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Image Analysis > Color Image Processing > Color Correction Color CorrectionColor Correction patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.10/25/07 - 20070248264 - Method and apparatus for color correction A graphical user interface for performing color correction and methods for implementing the color correction are disclosed. The graphical user interface allows a user to adjust the colorspace of the pixels in the image. In one embodiment, a color adjustment pad allows the user to push the pixels from a ... 10/18/07 - 20070242877 - Method for electronic color matching Disclosed is a method to define automatically, in a pre-selected color space, at least one user-provided sample color. The method includes defining at least one target color within the color space to yield a standard color data set and providing a physical color swatch corresponding to the defined target color. ... 08/30/07 - 20070201742 - Camera with red-eye correction function An electronic camera comprises an image generation unit that generates a plurality of images for red-eye detection based upon an image obtained by capturing an image of a subject with an image-capturing elements a setting unit that sets a specific mode among a plurality of modes related to electronic camera ... 08/16/07 - 20070189604 - Method and apparatus for camera shake compensation The invention provides a method for providing an image, the method includes: exposing a first group of pixels located at a first location to light, during an intermediate exposure period, to provide analog signals representative of the light; and transferring the analog signals to a second group of pixels located ... 07/19/07 - 20070165945 - Method and apparatus for white balancing digital images At least one illuminant white point estimate is determined in a color space having radially defined saturation based on a reference image. A chromatic adaptation correction vector (CACV) is determined based on the at least one illuminant white point estimate. Corrected pixels are obtained by applying the CACV (preferably in ... 07/05/07 - 20070154088 - Robust perceptual color identification Systems and methods of robust perceptual color identification are disclosed. The methods include a multilevel analysis for determining the robust perceptual color of an object based on observed colors. This multilevel analysis can include a pixel level, a frame level, and/or a sequence level. The determination may make use of ... 06/21/07 - 20070140558 - Enhanced color correction circuitry capable of employing negative rgb values Disclosed is a system for adjusting a plurality of component color signals for expanded color gamut displays. The disclosed system comprises an input for receiving the component color signals, a detection circuit (502) connected to the input and configured to detect at least one characteristics of the received component color ... 06/21/07 - 20070140557 - Data communication system, device, and method A data communication device that communicates with a storage device via a network includes an input unit for inputting user identification information, a log-in processing unit configured to enable a user to log in to access a storage area of the storage device associated with the user identification information, an ... 06/21/07 - 20070140556 - Red eye detection and correction A system suited to correction of red eyes in images includes a detection module which, for a plurality of pixels in a digital image, assigns a probability that a pixel is within a red eye. The probability has a value which may vary from a minimum value to maximum value. ... 06/21/07 - 20070140555 - Facial image processing system A facial image processing system for conducting an image process onto a photographed facial image, including a changing means which is at least one of a facial expression changing means to change the expression of a photographed facial image, a skin color tone changing means to change the color tone ... 06/14/07 - 20070133871 - Apparatus and methods for processing images In one embodiment, a system for processing an image receives color information including three variables representing a color of each of a plurality of pixels which constitute the image. The system derives a target characteristic value corresponding to a target pixel among the plurality of pixels based on the three ... 06/14/07 - 20070133870 - Method, apparatus, and system for improved color statistic pruning for automatic color balance Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the color pixels are pruned based on predetermined criteria for individual and combined color channel values. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain ... 06/14/07 - 20070133869 - Noise reduction for primary tones for image replication systems Systems and methods are disclosed that provide noise reduction for primary tones. In an embodiment, the systems and methods involve adjusting an input color toward a primary tone at the expense of replicating the input color according to its proper hue. The adjusted input color, when displayed by a display ... 06/14/07 - 20070133868 - Method and apparatus providing automatic color balancing for digital imaging systems Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the pixels are pruned. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain is calculated and applied to the image. As a result, color balance ... 05/31/07 - 20070122032 - Method of pre-processing an image to be printed in a hand-held camera A method is provided for pre-processing an image to be printed. The pre-processing is performed with a processor of a hand-held camera. The method involves the step of capturing an image with an image sensor of the camera including a Bayer color filter array (CFA). The captured image includes a ... 05/17/07 - 20070110305 - Digital image processing using face detection and skin tone information A technique for processing a digital image uses face detection to achieve one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that corresponds to a face image within the digital image. A skin tone is detected for the face image by determining one or more default ... 05/17/07 - 20070110304 - Projector color correcting method When a projection plane is not uniform due to colors and patterns on the projection plane and ambient environmental light, a reproduced image projected by a projector is made to appear in desired colors. A color correcting apparatus is used, comprising association unit (21), association storage memory 22, color information ... 