Color Television Patents (Class 348/675)
  • Patent number: 11401045
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage, a gimbal-mounted turret having one or more degrees of freedom relative to the fuselage, a camera disposed in the gimbal-mounted turret for motion therewith in the one or more degrees of freedom, and a central video image processor disposed exteriorly of the gimbal-mounted turret, the central video image processor configured to receive and process image data from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Tom Omer, Thomas Szarek, Jefferson C. McBride
  • Patent number: 10796461
    Abstract: At least one processor configured as hardware generates gamma correction processing information based on an achromatic color input value and an output value acquired by referencing a three-dimensional LUT based on the achromatic color input value, references the three-dimensional LUT based on a representative input value as a chromatic color input value to acquire a representative output value, sets color difference signal processing information such that the representative output value is obtained when the representative input value is subjected to gamma correction processing and color difference signal processing, and subjects an image signal to gamma correction processing and color difference signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Takasumi
  • Patent number: 10692196
    Abstract: Color correction is integrated within global tone mapping operations to modify an image captured using an image capture device. New luminance values are determined for the pixels of the image by performing global tone mapping against those pixels using one or more sets of color correction values, which are applied against respective luminance values and color components of those pixels. The sets of color correction values are identified within 3×3 color correction matrices. A gain curve for modifying contrast values of the image is determined based on at least one of the new luminance values. A modified image is then generated by modifying the contrast values according to the gain curve, for example, by applying a gamma curve against the contrast values using data stored in a three-dimensional lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Matthieu Guérin, Giuseppe Moschetti
  • Patent number: 10455245
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a device and a method of decoding a color picture from a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Sebastien Lasserre, Fabrice Leleannec, Yannick Olivier
  • Patent number: 10319310
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including first group pixels connected to a first gate line to receive first data voltages, and second group pixels connected to the first gate line to receive second data voltages; a backlight source to provide light to the display panel; a signal controller to divide horizontal image signals into first group image signals and second group image signals, to extract a first maximum grayscale image signal from the first group image signals, and to extract a second maximum grayscale image signal from the second group image signals; a power supply to generate first and second gamma driving voltages from a reference gamma driving voltage based on a grayscale level of the first maximum grayscale image signal and a grayscale level of the second maximum grayscale image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-taek Kim, Kyoungwon Lee, Joon-chul Goh, Youngwoo Choi
  • Patent number: 10276090
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a controller configured to correct input image signals supplied from the outside according to an amount of voltage drop; a data driver configured to supply data signals corresponding to the corrected image signals; and a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to scan lines. The controller includes: a load factor calculator configured to calculate a load factor of a panel; a horizontal block load factor calculator configured to calculate a driving current of a plurality of horizontal blocks formed by dividing the panel according to the scan lines; a voltage drop amount calculator configured to calculate the amount of the voltage drop based on the driving current; and a lookup table generator configured to generate a voltage drop correction lookup table based on the amount of the voltage drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Sook Park, Ji-Hye Eom, Sun-Joon Hwang
  • Patent number: 10062356
    Abstract: An imager is provided for viewing subcutaneous structures. In an embodiment of the invention, the imager includes a camera configured to generate a video frame, and an adaptive nonlinear processor. The adaptive nonlinear processor is configured to adjust a signal of the video frame below a first threshold to a maximum dark level and to adjust the signal of the video frame above a second threshold to a maximum light level. The imager further includes a display, configured to display the processed video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Admin of National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Michael J Krasowski, Joseph M Flatico, Phillip P Jenkins, Lawrence C Greer
  • Patent number: 10019928
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a mura compensation value, a device for obtaining a mura compensation value and a display panel. The method includes: obtaining an image of a detection picture displayed on a display panel, extracting display data matrices of three primary colors, obtaining first correction matrices of the three primary colors, obtaining position coordinates of extreme points of the first correction matrices of the three primary colors, obtaining second correction matrices and a third correction matrix group of the three primary colors, obtaining compensation matrices from the third correction matrices as mura compensation values of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUPO CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongze He, Jieqiong Wang, Dan Su, Shuo Li, Jianguang Yang, Zhipeng Feng, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9721328
    Abstract: A method to enhance the contrast of a set of pixels each pixels being characterized by a set of color attributes comprising the steps of: determining a first property of the set of pixels; determining a second property of the set of pixels; determining, for each pixel of the set of pixels, a first property of said pixel; and modifying the color attributes of each pixel of the set of pixels as a function of the first and second property of the set of pixels and the first property of said pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Barco N.V.
