, wherein the entity comprises at least one sub-entity. The at least one sub-entity may be marked as demotable, if the color data associated with the at least one sub-entity is demotable. The at least one entity may be marked as demotable, if all sub-entities enclosed in the at least one entity are demotable. The color data of at least one marked rasterizable entity may be demoted, wherein the at least one marked rasterizable entity may be selected from a set comprising of marked entities and marked sub-entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Kurt Nathan Nordback