Image With Abnormal Condition Patents (Class 345/618)
  • Patent number: 11810531
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling display of an image on a display panel of a display device, the method comprising determining a commanded brightness level for the display panel, generating an index look-up table (LUT) and a mura LUT based on the brightness level and a relationship between pixel output and pixel value for each pixel of the display panel for each of a plurality of brightness levels, the relationship determined during a calibration phase and stored in memory of the display device, determining an index value for each pixel of the display panel based on the index LUT, determining a corrected pixel value for each pixel based on the mura LUT and the index value, and sending the corrected pixel value to that pixel within the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Pixelworks Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenwen Yi, Haiyan Shi, Neil Woodall
  • Patent number: 11521562
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device including a display panel having a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of subpixels; a gate driving circuit for supplying scan signals to the plurality of gate lines; a data driving circuit for supplying data voltages to the plurality of data lines and including a sensing circuit of characteristic value to sense the characteristic value of the plurality of subpixels; and a timing controller for controlling the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, and determining a defective line by detecting a distorted section for the sensed characteristic value for each subpixel arranged in the second direction in respect to a plurality of blocks corresponding to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungJoong Kim, GaYong Park
  • Patent number: 11481175
    Abstract: An electronic device and a control method therefor are provided. The electronic device comprises: a communication unit; and a processor configured to receive, from at least one cabinet of a plurality of cabinets, position information on a defective pixel detected in each cabinet through the communication unit, identify a position, on an entire screen consisting of the plurality of cabinets, where the defective pixel is present on the basis of the position information of the defective pixel, identify a defective area on the entire screen on the basis of the identified position, and provide information on the identified defective area. Here, each of the plurality of cabinets includes a plurality of display modules, wherein each of the plurality of display modules includes a plurality of pixels each consisting of a plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghoon Oh, Duseong Kang, Youngkook Kim, Hyewon Lee
  • Patent number: 11461152
    Abstract: An information input method and a terminal, related to the field of electronic technologies, to improve information input efficiency of the terminal. When a user launches a first application on a terminal, the terminal displays a first interface of the first application, and in response to a first operation performed by a user on the first interface, the terminal automatically selects at least one piece of first remark information that matches an attribute of the first application, and prompts the user with the at least one piece of first remark information in the first interface. In this way, the user can choose the first remark information as the input content, and the user does not need to type any words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Zhenyu Liu
  • Patent number: 11445171
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display; a content receiver configured to receive image content; a communication interface configured to communicate with a service apparatus; a storage configured to store a setting value of factor related to an operation of the content receiver, the communication interface, and the display; and a controller configured to change the setting value of factor related to the operation of at least one of the content receiver, the communication interface, and the display, and to determine whether a risk of an operation error of at least one is caused due to the changed setting value. When it is determined that there is the at least one risk of the operation error due to the changed setting value, the controller is configured to transmit information about the factor and the operation error to a service apparatus through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Young Won
  • Patent number: 11393367
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a sensor, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a virtual flat screen based on an angle of the display identified through the sensor, correct a size of a content based on a distance between the virtual flat screen and the display, project the corrected content to a virtual space, map the content projected to the virtual space to the virtual flat screen, render the virtual flat screen that the content is mapped to, and display the rendered virtual flat screen on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myoungwoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11222564
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a control method, and a control device thereof. The display panel includes a bending area. The bending area includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The control method includes: obtaining an attenuation parameter of a sub-pixel of at least one color in the bending area, wherein the attenuation parameter is a pre-attenuation amount of brightness attenuation of the sub-pixel; obtaining a pre-register value of the sub-pixel of the at least one color corresponding to grayscale data of a pixel to which the sub-pixel of the at least one color belongs; and adjusting light emission brightness of the sub-pixel of the at least one color based on the pre-register value and the attenuation parameter of the sub-pixel of the at least one color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Yong Yu, Chang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11145246
