Color Balance Or Temperature (e.g., White Balance) Patents (Class 348/655)
  • Patent number: 10986322
    Abstract: An image white balance processing method is provided. The image white balance processing method includes: calculating color coordinate points; when it is determined that the color coordinate points are in a first given region, calculating a plurality of weighted averages according to a plurality of coordinate components and a plurality of weight values of color coordinate points of a white given image region, and when it is determined that the color coordinate points are in a second given region, calculating a plurality of averages according to a plurality of coordinate components of color coordinate points of a green given image region; calculating an estimated coordinate point; and calculating a plurality of white balance gains according to the number of a plurality of white given image regions and green given image regions, the plurality of weighted averages, and the estimated coordinate point to compensate for the plurality of given image regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Xiao-Yu Chen, Gang Shen, Yang Lu, Dong-Yu He
  • Patent number: 10887567
    Abstract: An image processing system receives image data acquired by an imaging device, and separates one or more achromatic colors from one or more chromatic colors in the received image data. The achromatic colors and the chromatic colors are processed based at least on a color temperature and lux to generate an adjusted color appearance for the achromatic colors by applying one or more defined weight values associated with the achromatic colors or the chromatic colors, respectively. The defined weight values associated with the one or more achromatic colors are different than the defined weight values associated with the one or more chromatic colors. A final image is generated using the adjusted color appearance for the one or more achromatic colors and the adjusted color appearance for the one or more achromatic colors that is more aligned with human vision and cognitive systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Vickrant J. Zunjarrao
  • Patent number: 10880458
    Abstract: A video image processing method and apparatus is described. The method includes obtaining a first key point of an Mth frame image in a video. The method further includes performing weighted smoothing on the first key point of the Mth frame image according to first key points in a historical key point queue and weights in a first target weight queue, to obtain a target key point. The historical key point queue includes a first key point corresponds to each frame image in N frame images. The N frame images are images before the Mth frame image, N>0. The weights in the first target weight queue corresponding to the first key points in the historical key point queue, A weight corresponding to a first key point of an (M-a)th frame image being greater than or equal to a weight corresponding to a first key point of an (M-b)th frame image, and a<b. The method further includes adjusting the Mth frame image according to the target key point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiaolong Zhu, Yitong Wang, Kaining Huang, Lijian Mei, Shenghui Huang, Jingmin Luo
  • Patent number: 10798358
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes: each frame of image in multiple continuous frames of images is processed to determine a number of light sources of each frame of image; it is determined whether a difference between a number of light sources of a kth frame of image and a number of light sources of a (k+1)th frame of image is equal to 0; and when the difference is unequal to 0, a color temperature of the (k+1)th frame of image is determined to be a color temperature of the kth frame of image and the (k+1)th frame of image is processed according to the color temperature of the (k+1)th frame of image. An image processing device, a computer-readable storage medium and a computer device are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Huichao Wang
  • Patent number: 10791596
    Abstract: The indication of an input or output level of an analog signal is given at low production cost and without the need for a wide space to install a configuration for indicating the input or output level. An analog signal input device (1) includes: a voltage detecting section (130) configured to detect an input or output level of an analog signal; and an LED lighting control section (132) configured to control a pattern of light emission of an LED (15) in accordance with the input or output level of the analog signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Kudo
  • Patent number: 10057633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving an ultra high-definition broadcasting signal for expressing high-quality color in a digital broadcasting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunmook Oh, Jongyeul Suh, Soojin Hwang
  • Patent number: 9990899
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprising a display section provided by pixels arranged in a grid pattern, each of the pixels being formed of a light-emitting element, in which basic grids are repeatedly arranged in a grid pattern, each of the basic grids consisting of four pixels of a 2 by 2 matrix, each of the basic grids having a pattern in which one or two pixels of the four pixels being assigned a three-in-one element including three primary colors of R, G, and B and the remaining pixels being assigned a single-color light-emitting element, and the apparatus comprises processor for correcting a first color reproduction range provided by chromaticities of the three primary colors of R, G, and B to a second color reproduction range by light-emission intensity of the single-color light-emitting element and shifting chromaticity points for the three colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zenichiro Hara, Shoji Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9626892