    Inventors: Albert Xthona, David Qualman
  • Patent number: 9454937
    Abstract: A timing controller capable of adjusting luminance of a maximum gradation according to an amount of white of image data to thus enhance picture quality and reduce power consumption of a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display device having the same, and a driving method thereof are provided. The timing controller includes: a gamma adjusting unit for receiving image data and a plurality of driving signals input from the outside, generating a gate control signal and a data control signal according to the plurality of driving signals, adjusting luminance according to an amount of white in the image data, and generating a corresponding gamma control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KyungRok Kim, SaiChang Yun, YouSung Nam, MoonSoo Chung
  • Patent number: 9344710
    Abstract: An image signal processing device is provided which includes a receiving unit for receiving an image signal and setting information for each predetermined unit of the image signal including image type setting information to define whether the image signal represents a stereoscopic image and gamma correction setting information to define a gamma correction amount for the image signal, a gamma correcting unit for performing gamma correction for the image signal based on the gamma correction setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit, and a stereoscopic image processing unit for selectively performing a process to display the stereoscopic image for the image signal corrected by the gamma correcting unit based on the image type setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 9324285
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a display panel; a correction circuit which performs gamma correction on target image data in response to correction data specifying a gamma curve; and a driver circuit driving the display panel in response to gamma-corrected data received from the correction circuit. The correction circuit is configured to perform approximate gamma correction in accordance with a correction expression in which the target image data is defined as a variable of the correction expression and coefficients of the same are determined on the correction data, and to modify the correction data in response to target image data associated with the target pixel of the gamma correction and the pixel adjacent to the target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 9098231
    Abstract: An image transform apparatus for displaying image characteristics of a second display on a first display includes a first transform unit, for transforming a first image signal of the first display to a first output signal according to a second gamma value associated with the second display; a second transform unit, for transforming the first output signal to a second output signal according to a transform gain function associated with the first display and the second display; and a third transform unit, for transforming the second output signal to a second image signal according to a first gamma value associated with the first display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Chuan Shen
  • Publication number: 20150103252
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating a gamma adjusted value. The method comprises generating a logarithm space representation of an input value by computing a logarithm of the input value, computing a logarithm space gamma-adjusted value by multiplying the logarithm space representation with a current gamma value, and generating the gamma adjusted value by computing an antilogarithm of the logarithm space gamma-adjusted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Narendra Keshav Rane, Mukesh Chand Agarwal, Sandeep Vangipuram, Satinder Kumar
  • Patent number: 8964124
    Abstract: A video display device increases a feeling of brightness and expresses a video with high contrast by detecting a part of a video signal that emits light, enhancing the display luminance of the light-emitting part, and displaying the part. A light emission detection portion (1) uses a prescribed feature quantity related to the brightness of an input video signal, predetermines the light emission quantity for the video signal on the basis of the relationship with the feature quantity, and detects the light emission quantity for each input video signal frame from the feature quantity. A backlight luminance stretch portion (3) stretches the light source luminance of the backlight according to the light emission quantity detected. A video signal luminance stretch portion (6) stretches the video signal according to the light emission quantity or the luminance distribution of the input video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Tomoharu Noutoshi, Yoji Shiraya
  • Patent number: 8824006
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a color correction apparatus includes an input portion, a storing portion and a correction portion. The input portion inputs color image signals which correspond to recording color material amounts. The storing portion stores a standard color reproduction parameter for calculating a standard color reproduction chromaticity and reference chromaticity deviation amounts at a plurality of reference color points in recording color material amount coordinate space. The correction portion estimates chromaticity deviation amounts of the input color image signals on the basis of the reference chromaticity deviation amount, calculates a standard chromaticity which corresponds to the input color image signals on the basis of the standard color reproduction parameter and corrects the input color image signals on the basis of the estimated chromaticity deviation amounts and the standard chromaticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Sawada, Naofumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8780273