05/10/07 - 20070104364 - Apparatus and method for correcting color reproduced by video device according to peripheral brightness An apparatus and method are provided for correcting a color reproduced by a video device according to peripheral brightness so that the visibility of the video device is guaranteed under peripheral conditions brighter than the video device. The apparatus for correcting a color reproduced by a video device according to ... 05/03/07 - 20070098261 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus for performing a white balance correction for RAW data obtained by an image capturing unit, includes a storage, operable to store a RAW file to which the RAW data and developed data obtained by performing a development processing to the RAW data are attached, and a ... 05/03/07 - 20070098260 - Detecting and correcting peteye Peteye is the appearance of an unnatural coloration (not necessarily red) of the pupils in an animal appearing in an image captured by a camera with flash illumination. Systems and methods of detecting and correcting peteye are described. In one aspect a classification map segmenting pixels in the input image ... 04/26/07 - 20070092135 - Method and device for colour calibrating a camera and/or a display device and for correcting colour defects from digital images The present invention relates to a method for colour calibrating a camera and/or a display device and for correcting colour defects from digital images, in which method a digital image formed with a camera and/or a display device is adjusted by correcting colour defects of the digital image of the ... 04/19/07 - 20070086652 - Apparatus, medium, and method with facial-image-compensation A facial-image-compensating device, medium, and method. The facial-image-compensating device may include a detection unit to detect an eye region in a facial image, an extraction unit to extract feature information of the detected eye region, and a compensation unit compensating the detected eye region according to the extracted feature information. ... 04/12/07 - 20070081721 - Apparatus, method, and program for taking an image, and apparatus, method, and program for processing an image An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to take an image of a subject; a histogram producing unit configured to produce a histogram of image data of the image; a tone correction unit configured to make a tone correction on the image data; a feature histogram table including a ... 03/29/07 - 20070071317 - Method and an apparatus for correcting images The method and the apparatus for correcting images extract one or more features including information about face region for each of photographed images, classify the photographed images into groups of particular photographed images having at least one common feature in accordance with at least one of the extracted one or ... 03/22/07 - 20070065007 - Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not performed for an image different from the image picture. An image processing condition is set in accordance ... 03/22/07 - 20070065006 - Color correction based on skin color Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing color correction. One product can receive a digital image that includes a region depicting human skin; obtain a skin color value based on a sample; receive a skin parameter value that is a tan or a blush value; use the skin ... 03/15/07 - 20070058861 - Projection system, information processing apparatus and method of generating modified-image data A projection system is provided which includes: an information processing apparatus that carries out image processing on an image of an image source in which color tone of each pixel is represented with a predetermined amount of information; a projector that projects an image based on an image data signal ... 03/15/07 - 20070058860 - Method and system for skin color estimation from an image Embodiments of the present invention recite a computer implemented method and system for estimating skin color from an image. In embodiments of the present invention, an image of a subject and of an imaged reference color set is accessed. In embodiments of the present invention, a controlled infrastructure is not ... 03/15/07 - 20070058859 - True color communication Embodiments of the present invention recite a system and method for conveying the true color of a subject. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises an image capture device, an imaged reference color set comprising at least one reference color, and a control reference color set comprising at least one ... 03/08/07 - 20070053586 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method When a user instructs photographing by operating an operating unit, an image captured by an image sensor is stored as a photographed image in a memory. When a mode for performing color fading correction is set, the CPU instructs an image processing device to extract, from the photographed image, an ... 02/08/07 - 20070031033 - Method and apparatus for converting skin color of image An image-processing method that converts a skin color of an image is provided, the method including detecting a face region of an image, when a face region is detected in the image, verifying whether the face region is a face by analyzing the characteristics of the face region, and when ... 02/08/07 - 20070031032 - Method and apparatus for performing conversion of skin color into preference color by applying face detection and skin area detection A method and apparatus for performing a conversion of a skin color of an input image into a preference color by applying face detection and skin color detection is disclosed. The method includes: detecting a face area from the input image; detecting a skin area from the input image; judging ... 02/08/07 - 20070031031 - Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device is provided for processing image data in order to display an image at an image display medium which is capable of displaying white, black, and colors at individual pixels, which are structured by pluralities of sub-pixels. The judgment component acquires the image data and judges whether ... 01/04/07 - 20070003136 - Color processing method and apparatus A color processing method includes setting a reference color as a reference for mapping, setting a distribution range of mapped points based on a color value of the set reference color, distributing a mapped point corresponding to an input color into the distribution range, and mapping the input color into ... 12/14/06 - 20060280363 - Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and storage medium An embedded system of a digital camera or printer has limited available memory resources. Under such environment, devices are required to detect a red-eye region from a high-resolution image. To solve this problem, an input image is divided into band images each including a predetermined number of lines, so that ... 