    Abstract: An optimization system of real-time LCD white balance selection includes an RGB to YUV conversion unit, a white balance adjustment unit, and a YUV to RGB conversion unit. The RGB to YUV conversion unit receives an image signal and converts the image signal from RGB domain to YUV domain to generate a first YUV image signal. The white balance adjustment unit is connected to the RGB to YUV conversion unit for performing a white balance adjustment on the first YUV image signal and thus generating a second YUV image signal. The YUV to RGB conversion unit is connected to the white balance adjustment unit for converting the second YUV image signal from YUV domain to RGB domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FOCALTECH SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hung-Chu Wu
  • Patent number: 9459512
    Abstract: A display system, having an emissive body, emitting light in a way that is color temperature controllable. The light emission can be from zones. The emissive body can be a FIPEL type device with a first transparent conductive coating over a light emitting substrate. The zones are each separately controllable for color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Vizio, Inc
    Inventor: Matthew McRae
  • Patent number: 9437160
    Abstract: A system for automatic color matching of multiple displays in a multi-display system. A sensor observes the output energy of each of the displays in a multi-display system and measures the difference in the color responses for a given input color. This difference is used to derive a modification function that is applied to each display. The displays are modified accordingly, and then the color is displayed again. This process is repeated until the measured values from each of the displays are within a minimum measurement error tolerance, so that the differences in displayed colors observed among the displays are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mersive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher O. Jaynes, Thomson Comer, Stephen B. Webb, Michael Tolliver
  • Patent number: 9307213
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for robust weighting of gray patches in automatic white balancing in an image-capture device by utilizing kernel density estimation techniques with dynamically variable bandwidth to determine the probability density of samples to create an initial estimate, then verifying the initial gray point estimate to account for outliers. In one embodiment, given a set of image data, an initial gray point estimate in a color space is determined for the set of image data. The initial estimate is then refined by weighting the sub-population with the greatest probability of being gray. A final evaluation that includes a further comparison to pre-programmed constraints determines a final estimate, which can still be further tuned according to user preferences by adjusting color biases. The resulting final gray point estimate provides greater stability, and greatly improved accuracy over traditional techniques and solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sean Midthun Pieper
  • Patent number: 9251761
    Abstract: A gray scale correction method for a display device includes a step of setting a target value including a target luminance and a target chromaticity of a color display pixel (S22), a step of measuring tristimulus values of each of a plurality of reference colors and each of a plurality of comparative colors in accordance with a prescribed gamma characteristic (S24), a step of finding a reference value and a comparative value from the measured tristimulus values (S26), and a step of correcting a gray scale based on the target value, the reference value and the comparative value (S28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Shigeta, Nobuo Okano
  • Patent number: 9041864
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed to provide improved temporal stabilization of a control algorithm associated with the processing of streaming frames. In the context of a method, the number of immediately preceding consecutive frames during which a filtered value has been greater than a current value of the current frame is determined or the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames during which the filtered value has been less than the current value of the current frame is determined. The method also includes determining a weight based upon the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames. The weight is configured to vary in a direct relationship to the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames. The method also determines a filtered value of a current frame based upon a combination of the weight and the difference between the prior filtered value and the value of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Petri Nenonen
  • Patent number: 8988452
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for color enhancement via gamut expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ya-Ti Peng, Yi-Jen Chiu
  • Patent number: 8970788
    Abstract: A gain-determining method for grayscale white balance of a display apparatus comprising a panel is provided. The method first displays a white, a red, a green, and a blue images on the panel respectively and measures the chromatic values and luminance of the images. Next, the chromatic values and luminance of a target white image is inputted. Following, according to the measured chromatic values and luminance of the white, the red, the green and the blue images, a first set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Then, according to the chromatic values and luminance of the target white image and the chromatic values and luminance of the red, the green and the blue images, a second set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Finally, according to the first set and the second set of color mixture ratios, a red gain, a green gain and a blue gain are calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chwan Chao, Yi-Sheng Yu, Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8953013