    Abstract: There is a signal processing apparatus, including a gamma correction circuit that performs gamma correction on an input luminance signal and generates an output luminance signal, an output-to-input ratio calculation circuit that calculates a ratio of the output luminance signal to the input luminance signal as an output-to-input ratio of a luminance signal, and a color difference correction circuit that multiplies an input color difference signal by the output-to-input ratio of the luminance signal and generates an output color difference signal. As a result, by correcting the input color difference signal using the output-to-input ratio of the luminance signal, the output color difference signal in which color difference correction has been performed in view of influence of gamma correction can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ikeda, Toshimichi Hamada, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 8743289
    Abstract: An image display apparatus of the present invention includes: a picture display unit that forms and displays an optical image based on a video signal; a gamma adjustment image display unit that displays a gamma adjustment image containing input/output characteristics of a signal level of the video signal in the displayed optical image; an adjustment operation unit that changes the displayed input/output characteristics on the image; and an input/output characteristics setting unit that sets input/output characteristics of the signal level of the video signal in accordance with the input/output characteristics changed on the image. The adjustment operation unit includes a point selecting part that selects an adjustment point desired to be changed in the input/output characteristics displayed in the image and a level changing part that is capable of changing both of an input level and an output level of the selected adjustment point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Mukai
  • Patent number: 8625031
    Abstract: A histogram generation portion calculates a prescribed feature value of a pixel and the maximum feature value for the pixel, for each pixel of one frame of an input video signal. Then, the ratio of the feature value of the pixel to the maximum feature value is calculated for each pixel as an index of color brightness, and a histogram generated wherein the numbers of pixels are integrated by index value. An enhancement processing portion applies gain and carries out an enhancement for pixel values wherein the index in the histogram which the histogram generation portion generates is greater than or equal to a prescribed threshold. The feature value is treated as a luminosity (L*) which is defined with CIELAB chroma space. Additionally, the feature value may be data which has the maximum tone value among pixel RGB data, or may be a luminosity value (Y) of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoharu Noutoshi, Takashi Kanda, Toshiyuki Fujine
  • Patent number: 8614719
    Abstract: A device can perform gamma correction by receiving a non-gamma compensated input; selecting, in response to the input value, a selected approximating interval out of a group of low-brightness approximating intervals and out of a group of high-brightness approximating intervals; multiplying a portion of the input value by a selected approximating interval slope to provide an intermediate result; adding the intermediate result to a selected approximating interval offset to provide the gamma compensated output value; and outputting a gamma compensated output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Zarubinsky, Konstantin Berman, Arnold Yanof
  • Patent number: 8587728
    Abstract: In a microdisplay TV with dynamic iris control, interpolation is used to undertake 3D gamma adjustment of the display for intermediate brightness levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Guillermo Castano De La Serna
  • Patent number: 8576145
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electroluminescent display to produce an image for display that has reduced luminance to reduce burn-in on the display while maintaining visible contrast, includes providing the electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of EL emitters, the luminance of the light produced by each EL emitter being responsive to a respective drive signal; receiving a respective input image signal for each EL emitter; and transforming the input image signals to a plurality of drive signals that have a reduced peak frame luminance value but maintains contrast in the displayed image to reduce burn-in by adjusting the drive signals to have reduced luminance provided by each pixel with the luminance decrease in a shadow range being less than the luminance decrease in a non-shadow range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
  • Patent number: 8446496
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a knee correction device includes a generator, a detector, a mixer, and a calculator. The generator generates a luminance signal from R, G, and B color signals. The detector detects a color signal having a maximum value among the R, G, and B color signals. The mixer mixes the luminance signal generated by the generator and the color signal detected by the detector, at a predetermined mixing ratio. The supply module supplies a coefficient for performing level compression on each of the R, G, and B color signals, based on an output of the mixer. The calculator performs level compression on the R, G, and B color signals by subjecting the coefficient supplied by the supply module and the R, G, and B color signals to a calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kei Tashiro, Akihiko Kubota, Yoshiyuki Niijima