    Abstract: Aspects described herein include a method and associated processing system for a display having a plurality of pixels. The method comprises driving, using display circuitry, a plurality of pixels of a display device to display one or more test patterns. The display device is integrated into a manufactured input device. The method further comprises receiving field-set mura compensation data that is based on one or more images of the plurality of pixels. The one or more images are acquired responsive to displaying the one or more test patterns. The method further comprises writing the field-set mura compensation data to a memory of the input device. The field-set mura compensation data replaces or is stored along with factory-set mura compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Xi Chu, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11114017
    Abstract: A Mura correction driver which corrects Mura detected in a detection image obtained by photographing a display panel. The Mura correction driver uses Mura correction data including a position value of a Mura block for a display panel and coefficient values for the Mura block, and corrects display data corresponding to the position value of the Mura block, by using a Mura correction equation to which the coefficient values of the Mura block are applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Taek Kim, Jun Young Park, Doo Hwa Jang, Seung Wan Yu, Do Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11017715
    Abstract: A Mura compensation method and device for a curved screen are disclosed. The method includes: dividing each of curved portions into blocks; acquiring measured luminance values of each of the illuminated sub-pixels in a non-curved portion and measured luminance values of each of the illuminated blocks in the curved portions according to grayscale values, wherein each of measured luminance values has a corresponding relationship with one of the grayscale values; and using the measured luminance values and the grayscale values in a gamma relational expression, solving for coefficients and a gamma value in the gamma relational expression by a fitting process, finding a theoretical luminance value corresponding to each of the grayscale values in a gamma curve according to the gamma value, and using the theoretical luminance value, the coefficients, and the gamma value in the gamma relational expression to solve for a compensation grayscale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Dispiay Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Yaojen Chang
  • Patent number: 10984787
    Abstract: A multimedia apparatus includes a wireless transmission device, an audio receiving device, a processing device and a projection device. The audio receiving device is for receiving a first voice data. The processing device is coupled with the audio receiving device and the wireless transmission device. The processing device is for outputting the first voice data via the wireless transmission device. The projection device is coupled with the processing device. When the processing device receives a first image data corresponding to the first voice data via the wireless transmission device, the processing device operates the projection device to project a first projection picture according to the first image data. A multimedia system including the multimedia apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Chun Chen, Tzu-Fang Huang, Chung-Kuan Wang, Chia-Ching Chen, Kuang-Hsun Hsieh, Chih-Hsien Tsung, Hsiang-Lin Yang, Tao-Hua Cheng, Cheng-Yu Kao, Nien-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 10890615
    Abstract: A sensor system for providing a main signal and an error signal, comprising: a sensor unit providing a sensor signal; a first signal processor downstream of the sensor unit, adapted for receiving a second signal equal to or derived from a sensor signal, and for performing a first operations on the second signal so as to provide a first processed signal; a second signal processor for receiving the first processed signal and for performing second operations inverse of the first operations, so as to provide a second processed signal; and an evaluation unit for receiving the second signal and the second processed signal, and for evaluating whether the second signal matches the second processed signal within a predefined tolerance margin, and for providing the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Melexis Technologies NV
    Inventors: Vincenzo Sacco, Mathieu Poezart
  • Patent number: 10839731
    Abstract: A Mura correction system which performs correction of a Mura pixel in a detection image obtained by photographing a display panel. The Mura correction system may detect an individual Mura pixel and realize correction on the detected one Mura pixel, and may realize block-based correction on Mura pixels of some region of a Mura block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Taek Kim, Jun Young Park, Doo Hwa Jang, Seung Wan Yu, Do Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 10710536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a function safety system for a vehicle malfunction display is disclosed. The function safety system comprises: an automotive system, a sensor, a display system, a control unit, and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The sensor is coupled to the automotive system, and utilized for detecting whether the automotive system has at least a malfunction. The control unit is coupled to the sensor and directly connected to the display system, and utilized for indicating the display system when the sensor detecting the automotive system has the at least a malfunction. The GPU is coupled to the display system, and utilized for performing information transmission for the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Cheng-Chih Hsu
  • Patent number: 10645127
    Abstract: The invention is generally directed to a system and method providing a software application that can run on portable or wearable computing devices that allows for the creation and display of a virtual briefing book, for example, providing a list of attendees for a conference or other event, their photographs, and titles or other background information. According to one embodiment, the software application displays a list of briefing book files corresponding to different conferences or events that an executive or other user may attend. The user can select a briefing book and it will display pictures and background on the attendees expected for the conference. The user can access photographs, names, and other information about the attendees on-site and in a fairly discreet manner that greatly improves over conventional hard copy briefing books.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Joel Potts, Omar Siddiqi