    Abstract: This invention discloses an image pickup device and an image synthesis method thereof The image pickup device comprises an image-pickup module, an image-synthesis module, a database and a processing module. The image-pickup module captures a plurality of temporary images of a scene. The image-synthesis module extracts a part of each temporary image and combines the parts to form a panorama temporary image, and splits the panorama temporary image into a plurality of zone-areas according to at least one threshold value and a panorama luminosity histogram. The database stores a lookup table for recording a plurality of exposure values. The plurality of the exposure values correspond to luminance values of the zone-areas respectively. The processing module obtains the plurality of exposure values corresponding to the luminance values and obtains a weighting-exposure value by an equation, and controls the image-pickup module to capture the panorama image according to the weighting-exposure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Altek Corporation
    Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Chia-Chun Tseng, Chia-Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 8896706
    Abstract: A method for providing a mapping from apparent color to actual color for an image capture device including capturing an image of a reference color chart having a plurality of color patches using the image capture device, wherein each color patch has an associated reference color, measuring the apparent color of the plurality of color patches in the captured image, selecting a plurality of control points representing different hue values within a circular hue space, determining an angular offset for each control point such that the distance between a transformed apparent color and the reference color for each color patch is minimized, the angular offset representing a hue correction, wherein interpolation of the angular offsets for the control points provides a mapping from apparent color to actual color for the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LBT Innovations, Limited
    Inventors: Anton John van den Hengel, Rhys Ernst Hill
  • Publication number: 20140340580
    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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya NAKAMURA, Masahiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8854709
    Abstract: A method of white balancing an image includes mapping pixels of the image to a color space diagram. Each of the pixels of the image include a red (“R”), a green (“G”), and a blue (“B”) subvalue. A first central tendency of each of the RGB subvalues of pixels mapped in a first pre-defined region of the color space diagram is determined and a second central tendency of each of the RGB subvalues of pixels mapped in a second pre-defined region of the color space diagram is determined. The first pre-defined region is associated with a first illuminating source and the second pre-defined region is associated with a second illuminating source. RGB values of a white pixel are generated based on the first and second central tendencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chengming Liu, Changmeng Liu, Jizhang Shan
  • Patent number: 8850714
    Abstract: A chromaticity correction device corrects chromaticity of a video signal displayed on a display panel of a display device to correspond to a change in a luminance value of the display panel. The chromaticity correction device includes a luminance detection unit which detects the luminance value, a backlight driving level detection unit which detects a backlight driving level, a temperature detection unit which detects an internal device temperature or an ambient temperature, a reference luminance value calculation unit which estimates a reference luminance value in a characteristic of an initial state, a chromaticity calculation unit which obtains a chromaticity change amount of white point chromaticity and estimated white point chromaticity that is an estimated value of current white point chromaticity, a chromaticity correction value calculation unit which obtains a chromaticity correction value and a chromaticity correction circuit which corrects the chromaticity of the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 8830360
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optimizing image quality based on scene content comprising a sensor for generating a sequence of frames where each frame in the sequence of frames comprises content representing a scene and a digital processor, coupled to the sensor, for performing scene content analysis and for establishing a window defining a number of input frames from the sensor and processed output frames, and for aligning and combining the number of frames in the window to form an output frame, wherein sensor parameters and frame combination parameters are adjusted based on scene content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Peter Jeffrey Burt, Sek Meng Chai, David Chao Zhang, Michael Raymond Piacentino, Gooitzen Siemen van der Wal, Peter Alan Levine, Thomas Lee Vogelsong, John Robertson Tower
  • Patent number: 8829472