  • Publication number: 20130021528
    Abstract: This invention discloses an image transmission and display method complies with both chromaticity and visual fidelity principles. It is in the technical field of image transmission and display. In order to totally eliminate factors that affect image reproduction fidelity during process of image transmission and reproduction on display devices (including channel independence and space independence of three primary colors, red-shift effect, gamma correction, methods to generate brightness information and chromatic difference information, gamma correction for all kinds of display devices), this invention created a set of mathematical models and methods. With the invention, data flows are processed complying with both chromaticity and visual fidelity to ensure hues of reproduced image on display device remain unchanged, gray is reproduced accurately and chromaticity coordinates ratio remains unchanged as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventor: Shichang Liu
  • Publication number: 20130016285
    Abstract: Described herein are light emitting element driver integrated circuits (ICs), methods for use with light emitting element driver ICs, and projector systems that include a light emitting element driver IC. A light emitting element driver IC receives a color data word from the video processor IC. Starting with the color data word received from the video processor IC, the light emitting element driver IC performs a gamma expansion function to thereby produce a gamma expanded digital or analog signal. Additionally, the light emitting element driver IC outputs, in dependence on the generated gamma expanded digital or analog signal, a gamma expanded analog drive signal for driving the light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: INTERSIL AMERICAS INC.
    Inventor: Michel Combes
  • Patent number: 8279351
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one embodiment, a first representation of a first gamma curve is stored in a look-up table, a second representation of a second gamma curve is stored in a look-up table, and a video signal is modified in accordance with an interpolation of at least a portion of the first representation of the first gamma curve and at least a portion of the second representation of the second gamma curve. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the at least a portion of the first representation of the first gamma curve is multiplied by a one's complement of a normalized weight factor, the at least a portion of the second representation of the second gamma curve is multiplied by the normalized weight factor, and the results are added together to obtain an output video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: RGB Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Bakhmutsky
  • Patent number: 8279348
    Abstract: A display method and apparatus are provided for enabling a user, whether or not he has experience, to readily detect a luminance level of a video image with high accuracy. A luminance level of a video signal of a video image is converted to color information to display a change in the luminance of the video image as a change in color. The conversion preferably involves a method of converting the luminance level to color information of three primary colors, red, green, blue, in accordance with a plurality of weights, respectively, a method of converting a luminance level in a predetermined range to color information having a changing rate larger than a changing rate of the luminance level, a method of converting a luminance level out of the predetermined range to color information of a maximum or a minimum level, or the like. Also, the input video signal is preferably displayed together with a converted video image side by side or one on another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Leader Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yano, Genichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8248493
    Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus includes a non-equidistant section determination circuit, a sample data register, and an interpolation computation circuit. The non-equidistant section determination circuit detects a non-equidistant section having different intervals between plural sample points set for the dynamic range of a video signal to be inputted. The sample data register holds the signal level (correction level) of a video signal after correction for each sample point. The interpolation computation circuit obtains the signal level of the video signal after correction by executing cubic interpolation computation with reference to the correction level. Here, a first section is defined as a section located on a lower signal level side and having intervals of X (X>0) between sample points, and a second section is defined as a section located on a higher level side and having intervals of Y (Y>0, X?Y) between sample points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Fuminori Higashi
  • Patent number: 8115836
    Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus is operative in accordance with multiple display modes. The image reproducing apparatus includes a data reproducing unit that reproduces an image on a display based on high dynamic range image data acquired from an object and stored in memory, and a dynamic range control unit that controls the dynamic range of the image to be reproduced on the display using one of different types of dynamic range control schemes in accordance with one of the display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Miyahara, Hisao Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 8098336