  • Patent number: 10606473
    Abstract: A display method of the present invention includes a stain detecting step for detecting a stain on an input display part, and a stained-point displaying step for displaying a predetermined indication at a first point of the input display part corresponding to the position of the detected stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 10521240
    Abstract: A digital device and a method of processing screensaver the same are disclosed in this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungho Lee, Changwook Im, Joonsang Lee, Chanjin Park, David Berbessou, Stephen Winston
  • Patent number: 10388258
    Abstract: Remapping software elements to increase the usability of a device with a damaged screen including receiving a request to transition the device with the damaged screen into damaged screen mode; dividing, by a remapping module, the damaged screen into a plurality of sectors; determining, by the remapping module, a usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; remapping, by the remapping module, elements of device software to sectors based on the usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; and presenting the remapped elements of the device software to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Prasanna Jayaraman
  • Patent number: 10388259
    Abstract: Remapping software elements to increase the usability of a device with a damaged screen including receiving a request to transition the device with the damaged screen into damaged screen mode; dividing, by a remapping module, the damaged screen into a plurality of sectors; determining, by the remapping module, a usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; remapping, by the remapping module, elements of device software to sectors based on the usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; and presenting the remapped elements of the device software to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Prasanna Jayaraman
  • Patent number: 10289428
    Abstract: A digital device and a method of processing screensaver thereof are disclosed in this disclosure. According to the present invention, a digital device for processing a screensaver includes a manager configured to manage a display window of the digital device and to generate and transmit first status data to a controller, a processor configured to collect application data including format data and reference data, and the controller configured to control to launch one or more applications, to transmit a signal requesting application data, to receive the requested application data, to transmit a control command to a screensaver application based on the received application data, and to execute the screensaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELETRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changwook Im, Chanjin Park, Joonsang Lee, Stephen Winston, David Berbessou
  • Patent number: 10237429
    Abstract: A system and method for gamification of multifunction peripherals includes an intelligent controller having a processor and memory. A touchscreen user interface configured to receive a document processing instruction from an associated user. Electronic images of user fortunes are stored in memory. The processor monitors background tasks on the controller after receipt of a document processing instruction from the user and generates a user interactive graphical image of a tangible object on the touch screen. When a user touches the image on the touch screen, it then displays a user fortune image of a fortune.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Marianne Kodimer
  • Patent number: 10080155
    Abstract: A controller and one or more access points that dynamically modify data collection in a system that includes a WLAN is described. In particular, during operation the access point may receive data for a type of data from an electronic device in the WLAN. Then, access point may aggregate the data based on an aggregation interval, where the aggregation interval is predefined for a group of types of data that includes the type of data. Moreover, the access point may transmit the aggregated data to the controller based on a reporting interval, where the reporting interval is predefined for the group of types of data. Next, the access point may receive an instruction from the controller to modify the aggregation interval and/or the reporting interval for the group of types of data. Furthermore, the access point may modify the aggregation interval and/or the reporting interval based on the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Arris Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Yi-Nan Lee, Kai-Hsiung Cheng, Chien Cheng Ming, Sudip Ghosal, Ching-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 10035608
    Abstract: A method and device for aiding piloting of an aircraft, during at least one flight phase including piloting steps. The device includes a unit for real-time acquisition of flight parameters of the aircraft, a calculation unit for calculating in real time with the parameters, for each of the piloting steps, a distance between current position of the aircraft and a position along a flight trajectory followed by the aircraft, at which the aircraft will reach the corresponding piloting step. At least one display unit is provided for displaying, in real time, characteristic signs each illustrating one of the piloting steps, the characteristic signs being integrated into the environment viewed with the aid of the screen and being positioned so as to make it possible to locate a place of the environment along the flight trajectory followed by the aircraft, at which the aircraft will reach the piloting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Pierre Scacchi, Matthieu Mayolle
  • Patent number: 10038775