    Abstract: An image display device includes an excitation light source; a fluorescent screen including a plurality of phosphor regions that are repeatedly formed in an in-plane direction and a retro-reflection region that reflects a part of incident light in the opposite direction of the incident light; a scanning unit that scans a surface of fluorescent screen on which the phosphor regions and the retro-reflection region are formed with excitation light from the excitation light source; a photo detection unit that outputs signal value that varies on the basis of an incident light amount onto the photo detection unit; a reflection unit that reflects retro-reflection light of the excitation light directed from the retro-reflection region to the photo detection unit; and a control unit that causes the scanning unit to scan the fluorescent screen, detects boundaries between the phosphor regions and the retro-reflection region on the fluorescent screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Ohta, Kazuhiko Aoki
  • Patent number: 8817039
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. An image processing device includes: a color gamut conversion processor configured to convert inputted data into RGB data according to a liquid crystal panel; a weighting factor calculator configured to calculate a weighting factor; a first post-color-gamut-conversion data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the RGB data; an inputted data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the inputted data; and an output adder configured to add data after the weighting processing to generate RGB data to be supplied to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xiaomang Zhang, Akiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8767128
    Abstract: An image display device such as LCD television comprises: LUTs (look-up tables) which are tables of correction data for correcting color balance of a displayed image; gain adjustment units for providing gain to input signal values representing brightness levels of red, green and blue colors in image data of the displayed image; and a microcomputer for recalculating the correction data in the LUTs and updating the correction data to the recalculated ones. The microcomputer determines, as adjustment gain values, gain values which are provided to the input signal values by the gain adjustment units and which bring color balance of a white balance adjustment image to a predetermined color balance, and recalculates the correction data in the LUTs based on the correction data and the adjustment gain values. This image display device can increase accuracy of white balance adjustment and reduce time required for the white balance adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8760536
    Abstract: A camera device (1) includes: an imaging unit (2) having a complementary color filter; a color temperature estimating unit (8) that estimates a color temperature on the basis of a video signal obtained from the imaging unit (2); a color parameter calculating unit (9) that calculates a color parameter value corresponding to the estimated color temperature; and a color calibrating unit (7) that performs color calibration using the calculated color parameter value. The color parameter calculating unit (9) calculates the color parameter value corresponding to the estimated color temperature on the basis of color parameter values (a first color parameter value and a second color parameter value) at two reference color temperatures (a first color temperature 2000 K and a second color temperature 3200 K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Oyabu, Yasuji Nakamura, Yuma Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140139745
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed to provide improved temporal stabilization of a control algorithm associated with the processing of streaming frames. In the context of a method, the number of immediately preceding consecutive frames during which a filtered value has been greater than a current value of the current frame is determined or the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames during which the filtered value has been less than the current value of the current frame is determined. The method also includes determining a weight based upon the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames. The weight is configured to vary in a direct relationship to the number of immediately preceding, consecutive frames. The method also determines a filtered value of a current frame based upon a combination of the weight and the difference between the prior filtered value and the value of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Petri Nenonen
  • Patent number: 8723880
    Abstract: A white balance method for a display image is disclosed. The steps of the method includes: measuring gray levels of a basic and reference colors based on a plurality of color temperatures; obtaining reference color gains according to average values of the gray level of the reference and basic colors and a ratio according to the reference color gains corresponding to each of the color temperatures; dividing the display image into a plurality of blocks, and obtaining a reference color gain of each of blocks according to the average values of the gray levels of reference and basic colors, and obtaining a block ratio of each of blocks; generating a selected number corresponding to each of the color temperature according to the ratios and the block ratios; selecting the basic and reference color gains of one of the color temperatures for executing white balance to the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8704953