    Abstract: In a microdisplay TV with dynamic iris control, interpolation is used to undertake 3D gamma adjustment of the display for intermediate brightness levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Guillermo Castano De La Serna
  • Patent number: 8059310
    Abstract: A CPU of a color printer performs gamma correction and a matrix operation M on an RGB color space image data derived by a matrix operation S. Using gamma correction value settings, the CPU performs gamma conversion of image data. Matrix operation M converts the RGB color space to an XYZ color space. When performing matrix operation M, the CPU refers to a PrintMatching tag and performs the matrix operation using a matrix (M) that corresponds to the indicated color space, in order to reflect the color space used for generation of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 8009180
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel; a correcting circuit configured to carry out gamma correction on input gradation data in response to correction data which specifies a shape of a gamma curve to generate output gradation data; and a driving circuit configured to drive the display panel in response to the output gradation data from the correcting circuit. The correcting circuit carries out approximation calculation for the gamma correction based on the input gradation data by using a correction calculation equation whose coefficients are determined based on the correction data, and the correction calculation equation is switched based on a value of the input gradation data and a value of the correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electornics Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 7995845
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining a shape of a signal. In particular, a kernel is applied to a portion of a signal to compute at least a first, first order derivative of the portion of the signal and a second, first order derivative of the portion of the signal in a single pass of the kernel. The shape of the portion of the signal is determined based on the first and second first order derivatives. In one example, the shape of the portion of the signal is determined based on the ratio of the first, first order derivative and the second, first order derivative. These techniques may be particularly effective for detecting edges within image signals. However, the techniques may be used to detect the shape of significant changes within any signal that represents a variable that is changing over time, space or other dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Babak Forutanpour
  • Patent number: 7839456
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit to obtain the frequency of each luminance level from the input luminance signal worth of one frame, a frequency conversion unit that logarithmically converts the frequency of each luminance level obtained and adds a preset offset value, a preparation unit that prepares a nonlinear correction processing table to cumulatively add the frequency-converted data and provide nonlinear correction processing for the input luminance signal, and a processor that provides nonlinear correction processing to the input luminance signal in accordance with the prepared nonlinear correction processing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ku Sato, Ritsuo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7839457
    Abstract: A display image correcting device including, retaining section configured to retain reference correction amount data for correcting nonuniformity as a predetermined factor of an image displayed on a basis of a video signal, the reference correction amount data representing an amount of correction at a predetermined horizontal and vertical position of the image, the amount of correction being obtained in correspondence with a video signal level as a reference, and correcting section configured to perform correction processing on the video signal in correspondence with a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the image, and a brightness direction, and performing the correction processing on a basis of three-dimensional correction amount data obtained by making two-dimensional correction amount data corresponding to a horizontal and vertical position, the two-dimensional correction amount data being obtained on a basis of the reference correction amount data, linearly proportional or nonlinearly propor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamagata, Yoshiki Shirochi, Toshinari Fuchigami, Akira Shirahama
  • Patent number: 7796196
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in the case where a non-linear correction processing is performed in a direction in which an amplitude level of a luminance signal is heightened, an amplitude level correction processing is performed to a color signal on the basis of a first coefficient read from a first table prepared in advance in correspondence to the case. In the case where a non-linear correction processing is performed in a direction in which the amplitude level of the luminance signal is lowered, an amplitude level correction processing is performed to the color signal on the basis of a second coefficient read from a second table prepared in advance in correspondence to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7773158
    Abstract: The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that outputs a first gain signal having predetermined gain characteristics with respect to the input image signal, and a correction portion that corrects the input image signal based on the first gain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Yamashita, Takeshi Ito, Yusuke Monobe, Tatsumi Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20100157161