12/14/06 - 20060280362 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit configured to calculate an evaluation amount of poor color tone for every pixel in an image and an extracting unit configured to extract a candidate pixel having the poor color tone on the basis of the evaluation amount. The evaluation amount is ... 12/14/06 - 20060280361 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method,computer program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus configured to detect an image region indicating a poor color tone of eyes from candidate regions includes: a first determination unit configured to perform a determination relating to an evaluation amount with respect to the poor color tone based on a predetermined color component in a ... 12/07/06 - 20060274936 - Method, apparatus, and program for image correction An image correction method comprising the steps of: specifying a region including the face of one person in an image of people displayed in a screen of image display means in response to an input from an operator; extracting a correction target region including at least the face of the ... 11/30/06 - 20060269128 - Image correction method and apparatus An image correction method and apparatus are provided. The image correction apparatus includes an identification unit identifying a portion of an eye region where color is altered from an image; a verification unit extracting attribute information from the identified eye region and verifying the identified eye region; a determination unit ... 11/23/06 - 20060262974 - Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus comprises an optical magnification changing mechanism which optically changes a magnification of an image, and an electronic magnification changing mechanism which reduces or expands a magnification with respect to image data by signal processing, the imaging apparatus providing a magnification-changed image according to a predetermined magnification based ... 11/16/06 - 20060257022 - Color balance adjustment conducted considering color reproducibility of specific color Color balance correction value is calculated based on an average pixel value of specific color pixels if an average hue of high luminance pixels is not within a predetermined range in the vicinity of a specific chromatic color (for example, skin color). This calculation may additionally use a specific color ... 11/09/06 - 20060251323 - Detection, correction fading and processing in hue, saturation and luminance directions A method, system and apparatus for color management that directly acts upon the hue, saturation, and luminance value of a pixel instead of its U and V value. Additionally, instead of dividing the color space into uniform areas, the color space is divided into multiple user-defined regions. The detection of ... 11/09/06 - 20060251322 - Color fringe desaturation for electronic imagers A method for correcting colored fringe artifacts in a region of an image around saturated pixels captured by an electronic imager associated with a color filter array, includes providing a threshold map of the image based on thresholding one or more color channels with a common or separate threshold value ... 11/02/06 - 20060245646 - Interpolation processing apparatus and recording medium having interpolation processing program recorded therein A first interpolation processing apparatus that engages in processing on image data which are provided in a calorimetric system constituted of first˜nth (n≧2) color components and include color information corresponding to a single color component provided at each pixel to determine an interpolation value equivalent to color information corresponding to ... 11/02/06 - 20060245645 - Fast image and video data propagation and blending using intrinsic distances Images are colorized, recolorized, or otherwise manipulated by adding scibbles of a blending medium (such as chrominance) to a measurement medium (such as luminance) of the image. The blending medium propagates from the scribbles according to an intrinsic or geodesic distance that is a function of the measurement medium. Intrinsic ... 11/02/06 - 20060245644 - Method and apparatus for digital-image red-eye correction that facilitates undo operation A device that performs automatic red-eye correction on a digital image saves the original image data and a location indicator from each portion of the digital image on which red-eye correction is performed to facilitate the subsequent undoing of red-eye correction. Red-eye correction may be undone at any time after ... 11/02/06 - 20060245643 - Method and apparatus for incorporating iris color in red-eye correction When using a strobe in capturing a digital image is determined to be imminent, a pre-capture image may be saved from which iris-color information can be derived. The iris-color information derived from the pre-capture image may be used to improve red-eye correction of the captured digital image. ... 10/26/06 - 20060239549 - Method and apparatus for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image A method, and digital capture apparatus for use therewith, is described for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image, where the digital image is composed of a plurality of color channels. The method includes capturing an image comprising the color channels, where one of the color channels ... 10/12/06 - 20060228023 - Image processing apparatus using alpha plane and method thereof In an image processing apparatus and method, image data includes both color and alpha components. During processing, only the color component of the image data is stored in a memory. Display image data are then generated in response to the color component data retrieved from the memory and the alpha ... 10/12/06 - 20060228022 - Method and apparatus of false color suppression A false-color suppression method for correcting a pixel value of a target position of an output frame corresponding to a target field is disclosed. The false-color suppression method includes determining whether the target position has motion; determining whether image corresponding to the target position meets a predetermined condition; and if ... 10/05/06 - 20060222242 - Color balance correction based on color cast attribute An image processing apparatus executes color balance correction of an image composed of multiple pixels. The image processing apparatus comprises a representative value calculation unit and a correction processor. The representative value calculation unit calculates, based on signal values of the pixels included in a skin tone area that includes ... 