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus for detecting an intention to input data on a screen relating to a locked state of the mobile apparatus is provided herein. Upon detecting the intention to input data on the screen related to the locked state, the mobile apparatus enters into an inking mode that enables input of data directly on the screen relating to the locked state. As such, while the mobile apparatus remains in the locked state, the input data is captured on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Apaar Tuli
  • Patent number: 10000297
    Abstract: Aircraft display systems for deployment onboard rotorcraft or other aircraft are provided, as are methods carried-out by an aircraft display system. In an embodiment, the aircraft display system includes a controller operably coupled to at least one cockpit display device. The controller is configured to generate a Primary Flight Display (PFD) and Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI) graphics on the cockpit display device. The controller selectively switches PFD operation between a heading-centered display mode and at least a first non-heading-centered display mode. The HSI graphics are produced to include one or more movable HSI symbols identifying a current aircraft heading when the PFD operates in the first non-heading-centered display mode. In certain embodiments, the controller may also selectively generate visual alerts on the PFD by altering the appearance of the HSI graphics when an angle between the current track and the current heading of the aircraft exceeds an angular threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gang He, Jason F. Harvey
  • Patent number: 9812044
    Abstract: A LED sign which can be programmed to display a desired message can be made utilizing a sign kit comprising (1) one or more faces, wherein each face is comprised of a plurality light emitting diodes; (2) a receiver having erasable, programmable read-only memory and a USB printer port plug; (3) a power supply; and (4) a USB flash drive which is adapted to connecting to the receiver through the USB printer port plug; wherein the USB flash drive is programmed to reset the erasable, programmable read-only memory of the receiver by erasing any preexisting data which may reside in the read-only memory of the receiver and to program the erasable, programmable read-only memory with auto executing script to set the desired message to be displayed. The LED sign can be mounted on a trailer for display as the sign is moving or for display in a stationary location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Amid A. Yousef
  • Patent number: 9798413
    Abstract: Information is presented on a touchscreen display. An available viewing surface area of the touchscreen is separated into a first zone and at least a second zone. The first zone is operable for presenting a critical portion of the information. The second zone is operable for receiving haptic user inputs. Usage of the first zone and the second zone are coordinated. The presentation of the critical information in the first separated zone, and/or a prompt related to at least one of the one or more haptic user inputs may be controlled based on the coordinated usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent D. Larson
  • Patent number: 9318070
    Abstract: A terminal includes a sensor to sense bending of a flexible display and a controller to control display of information on the display. The controller divides a first screen on the display into at least first and second regions when bending of the display is detected and displays at least a portion of a second screen in a space located between the first and second regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Park, Sujin Kim, Jumin Chi, Jaeho Choi, Sunghye Yoon
  • Patent number: 9204076
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a clock generation unit that generates a plurality of phase signals having phases different from one another, a signal transmission unit provided to correspond to the plurality of phase signals and having a plurality of signal transmission circuits, and a latch unit having a plurality of latch circuits that latches the phase signals transmitted by the signal transmission unit at a timing of an end of a comparison process performed by a comparison unit. A configuration of the signal transmission circuit that transmits a first phase signal is substantially the same as a configuration of the signal transmission circuit that transmits a second phase signal different from the first phase signal. A configuration of the latch circuit that latches the first phase signal is substantially the same as a configuration of the latch circuit that latches the second phase signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
  • Publication number: 20150145885
    Abstract: Methods and systems for obtaining a reconstruction of an object, the reconstruction of the object comprising an inverse problems. The method includes expressing the reconstruction of the object as a optimization problem with total variation regularization, and obtaining the reconstruction of the object from convergence of the iterations, an object being an input/representation of input to a system, the system providing output data resulting from the input, the object being reconstructed from the output data obtained from interaction of the object with the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Andrzej Krol, Yuesheng Xu, Si Li, Lixin Shen
  • Patent number: 9036860
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for editing propagation of video and image content based on local feature structure preservation, comprising: mapping all pixels in the input original image and/or video key frames to a selected feature space; finding K nearest neighbor pixels for each pixel according to feature vectors' Euclidean distance in the selected feature space; using Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) dimension reduction to construct the locally linear relationship between each pixel and its K nearest neighbor pixels in the selected feature space; According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately perform such image or video processing as automatic color transformation, interactive color editing, gray image colorization, video cloning and image matting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xiaowu Chen, Dongqing Zou, Qinping Zhao, Jianwei Li, Feng Ding