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gamma correction apparatus comprises a histogram module configured to acquire histograms of upper and lower portions of one frame which are obtained by dividing the frame into two by a given horizontal scanning line, and a correcting module configured to make gamma correction on a current frame based on the histogram of the upper portion of the current frame and the histogram of the lower portion of a preceding frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventor: Kenichi Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20100103322
    Abstract: User interfaces are provided that allow for the display of a target element that may be used to adjust a gamma value of a display device. The target element includes three layers. A bottom static layer is alternating light and dark lines, which in one instance may be black and white lines of equal height. A gray static layer is solid gray, and overlays some or all of the bottom static layer. A progressive layer gradually changes from a fully transparent are to an opaque area, and overlays some or all of the gray static layer. Additionally, a manipulation area is provided, which may be a sliding mechanism. The user may adjust the gamma to a higher value when the fully transparent area appears lighter than the opaque area, and may adjust the gamma to a lower value when the fully transparent area appears darker than the opaque area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: MICHAEL BOURGOIN
  • Patent number: 7679686
    Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one gamma correction unit including a first gamma correction unit. In one embodiment, the first gamma correction unit includes at least one tap that is configured to allow the gamma function for the first gamma correction unit to be changed after the electronic device has been fabricated. In another embodiment, a process for using the electronic device operating the array during a first time period using a first gamma function for the first gamma correction unit. The process also includes changing the first gamma function to a second gamma function. The process further includes operating the array during a second time period using the second gamma function for the first gamma correction unit. A data processing system readable medium has code that includes instructions for carrying out the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Weixiao Zhang, Zhining Chen, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 7667777
    Abstract: A display device comprises a data input unit configured to convert an image signal to a color signal. The display device also comprises a brightness control unit operationally coupled to the data input unit, configured to extract a brightness level associated with the color signal, to subdivide the brightness level associated with the color signal, and to apply different voltages according to brightness level subdivisions to control brightness of the color signal. The display device also comprises a display unit configured to display the color signal according to controlled brightness. The brightness level may comprise gray levels of a ? curve. The color signal may comprise one of YUV or RGB signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 7659945
    Abstract: A color reproduction correcting system and method, and a video display device and method can reproduce original color by considering signal source and display device. Each signal source information and each display device information can be stored. The signal source and the display device, which are currently used (e.g., corrected), can be determined, for example, by a user selection. In one embodiment, the signal provided from a transmission side can be inverse gamma-corrected based on a corresponding signal source, and a colorimetric error of the inverse gamma-corrected signal is preferably corrected using corresponding signal source information and display device information. The corrected colorimetric error signal can be gamma-corrected based on a corresponding display device and then can be displayed on the corresponding display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Chul Kim, Kyu Ik Sohng, Eun Su Kim, Dae Won Kim, Dong Won Ryu, Jong Sun Park, Jong Keun Shin
  • Patent number: 7605871
    Abstract: Based on a first table in which a value of an input luminance signal is corresponded to a value of an output luminance signal acquired by performing nonlinear correction processing on the input luminance signal, there is created a second table in which a value of the input luminance signal is corresponded to a value of a color correction signal for performing amplitude control based on the nonlinear correction processing performed on the input luminance signal on an input color signal. The nonlinear correction processing is performed on the input luminance signal based on the first table and the amplitude control is performed on the input color signal based on the second table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7595808
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention may include a method updating a color look-up table (CLUT) for a next line of graphics before a current line of graphics has been completely read out of a graphics FIFO and assigned color pixel values. The method may include the step of formatting or arranging the CLUT into a plurality of sub-CLUTs. Each one of the sub-CLUTs may include pixel color values for each one of a plurality of pixels which may include a line of the graphics image data. Pixel color values may be read from within a first selected sub-CLUT, the first selected sub-CLUT comprising pixel color values for a first line of the graphics image data. The read pixel color value may be applied to the current first line of the graphics image data. While the read pixel color value is being applied to the current first line, pixel color values for a second selected sub-CLUT may be updated. The second selected sub-CLUT may include color pixel values for a second line of the graphics image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Guang-Ting Shih, Jay Li, Steven Tseng, Chengfuh Jeffrey Tang