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing device includes: an operator configured to accept a gain adjustment value with respect to at least any one of an R signal, a G signal, and a B signal of a video signal from a user; a gain adjuster configured to obtain a gain by using a white balance adjustment value and the gain adjustment value with respect to each of the R, G, and B signals; a determiner configured to determine whether any of the gain of the R signal, the gain of the G signal, and the gain of the B signal is equal to or greater than 1; and a processor configured to decrease the gain when any of the gain of the R signal, the gain of the G signal, and the gain of the B signal is equal to or greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Masaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8659709
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140009683
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an environment light white balance gain generating section configured to generate an environment light white balance gain from an image taken under environment light, a combined white balance gain generating section configured to combine a fill light white balance gain corresponding to a color temperature of fill light with the environment light white balance gain to generate a combined white balance gain, and a white balance gain correcting section configured to correct the combined white balance gain in accordance with a ratio of the environment light to the fill light. The corrected combined white balance gain is applied to an image taken under mixed light including the fill light and the environment light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8614750
    Abstract: An apparatus for auto white balance includes a histogram generation unit writing respective histograms of Cb values and Cr values with regard to pixels included in an input image frame, a single-tone determination unit comparing respective maximum values of the histograms of Cb values and Cr values with a first threshold value, and determining the input image frame as a single-tone image if at least one of the maximum values is higher than the first threshold value, and an auto white balance gain computation unit computing and an auto white balance gain by using color information of an input image frame and outputting the computed auto white balance gain, wherein if the input image frame is determined to be a single-tone image, the auto white balance gain computation unit outputs an auto white balance gain computed with respect to a previous input image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hyun Kim, Bong Soon Kang, Sung Mok Lee, Won Woo Jang, Kyung Rin Kim, Won Tae Choi, Joo Young Ha
  • Publication number: 20130321706
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing device includes: an operator configured to accept a gain adjustment value with respect to at least any one of an R signal, a G signal, and a B signal of a video signal from a user; a gain adjuster configured to obtain a gain by using a white balance adjustment value and the gain adjustment value with respect to each of the R, G, and B signals; a determiner configured to determine whether any of the gain of the R signal, the gain of the G signal, and the gain of the B signal is equal to or greater than 1; and a processor configured to decrease the gain when any of the gain of the R signal, the gain of the G signal, and the gain of the B signal is equal to or greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Masaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8593480
    Abstract: Image data is transformed for display on a target display. A sigmoidal transfer function provides a free parameter controlling min-tone contrast. The transfer function may be dynamically adjusted to accommodate changing ambient lighting conditions. The transformation may be selected so as to automatically adapt image data for display on a target display in a way that substantially preserves creative intent embodied in the image data. The image data may be video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Ballestad, Andrey Kostin
  • Patent number: 8587204
    Abstract: This invention relates to an ambience lighting system for a display device, where light sources are mounted at the periphery or at the rear side of the display device for emitting an ambience light onto a wall behind the display device. An input means receives color information indicating the color of the wall. A processor then adjusts the color of the emitted ambience light to the received color information of the wall such that the light reflected from the wall towards a viewing area of the display device matches the screen colors of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: TP Vision Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Erwin Marcel Anna Matthys
  • Patent number: 8564860
    Abstract: An image processor includes an identifying unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The identifying unit identifies a white point value of an image represented by first image data. The white point value indicates a first color temperature. The first correcting unit performs a white balance correction on the first image data such that the white point value approaches a target white point value. The target white point value indicates a second color temperature. The second correcting unit performs a brightness correction for correcting the first image data corrected by the first correcting unit into second image data such that an image corresponding to the second image data is brighter as the second color temperature is higher than the first color temperature and such that the image corresponding to the second image data is darker as the second color temperature is lower than the first color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhide Sawada
  • Publication number: 20130258199
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a video processor. The video processor includes: a storage configured to store characteristic data of a display; a generator configured to generate target tristimulus values based on the characteristic data and a luminance value at a first gradation level and to generate correction values based on the target tristimulus values; and a processor configured to correct a color temperature of at least an interval between a high-gradation portion and a low-gradation portion based on the correction values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro OOKAWARA