09/28/06 - 20060215908 - Image pickup apparatus and image processing method Application of a conventional color process to a LOG sensor is made possible. An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor having two or more different photoelectric conversion characteristics and an image processing section for processing an imaging signal from the solid-state image sensor, and the image processing section ... 09/14/06 - 20060204089 - Method and apparatus for compensating for dot gain in stochastic printing A method for compensating for dot gain in printing with stochastic screens comprises obtaining continuous tone CMYK files and screening the files at a resolution that is lower than the resolution of an output device that will be used to print the files. The lower resolution stochastically screened files are ... 09/14/06 - 20060204088 - Method and apparatus of image processing An image processing method for adjusting color data of an image is disclosed. The color space of the image is divided into a plurality of color grids and the method includes: providing a first table recorded a plurality of parameters corresponding to the plurality of color grids, respectively; receiving color ... 09/14/06 - 20060204087 - Method of color correction A color defined by a chroma point and by a luma value is adjusted by defining a reference chroma point and shifting the chroma point towards the reference point if the chroma point is within a predefined tilted rectangle in the chroma coordinate plane that encloses the reference point; or ... 08/24/06 - 20060188157 - Processing apparatus and processing method of color image information An image processing apparatus for color image information inputs a combination of component values of reference colors that constitute a processing color, and converts the combination of component values into a lightness value, saturation value, and hue value. The first correction factor, the second correction factor, and the third correction ... 08/24/06 - 20060188156 - Color conversion apparatus and method for selectively adjusting input image colors A color conversion method of selectively adjusting input colors, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method comprising converting an input color signal to a color signal in a color space that is based on a luminance component and a chromaticity component; determining whether the input color signal of ... 08/24/06 - 20060188155 - Color signal processing method The invention alleviates a load in color signal processing for a color component signal containing an offset signal component owing to infrared light. In a case where the respective color component signals <R>, <G> and <B> are substantially the same as <IR>, each of the color component signals is almost ... 08/24/06 - 20060188154 - Digital video signal processing apparatus and method for compensating a chrominance signal A digital video signal processing apparatus and method for compensating a chrominance (C) signal includes receiving the C signal separated from an input video signal and compensating the C signal in at least one dimension thereof to generate a compensated C signal. A comparator may determine whether a portion of ... 08/24/06 - 20060188153 - System and method for local saturation adjustment In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for local saturation adjustment are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a hue, saturation, and brightness value of each pixel of an image, determining whether the hue and saturation of each pixel fall within a ... 08/24/06 - 20060188152 - Method for defining chromaticity regions according to luminance levels and adjusting chromaticity of images accordingly Image processing includes defining chromaticity regions according to different luminance levels, and when the luminance of a pixel corresponds to one of the luminance levels, and a chromaticity vector of the pixel is within a chromaticity region corresponding to the luminance level, adjusting the chromaticity vector of the pixel. ... 08/17/06 - 20060182338 - Method and device for color balance correction, and computer product A color balance correction device includes a histogram generating unit that generates histograms of a gradation level of pixels for R, G, and B; a decreasing-tendency-area identifying unit that identifies a range that the frequency tends to decrease first from a highlight side of each of histograms generated by the ... 08/17/06 - 20060182337 - Method and apparatus for improving the quality of reconstructed information Image processing apparatus and methods according to the present invention are described in which data for each color channel are separately processed, on a pixel by pixel basis, such that the data associated with the primary color channel is filtered less than the crosstalk information associated with a non-primary color ... 08/10/06 - 20060177130 - Misregister amount detection method and apparatus In a misregister amount detection method, printed register marks of colors are sensed, and the inverted R, G, and B image data of R, G, and B image data respectively containing R, G, and B as red, green, and blue color components of the register marks are extracted. The minimum ... 08/10/06 - 20060177129 - Color signal processing method When respective color filters in respective light receiving elements of RGB allow transmission of infrared light, respective signal components due to infrared light (IR components) overlap color signals. To avoid disruption of color balance due to this, first, the IR components Ir, Ig, Ib contained in respective color signals of ... 08/10/06 - 20060177128 - White balance with zone weighting An image processing system includes a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The sensor is configured to capture data representative of a scene illuminated by an actual illuminant and the processor is configured to receive and process the captured data. The memory is configured to store chromaticity data associated with ... 08/10/06 - 20060177127 - Spectral normalization using illuminant exposure estimation After image capture, scene parameters are analyzed, e.g. lux, flicker, or world estimation. A best guess illuminant for the scene parameters is determined. At this point, the white balancing coefficients corresponding to that illuminant may be applied. ... 07/27/06 - 20060165281 - Image processing apparatus and print control apparatus In the conventional technologies, it was difficult to automatically improve the quality of an image to an appropriate level that was unable to be appropriately improved during the process of producing image data in an image capturing device. According to the present invention, in order to correct the quality of ... 07/27/06 - 20060165280 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and program The conventional correction method had a problem that when the color correction or color matching was made between two images, it was difficult to match the color of two images. An image processing method of the present invention comprises a detection step of detecting a correspondence between one color of ... 