  • Publication number: 20150109326
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving image information for a current frame, determining an amount of change between the current frame and a previous based on the image information for the current frame and image information for a previous frame and determining an adjustment of a frame time based on the amount of change between the current frame and the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: JACKY ROMANO, TRAVIS T. SCHLUESSLER, GUY ZADICARIO, STAS GURTOVOY, LIRAN BACHAR
  • Patent number: 8988244
    Abstract: An article transfer system that allows the operator to easily notice that abnormality occurs in an abnormality detecting sensor for detecting abnormality and perform remedial work is provided. The article transfer system is adapted to display information indicating that the abnormality occurs on a display device as abnormality occurrence information, receive input of a result of determination by the operator on whether or not the abnormality indicated by the abnormality occurrence information occurs, and display information indicating that the detecting information received from the abnormality detecting sensor is incorrect on the display device when the operator inputs the result of determination that the abnormality indicated by the abnormality occurrence information does not occur with the abnormality detecting sensor detecting the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Yagawa
  • Patent number: 8963910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pixel information management apparatus that is capable of efficiently storing information on defective pixels of imaging pixels and information on evaluation pixels in the same format. Pixel information having a region that contains information indicating whether the pixel is a defective pixel of the imaging pixels or an evaluation pixel, a region that contains information that depends on whether the pixel is a defective pixel of the imaging pixels or an evaluation pixel, and a region that contains information for specifying a position of the pixel is stored, and a relative distance from another defective pixel of the imaging pixels or another evaluation pixel is stored as the information for specifying the pixel position, the relative distance being a distance that conforms to a predetermined pixel scan rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8937626
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a region having at least one pixel of an image includes a predetermined number of anomalous pixels, and a creation unit configured to create information indicating the determination result for the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Omi
  • Patent number: 8907967
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a working storage section in which computer graphics description data of a storage format in which a computer graphics material can be edited are developed so as to be used for production of an image; an updating controlling section adapted to control a writing operation into part of the working storage section in accordance with derivative information representative of information which describes control for the stored contents of the working storage section; and an image production section adapted to produce a computer graphics image based on the stored contents of the working storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sensaburo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8890887
    Abstract: Image viewing systems, such as clinical medical image viewing systems, can be equipped for image browsing. Such systems may benefit from synchronized image browsing. A method can include displaying a plurality of related images at a same time. The method can also include synchronizing the related images with respect to an operation performed on one of the images. Likewise, an apparatus can include a user interface configured to display a plurality of related images at a same time. The apparatus also includes a synchronizer configured to synchronize the related images with respect to an operation performed on one of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Ann Lethers, Kenny Li, Yasunori Ikeno
  • Patent number: 8890908
    Abstract: A calibration system may be provided for calibrating displays in electronic devices during manufacturing. The calibration system may include calibration computing equipment and a test chamber having a light sensor. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to operate the light sensor and the display to gather display intensity performance data for obtaining a display gamma model. The display intensity performance data may be gathered using a range of display control settings that will be used in performing color calibration operations for the display. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to operate the light sensor and the display to gather display color performance data for determining a display white point calibration. Display white point calibration data may be provided to the electronic device and stored in volatile or non-volatile memory in the device or may be permanently stored in circuitry associated with the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaying Wu, Gabriel Marcu, Wei Chen, Hopil Bae, Cheng Chen, Ye Yin, Anuj Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20140292762
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a restrictive condition storage unit in which at least one restrictive condition, which is to be applied to an image to be output and acquired from a subject, is stored, an accepting unit that accepts an image that is obtained by shooting the subject and has at least one field, an image changing unit that applies the at least one restrictive condition to the at least one field of the image accepted by the accepting unit, changes the at least one field so that it satisfies the at least one restrictive condition, and acquires at least one new field, and an image output unit that outputs the at least one field acquired by the image changing unit, enabling an image having an overall balance to be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: I-CUBED RESEARCH CENTER INC.