  • Publication number: 20130250177
    Abstract: Using a lookup table for obtaining a tentative-display image having colors that agree with colors of a projection image when a screening film, which is produced based on image data produced by measuring a shading pattern of a projector used to screen the screening film onto a screen and editing an input image, is projected onto the screen, color-correction image data for tentatively displaying the projection image are produced from image data, while image data are produced by providing color-correction image data with the shading pattern and, for verifying a showing of the projection image to be projected, the projection image is tentatively displayed as the tentative-display image based on the shading-provided image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuharu IWAKI
  • Patent number: 8520022
    Abstract: Display functions in an electronic device may comprise combining runtime color adjustments with brightness adjustments triggered by ambient light detection. Light sensors may be utilized to detect ambient lighting conditions, which may cause adjustment of brightness level applicable to a display (or screen) of the electronic device. The adjustment of brightness level may then be combined with adjustment of contrast level that may also be applicable to display functions. In this regard, a particular contrast level may be selected based on the detected ambient lighting conditions—e.g., by mapping various contrast levels to preconfigured ambient lighting levels. The contrast adjustment may comprise adjusting colors and/or sharpness. Using contrast adjustments, in conjunction with the brightness adjustments, may allow for achieving the same levels of readability with less brightness, and/or for increased readability with the same brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Cohen, Michael A. Cleron
  • Patent number: 8514333
    Abstract: An image display device such as an LCD television comprises a microcomputer and look-up tables to store correction data for correcting color balance of an image to be displayed. The microcomputer recalculates correction data in the look-up tables and updates the correction data to the recalculated correction data based on: an input value InL and an input value InH of image data of a Low side and a High side white balance adjustment image, respectively; and a gain value GainL and a gain value GainH provided to the input values InL and InH, respectively, to bring color balance of the Low side and High side white balance adjustment image to a predetermined color balance, respectively. This image display device can increase accuracy of white balance adjustment and reduce time required for the white balance adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Nakamura, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8514334
    Abstract: An image display device such as an LCD television comprises a microcomputer and LUTs (look-up tables) which are tables of correction data for correcting color balance of an image to be displayed. The microcomputer recalculates correction data in the LUTs and updates the correction data to the recalculated correction data based on: an input value InL of image data of a Low side white balance adjustment image; an input value InH of image data of a High side white balance adjustment image; and a gain value GainL and a gain value GainH which are provided to the input value InL and the input value InH, respectively, to bring color balance of the Low side white balance adjustment image and the High side white balance adjustment image to a predetermined color balance, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Nakamura, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8497872
    Abstract: A method for correcting the white balance of a display by: setting a target color coordinates of a target white point at a predetermined color temperature and a group of gray levels in response to an user input command; constructing R, G, B images according to the group gray levels; measuring the luminance and corresponding color coordinates of the R, G, B based on the R, G, B images; selecting one color of R, G, B to be a base color and the other two colors to be adjustable colors; fixing the measured luminance of the base color; estimating target luminance of the two adjustable color based on the measured luminance of the base color; estimating the adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors based on estimated luminance of the adjustable colors and the Gamma table; and reconstructing the Gamma table based on the estimated adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8493514
    Abstract: Disclosed is the apparatus for controlling color temperature enabling the color region determiner to determine whether the inputted chroma signal value in pixels belongs to a pre-set achromatic color region or a chromatic color region, and the color temperature corrector to correct the chroma signal gains according to the determined achromatic color region or chromatic color region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon Seok Choi, Hun Cheol Lee, Hak Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 8467002