07/20/06 - 20060159338 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medium on which image processing program is recorded Featured are an image processing apparatus, method and a medium including an image processing program. The image processing apparatus includes an image inputting means for inputting an image, a character/line drawing region extracting means for extracting a character/line drawing region from the input image, a pseudo-density region extracting means for ... 07/20/06 - 20060159337 - Method for deriving consistent, repeatable color measurements from data provided by a digital imaging device A method for obtaining a target color measurement using an electronic image capturing device comprising the steps of: (1) determining one or more of a field correction array, level correction vectors, a color correction matrix, and a calibration correction and; (2) adjusting a target color measurement based upon one or ... 07/20/06 - 20060159336 - Auto white balance apparatus and white balance adjusting method To provide an auto white balance apparatus and a white balance adjusting method capable of performing more stable white balance adjustment. For every block, a characteristic pixel determination circuit 106 determines a characteristic pixel from among a pixel group in a block and a light-source reflection determination circuit 108 determines ... 07/20/06 - 20060159335 - Photo dazzle color temperature correction A method for calculating and adjusting the color temperature of an image includes calculating an average color temperature and adjusting the chromaticity of each pixel of the image according to the average color temperature. The adjustment may be linear across all pixels or scaled according to the chromaticity of each ... 07/13/06 - 20060153444 - Automatic white balancing of colour gain values A method and an related apparatus for performing a white balance operation on an image with pixels, wherein global colour gain values common for substantially all pixels of the image are first determined. Then local colour gain values for individual pixels of the image are determined based on analyses of ... 06/08/06 - 20060120599 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide a plurality of characteristics indicative of image quality. The process then determines if one or more corrective processes can be beneficially applied to the first acquired image ... 06/08/06 - 20060120598 - Color correction device and color correction method A color correction apparatus is provided including a color correction means 1 for making a color correction to an input image signal 101, and a color gamut compression means 2 for performing color gamut compression on the color-corrected input image signal based on color reproduction characteristics data 103 describing color ... 06/01/06 - 20060115149 - Method and apparatus for finding and correcting single-pixel noise defects in a two-dimensional camera pixel field and a camera provided with such an apparatus A method for finding and correcting single-pixel noise defects in a two-dimensional camera pixel field assigns to such pixel defect an interpolation multi-pixel environment of the same color as the pixel to be corrected for therefrom deriving an interpolated substitute pixel value. In particular, the method executes the following steps: ... 05/18/06 - 20060104509 - Apparatus for compensating for gray component of image signal Provided is an apparatus for compensating for a gray component of an input image signal. The apparatus detects a pattern of the input image signal and compensates for the gray component by substituting each channel value of the input image signal by a median value if it is determined that ... 05/18/06 - 20060104508 - High dynamic range images from low dynamic range images A method for displaying an image includes receiving an image having a first luminance dynamic range and modifying the image to a second luminance dynamic range free from being based upon other images, where the second dynamic range is greater than the first dynamic range. The modified image is displayed ... 05/18/06 - 20060104507 - Correction of image color levels Provided is a computer system and method for processing images. A method for applying a color bias correction for an image includes but is not limited to, separating high frequency data from low frequency data of the image; using the high frequency data to determine one or more local minima; ... 05/11/06 - 20060098869 - Signal correcting method A signal correcting method includes: obtaining multiple types of signals at each of a plurality of points; extracting a point with signal values corresponding to the multiple types of signals, which have a predetermined relationship to signal values of the multiple types of signals at a target point; and correcting ... 05/11/06 - 20060098868 - Systems and methods for correcting green disparity in imager sensors Embodiments of the present invention relate in general to systems and methods for dynamically correcting color cross-talk and related color distortion in an image sensor. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to correcting pixel outputs from a pixel array in an ... 05/11/06 - 20060098867 - Detecting irises and pupils in images of humans In an eye detection method, a plurality of candidate eyes are located within a digital image. Pixels of interest having a predetermined characteristic and a predetermined association to respective eyes are found. Pixels of interest associated with each eye are grouped. Parametric boundaries are fit on each of the groups ... 05/04/06 - 20060093213 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image based on image quality pre and post filtering A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide characteristics indicative of image quality. The process then determines if one or more corrective processes can be beneficially applied to the first acquired image according to the ... 05/04/06 - 20060093212 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide characteristics indicative of image quality. The process then determines if one or more corrective processes can be beneficially applied to the first acquired image according to the ... 04/27/06 - 20060088211 - Image processing apparatus and method A surrounding pixel reference unit reads out and stores image data having a predetermined size from a line buffer. A color judgment unit detects the color of the image (reference image) stored in the surrounding pixel reference unit. A parameter determination unit determines parameters used in an individual noise removal ... 