  • Patent number: 7573532
    Abstract: An image processing device is comprised of a parameter storing unit (i) storing a plurality of inverse gamma correction parameters, color conversion parameters, gamma correction parameters and the like, and (ii) selecting one parameter from each of a plurality of such parameters according to an inputted image signal. Further, the image processing device includes an image signal processing unit performing image signal processes such as inverse gamma correction, color conversion, gamma correction and the like, on the basis of the parameters selected by the parameter storing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shimazaki, Kenjirou Tsuda, Kunihiko Sakoda
  • Publication number: 20090180031
    Abstract: A Gamma voltage driving circuit includes a setting circuit, a Gamma voltage generator, and a plurality of voltage output modules. The setting circuit respectively outputs a plurality of Gamma voltage setting signals at different time slots. The Gamma voltage generator respectively transforms the plurality of Gamma voltage setting signals into a plurality of corresponding voltage levels. The plurality of voltage output modules respectively provides voltage outputs at different time slots. Each voltage output module includes a plurality of voltage output circuits and a plurality of output control circuits. Each voltage output circuit includes a voltage selecting unit and an output buffering unit. The output control circuit controls the voltage output circuit to selectively output Gamma voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Wei-Shan Chiang, Ming-Huang Liu, Hsiu-Ping Lin, Meng-Yong Lin, Chen-Hsien Han, Wei-Yang Ou
  • Patent number: 7511770
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for processing video images aimed at compensating for the defects of display devices. According to the invention, the method is characterized in that it comprises the following steps: correction of a video signal by a specific gamma law associated with a first component from among said horizontal and vertical components of said video signal, first video processing acting on said first component of the corrected video signal, application, to the video signal processed, of an intermediate law effecting the transfer from a space which is linear with respect to the first component to a space which is linear with respect to the other of said components, called the second component, second video processing acting on the second component of the video signal emanating from the previous step, and correction of the video signal processed by a specific inverse gamma law associated with the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Laurent Blonde, Didier Doyen, Jonathan Kervec
  • Patent number: 7463295
    Abstract: The present invention includes a film or video image pickup signal recording/reproduction system having an image pickup apparatus outputting an image pickup signal, a recording apparatus recording the image pickup signal, a reproduction apparatus reproducing the recorded signal, a characteristic conversion apparatus switching the characteristic of the reproduced signal, and a display apparatus displaying the signal output from the characteristic conversion apparatus. The image pickup apparatus has two kinds of gamma curve characteristics. The gamma curve characteristic data is recorded by the recording apparatus and extracted by the reproduction apparatus. The gamma curve characteristic of a reproduction image is switched by the characteristic conversion apparatus depending on the data. The image is output on a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Asada, Akihiro Takeuchi, Akira Usui, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Takayuki Kimoto, Tamotsu Akeyama
  • Patent number: 7456873
    Abstract: Briefly, a camera according to the present invention includes a first signal processing system having a first gamma conversion processing unit for subjecting an output from an image pick-up device to gamma conversion processing and a luminance signal generating unit for generating a luminance-system signal based on an output from the first gamma conversion processing unit, and a second signal processing system having a color signal generating unit for generating a color-system signal based on an output which is the output from the image pick-up device and which is not subjected to the gamma conversion processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kohashi, Keiichi Mori
  • Patent number: 7447356
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to enhance a specific color without changing the hue of an original image. At least two different gray-level correction functions are provided for luminance signals input for three colors, R, G and B, and these functions are used to calculate correction coefficients for the individual colors. Then, the luminance signals input for the three colors are synthesized so that the weighting of the colors is changed in accordance with the input luminance signals, and a correction coefficient is calculated that is used in common. The input signals are then multiplied by the thus obtained correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Ohsawa, Kohei Inamura