    Inventor: Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8756535
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to execute a plurality of screen saver program instances to display a plurality of separately visible screen saver images using a single display device at substantially the same time. In some embodiments, some or all of the screen saver images are displayed in a plurality of non-overlapping display compartments. The images may be selectively assigned a dominant color, or color scheme. The compartments may have boundaries that can be selectively revised. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventor: Gosukonda Naga Venkata Satya Sudhakar
  • Patent number: 8656485
    Abstract: A projection display device that operates, in case that the second authentication information which is input does not match the first authentication information which is stored, operates in the second operation mode in which the projection display device projects in a state that an operation to change the environmental setting information is disabled to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8648850
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling picture quality of a flat panel display capable of electrically compensating for a display defect of a display panel are disclosed. The method of compensating for a display defect of a flat panel display includes reading identification information of a display panel; generating positional information indicating the position of the display defect and the form of the display defect of the display panel on the basis of first input information and the identification information; generating a compensation value for compensating the degree of the display defect of on the basis of second input information; storing the positional information and the compensation value in a memory; and reading the positional information and the compensation value from the memory, modulating data to be displayed at the position of the display defect of the display panel by the compensation value, and displaying the modulated data on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hye Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8610735
    Abstract: An image converting device includes; a downscaling unit which downscales a two-dimensional image to generate at least one downscaling image, a feature map generating unit which extracts feature information from the downscaling image to generate a feature map, a visual attention calculating unit which generates a low-level attention map based on a visual attention of the feature map, and an image expansion unit which up-scales the low-level attention map, wherein an increasing gray value may be added to image data disposed on the upper portion in the low-level attention map, and 0 or a decreasing gray value may be added to the image data disposed on the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mun-San Park, Cheol-Woo Park, Ung-Gyu Min
  • Patent number: 8593476
    Abstract: A method and system for accurate and precise representation of color for still and moving images, particularly sequences of digitized color images. Spectral and/or extended dynamic range information is retained as images are captured, processed, and presented during color adjustment. Using this extra spectral information, various methodologies for further presenting or processing the color within these images can be optimized. Presentation-device independence is achieved not by attempting to discover a device-independent intermediate representation, but rather by deferring the binding and mapping of color representation onto a presentation device until its actual use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Gary Demos
  • Patent number: 8587606
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first extraction unit extracts a first group of pixels having a specific hue from an input image. A second extraction unit extracts a second group of pixels having large distance from a reference axis on a plane defined by a chroma axis and a luminance axis from the first group. A first transform unit executes a plurality of color-transform processing to the second group and obtains a plurality of third groups of pixels as the second group transformed by each color-transform processing. A reliability calculation unit calculates a reliability of each third group. The reliability is larger when pixels of the third group are more located in shape of a straight line on the plane. A selection unit selects a color-transform processing by which the third group has the largest reliability from the plurality of color-transform processing. A second transform unit executes the color-transform processing to the input image to obtain an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasutoyo Takeyama, Yoshie Imai, Toshimitsu Kaneko, Masahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 8482625
    Abstract: Noise level estimation includes examining color correlation in a digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Carl Staelin, Hila Nachlieli, Ron Maurer
  • Patent number: 8456403
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in m×n matrix; a register for defining polarity pattern information, frame rotation information, and line rotation information to determine a polarity of a data voltage charged in N lines, wherein N is a positive integer less than n; a timing controller for generating a polarity control signal to control polarities of data voltages charged in n lines of the liquid crystal display panel based on the information read from the register; and source drive ICs for converting the polarities of the data voltages supplied to the data lines in response to the polarity control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suhyuk Jang, Yangseok Jeong, Songjae Lee
  • Patent number: 8391626
    Abstract: A coefficient learning apparatus includes: a student-image generation section configured to generate a student image from the teacher image; a class classification section configured to sequentially set each of pixels in the teacher image as a pixel of interest and generate a class for the pixel of interest from the values of a plurality of specific pixels; a weight computation section configured to add up feature quantities; and a processing-coefficient generation section configured to generate a prediction coefficient on the basis of a determinant including said deterioration equation and a weighted constraint condition equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Takahashi, Hisakazu Shiraki, Takahiro Nagano, Yasuhiro Suto, Kenji Takahashi, Tsutomu Watanabe, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20130044124
    Abstract: Described herein are various technologies pertaining to dynamically modifying content that is desirably displayed on a large display to correct for distortions caused by a position of eyes of a user relative to the large display. Modification of the content is undertaken dynamically based at least in part upon a sensed or computed position of the user relative to the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: James Theodore Reichert, JR.
  • Patent number: 8248431
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an extraction unit extracting predetermined color areas from an input image, a calculation unit calculating each of representative colors of the extracted predetermined color areas, an evaluation unit evaluating whether hue values of the representative colors of the predetermined color areas are distributed in both directions from the hue value of a target color, and a color correcting unit, in which when it is determined that the hue values of the representative colors of the predetermined color areas are not distributed in both directions from the hue value of the target color, color correction is performed on the predetermined color areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunobu Shirata