04/27/06 - 20060088210 - Video image quality Video image quality may be improved by correcting exposure levels and/or enhancing contrast amounts on each frame. One or more of the following phases may be implemented: skin-color model building, face detecting, exposure level correcting, and contrast enhancing. In a described implementation, each pixel of an image frame is re-exposed ... 04/27/06 - 20060088209 - Video image quality Video image quality may be improved by correcting exposure levels and/or enhancing contrast amounts on each frame. One or more of the following phases may be implemented: skin-color model building, face detecting, exposure level correcting, and contrast enhancing. In a described implementation, a Gaussian skin-color model is built for each ... 04/13/06 - 20060078198 - Apparatus and method for imager device color calibration using spectral light source A method and apparatus for color calibrating an imager device is disclosed. The imager device is subjected to a plurality of light sources. Color channel responses are obtained from the imager device and the color calibrating coefficients are determined. ... 04/06/06 - 20060072815 - Enhanced automatic red eye removal A method for removing red eyes includes (1) identifying potential red eye pixels in a low resolution image (hereafter “LR red eye pixels”), (2) grouping contiguous LR red eye pixels into red eye regions (herafter “LR red eye regions”); determining working areas around the LR red eye regions (hereafter “LR ... 03/16/06 - 20060056687 - Hierarchically locating a feature in a digital image Methods, systems, and computer program products used to locate a feature in a digital image. A first search is performed in the image to find candidate faces, where each candidate face found is a group of pixels in the image that satisfies a first pattern-matching criterion. A second search is ... 03/02/06 - 20060045333 - Method and apparatus for dynamically detecting pixel values A pixel value array is provided, which includes an examined pixel value. Several reference pixel values are each subtracted from the examined pixel value to obtain several differences. The sampling pixels of these reference pixel values are spatially adjacent to the sampling pixel of the examined pixel value. The reference ... 02/16/06 - 20060034509 - Color remapping A method and apparatus for gamut color remapping and compensation is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving input image data. The method further includes determining relationships between the input image data and known correction values. The method also includes interpolating corrections to the ... 02/02/06 - 20060023943 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method and an image processing apparatus is provided wherein, regardless of the color of a character, color shift that occurs at a contour portion is corrected, and even with a background other than white, a clear image can be output for which color shift at the contour ... 02/02/06 - 20060023942 - Methods and systems for correcting color distortions A color distortion correction is obtained by calculating a color shift of a first color channel with respect to a second color channel along each pixel column of a scanned calibration image. The color shift defines a correction for the color distortions and the correction is then applied to subsequent ... 01/26/06 - 20060018536 - Embedded gamut mapping algorithm A color management module which accepts input color image data and transforms the input color image data into output color image data based on information contained in at least one color profile, wherein the color management module includes an interface to an externally provided, pluggable gamut mapping module which is ... 01/26/06 - 20060018535 - Color duplication method and apparatus Method and apparatus for duplicating a target color and changing a color of an object to match the target color. A first color sensor measures the target color. A color projection mechanism selectively changes the color of the object. A color matching mechanism is coupled to the first color sensor ... 01/19/06 - 20060013479 - Restoration of color components in an image model This invention relates to a method for improving image quality of a digital image captured with an imaging module comprising at least imaging optics and an image sensor, where the image is formed through the imaging optics, the image consisting of at least one colour component. In the method degradation ... 01/19/06 - 20060013478 - Image processing device An image processing apparatus of correcting the color of a specific range of a pixel signal for each pixel included in an input image signal, comprises an intensity determination means of generating a correction intensity that is small on the periphery of the color region of the specific range on ... 01/12/06 - 20060008142 - Method and apparatus for automated image correction for digital image acquisition Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically correcting colors of a digital image. The methods and apparatus create a first digital image of a target test sheet under a predetermined lighting condition, the target test sheet including a plurality of regions, each region including a known color value, the first ... 01/12/06 - 20060008141 - Radiometric calibration from a single image Radiometric calibration of an image capture device (e.g., a digital camera) using a single image is described. The single image may be a color image or a grayscale image. The calibration identifies and analyzes edge pixels of the image that correspond to an edge between two colors or grayscale levels ... 12/29/05 - 20050286763 - Image processing A method of digitally processing data for use in representing an image, comprising scaling edge data relating to edges in at least one colour-adjusted component of the image using unadjusted data relating to a colour-unadjusted component of the image, and a device operable in accordance with the method. ... 12/15/05 - 20050276475 - Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program An image processing device generates an output image as a color image wherein each pixel has color information, using a first image as a sparsely color sampled image wherein each pixel has monochromatic information obtained by an image sensor which has multiple pixels each photoelectrically converting light of a plurality ... 12/15/05 - 20050276474 - Gamut mapping apparatus using vector stretching and method thereof A gamut mapping apparatus and method using a vector stretching that increases lightness and chroma depending on the shape of a gamut under a consistent chromaticity of a color signal of a source device. The gamut mapping apparatus may include a first color space conversion block to convert an input ... 