    Abstract: A storage unit stores and holds, for each location, a set of location information indicating a location which can be used by a broadcast program and color temperature information in the location. An arithmetic control unit acquires one piece of location information stored and held in the storage unit. A video signal processing unit performs a color correction process for a video signal contained in a broadcast signal on the basis of the color temperature information stored and held in the storage unit and set with the location information acquired by the arithmetic control unit. A display unit displays a video based on the video signal after the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8456483
    Abstract: The subpixel rendering component of a display system provides the capability to substitute a second subpixel rendering filter for a first subpixel rendering filter for computing the values of certain subpixels on the display panel when the input image data being rendered indicates an image feature that may give rise to a color balance error at some portion of the displayed output image. An image processing method of correcting for color balance errors detects the location of a subpixel being rendered and for certain subpixels, detects whether the input image data indicates the presence of a particular image feature. When the image feature is detected for particular subpixels being processed, a second subpixel rendering image filter is substituted for a first subpixel rendering image filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seok-Jin Han
  • Patent number: 8421813
    Abstract: A display device includes a light modulating unit configured to modulate light based on a video signal, a light source configured to supply light to the light modulating unit, a detecting unit configured to detect a light amount of the light source, and a control unit configured to perform control for correcting the video signal based on the detected light amount so as to attain a color temperature and brightness that had already been set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takase
  • Patent number: 8395678
    Abstract: A color reproduction apparatus may include a white balance performing unit to perform white balance with respect to an image obtained from a sensor using a white balance gain, an image restoring unit to restore an RGB image from the white-balanced image by interpolating a color filter array image, a first color corrector to correct a color distortion caused by a light source by applying first correction data, and a second color corrector to correct a color distortion caused by a characteristic of a sensor by applying second correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Jin Lee, Young Su Moon, Sang Jo Lee
  • Publication number: 20130050580
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing method. The image processing method includes forming a reference division line to perform white balance, forming a grid including a pixel distribution degree based on the reference division line, extracting a red gain value, a blue gain value, and the pixel distribution degree with respect to a specific point on the reference division line, determining if the extracted pixel distribution degree is a maxim point, and setting new gain values by using the extracted red gain value and the extracted blue gain value depending on if the pixel distribution degree is the maximum point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD
    Inventors: Soo Jin Park, K.S. Krishna, Babu K. Manohar
  • Patent number: 8330378
    Abstract: An illumination device is provided for controlling a color temperature of light irradiated from a light source having a plurality of light-emitting elements of different light colors. A control setting module provides a control signal associated with a desired color temperature for the irradiated light. A light quantity determination circuit determines light quantities for each of the light-emitting elements based on a relationship between the control signal from the control setting module and an inverse color temperature. A plurality of driver circuits provide driver signals to the light-emitting elements corresponding to the determined light quantities. In this manner the color temperature for light irradiated from the light source coincides with the desired color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Maehara, Kazuyoshi Kadotani, Kenichiro Tanaka, Ichirou Tanimura, Takuya Nobuta
  • Patent number: 8322860
    Abstract: According to one of embodiment, an apparatus for image projecting and a method for controlling color fluctuation of light are acquired the temperatures of a plurality of light sources configured to emit light beams of different colors or the temperature at a position near the light-emitting elements, set an amount of light each of the light sources emits, in accordance with the temperature acquired of the light source, and set at least one of the color and brightness of the image to be projected. The fluctuation of the color or brightness of the image to be projected can therefore be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Osamu Sato, Shuji Otake
  • Patent number: 8319856
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit to acquire image data, an integration unit to calculate a white balance integration value, a first calculation unit to calculate a still image white balance control value, a second calculation unit to calculate a histogram white balance control value, and a histogram processing unit. The second calculation unit calculates the histogram white balance control value by converting a white balance control value which is used in white balance processing on the image data acquired by the imaging unit in an electronic view finder (EVF) mode to the still image white balance control value, and the histogram processing unit adjusts color balance of the image data acquired by the imaging unit using the calculated histogram white balance control value and performs the histogram processing in parallel with calculation of the white balance integration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeo Ogawa