12/15/05 - 20050276473 - Apparatus and method of detecting color gamut in color device and calculating color space inverse transform function An apparatus and a method of detecting a color gamut of a color device and a method of calculating a color space inverse transform function using the same. The color gamut detecting apparatus includes a color space converter to convert a color space of an input color signal to a ... 12/01/05 - 20050265598 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, shape diagnostic apparatus, shape diagnostic method and program An image processing apparatus for correcting an image of a subject, includes: a first illuminated image acquisition unit for acquiring the first reference member image that is an image a reference member having a plurality of normal directions taken under the first illumination condition; the second illuminated image acquisition unit ... 11/10/05 - 20050249408 - Color appearance space to cmyk mapping The present invention relates to a color management method for the conversion of internal color appearance space color values to CMYK device value, by interpolating CMY values from a plurality of CMY to color appearance space lookup tables, wherein each CMY table is associated with a specific value of K. ... 11/10/05 - 20050249407 - Color characterization using color value clipping A method for correcting a color value generated by a forward model for a color input device. A color value generated by the forward model is mapped into a color space. The color value is clipped to a locus of a visual gamut in the color space if the color ... 11/03/05 - 20050244055 - Apparatus and method of transforming three color signals into multi-color signal A method of and apparatus for transforming a three color signal into a multi-color signal. A method of transforming a color signal having three color components into a color signal having first through n-th color components, includes: producing a lookup table having signal values of (n-3) of n color components ... 11/03/05 - 20050244054 - Image correction systems and methods thereof Systems and methods thereof for image correction are provided in an exemplary method, an image is received and pixels therein are read. A frequency value is calculated for each of the color scale values, representing how many pixels correspond to each of the color scale values. A color-scale threshold is ... 10/27/05 - 20050238230 - Image processing method and apparatus for white eye correction A technique for correcting white eye in image data is disclosed. In this technique, a white eye candidate pixel is detected from an eye extracted from the image data based on a predetermined detection condition. The white eye candidate pixel as a white eye pixel based on a predetermined determination ... 10/20/05 - 20050232482 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program The image for the face candidate region is obtained, extraction conditions are determined for extracting the eye and the mouth pixels from the candidate region based on the size of the face candidate region. The eye pixels and the mouth pixels are then extracted from the face candidate region based ... 10/20/05 - 20050232481 - Automatic red eye removal wherein f is the weighted red value, r is the red color value, g is the green color value, b is the blue color value, c1 is a first weight given to the red color value, c2 is a second weigh given to the green color value, c3 is a ... // - 3 - ... // - 2 - ... // - 1 - ... 10/06/05 - 20050220340 - Image-processing apparatus and image-processing method An image-processing apparatus for processing the image data input from an image-handling device and then outputting the image data to another image-handling device. The apparatus comprises a black-adaptation correction device. The black-adaptation correction device corrects the image data in consideration of the fact that adaptation to black varies from person ... 09/29/05 - 20050213813 - Radiometric calibration from a single image A radiometric calibration system finds an inverse response function of a camera from a single digital image of a scene in which the actual colors of the scene are not known a priori. The system analyzes pixels of the image that correspond to an “edge” between two colors of the ... 09/22/05 - 20050207644 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program product therefor An image processing apparatus includes: a reference object discriminating unit that discriminates a reference object from a digital image that is taken by capturing an object together with the reference object; a size information extracting unit that extracts size information of the reference object in the digital image; a size ... 09/15/05 - 20050201617 - Color temperature conversion method, medium, and apparatus converting a color temperature of a pixel based on brightness A color conversion method, medium, and apparatus, converting a color temperature of an image to a user-set color temperature, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, based on the brightness of each pixel of the image. The color temperature conversion method may include determining a first information associated with a conversion range, determining ... 09/15/05 - 20050201616 - High-quality gradient-corrected linear interpolation for demosaicing of color images A gradient-corrected linear interpolation method and system for the demosaicing of color images. The method and system compute an interpolation using some a current technique (preferably a bilinear interpolation technique to reduce computational complexity), compute a correction term (such as a gradient of a desired color at a given pixel), ... 09/15/05 - 20050201615 - Method for color correction A method for color correction is provided. In this method, a plurality of groups of gray levels and luminance of light source of display device are respectively selected by color measurement system. The selected data of each color light are respectively calculated to obtain fitting functions which can fit the ... 09/08/05 - 20050196040 - Image reproducing method, image reproducing apparatus and image reproducing program A reference image and a target image for image inspection are displayed side by side in a monitor. The reference image is taken in approximately identical shooting condition to the target image for the image inspection, and corrected with a reference correction parameter. The reference correction parameter and the reference ... 09/01/05 - 20050190967 - Method and apparatus for converting color spaces and multi-color display apparatus using the color space conversion apparatus A method and apparatus for converting an m-dimensional color space comprising first through m-th input color components to an n-dimensional color space comprising first through n-th output color components. specified A method of converting an m-dimensional color space having first through m-th input color components into an n-dimensional color space ... 08/25/05 - 20050185840 - Color conversion device and color conversion mehtod Responsive to image data of three colors, six hue data are obtained, and then first comparison-result data and second-order terms each relating to one of the six hues, and second comparison-result data each relating to one of the six inter-hue areas are obtained. Matrix calculation is performed on the first ... 08/25/05 - 20050185839 - Image processing apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus for correcting a hue and a saturation in an input video signal of a moving picture in real time is disclosed wherein the image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting the hue and the saturation from the input video signal, a determining unit for ... 08/04/05 - 20050169525 - Method and apparatus to generate image forming data using color profile matching image processing application A method and apparatus to generate image forming data using a color profile matching an image processing application. The method includes generating a color profile matching table listing color profiles matching corresponding ones of image processing applications, in response to a request to form an image by a specific image ... 08/04/05 - 20050169524 - Image processing device, image display device, image processing method, and image processing program Aspects of the invention relate to a method of processing images capable of performing natural saturation enhancement having a balance between color components with a small amount of calculation is provided. The image processing device may be arranged in an image display device or may be a device for providing ... 08/04/05 - 20050169523 - Image processing with information associated with image data Image processing control information GI/shooting information SI associated with the obtained image data GD is obtained by an image processing control information GI/shooting information SI obtaining module M2. The obtained image processing control information GI/shooting information SI is modified in accordance with the image output apparatus by an image processing ... 08/04/05 - 20050169522 - Color mapping circuit A system and method that provide full color mapping of video images with minimal distortion to the image. A two-dimensional look up table may be used to map a certain number of colors, and for colors that are not represented by entries in the table, the four closest entries to ... 08/04/05 - 20050169521 - Processing of mosaic digital images A full color output image is estimated from a mosaic digital image, the output image is transformed from an original color space into a luminance/chrominance color space, chrominance components of the transformed output image are smoothed, the image is re-transformed back to its original color space, and corresponding pixels in ... 07/28/05 - 20050163370 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program An image processing apparatus includes an image forward-transform section for applying an image forward-transform based on a color appearance model to an inputted scene referred raw datum; an image processing section for applying a tone and/or color correction using a correction parameter determined based on the scene referred raw datum ... 07/28/05 - 20050163369 - Image color correcting device, image color correcting method, and image color correcting program The image color correcting device 1 conducts color correction for an input image 2 and supplying an output image to an image display section 3 and includes object selecting means 10 for selecting an object item or an object color as a color correction object from the output image of ... 07/21/05 - 20050157922 - Apparatus and method for color matching in print A method determines a type of color matching for a document in a system comprising a host computer for determining a document to be printed and a type of color matching for the document, and a printing apparatus for printing the document by the selected color matching. For this, whether ... 07/07/05 - 20050147295 - Color transformation method and apparatus A color transformation method of transforming a first color component set representing a first color space to a second color component set representing a second color space is provided. The method comprising: reading the first color component set from a predetermined memory; transforming the read first color component set to ... 07/07/05 - 20050147294 - Enhanced color correction circuitry capable of employing negative rgb values Disclosed is a system for adjusting a plurality of component color signals for expanded color gamut displays. The disclosed system comprises an input for receiving the component color signals, a detection circuit (502) connected to the input and configured to detect at least one characteristic of the received component color ... 06/16/05 - 20050129309 - Error diffusion method and apparatus using area ratio in cmykrgbw cube An error diffusion method and apparatus using an area ratio of candidate colors in a CMYKRGBW cube, wherein the candidate colors are determined in response to an input value, and the CMYKRGBW cube is converted into a color space consisting of only four colors so that the candidate colors can ... 06/09/05 - 20050123194 - Method of embedding color information in printed documents using watermarking A method for enhancing color fidelity in multi-reproduction, includes scanning an image to be reproduced, wherein the image contains an invisible digital watermark including color information; decoding the color information contained in the watermark; comparing the decoded color information with the scanned image; generating a correction table from the differences ... 06/09/05 - 20050123193 - Image adjustment with tone rendering curve The invention relates to a method for rendering images on display devices with improved quality. To allow adjusting luminance values of pixels depending on image information, it is proposed that contents of said image are analysed at least partially, a tone rendering curve based on said analysed image content is ... 06/02/05 - 20050117798 - Method and apparatus for modifying a portion of an image frame in accordance with colorimetric parameters A method for modifying at least one calorimetric attribute of a predetermined region (22,24) of a motion picture frame (20) in which metadata associated with the motion picture frame (20) is provided, the metadata defining the predetermined region (22,24) of the frame (20). A colorimetric transform is applied to pixels ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |