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7620239 Color determination device and color determination method  
A color determination device sections a hue plane, in which unit data constituting determining image data is mapped, into partial regions by a color determination boundary, and carries out a color...
7620238 Virtual reality color sampler  
A virtual reality color sampler for displaying prospective colors for an item has an alphanumeric keyboard connected to a color card scanner. A virtual reality goggle is connected to the...
7619792 Image forming apparatus, image forming method  
An image forming apparatus has a calibration mode in which a calibration image is formed on a print medium to correct image forming conditions. The image forming apparatus detects print medium...
7619773 Color management system using measured device data  
Managing color data to transform source color image data from a source device into destination color image data for rendering by a destination device, including accessing a source color data file...
7619637 Systems and methods for improved gamut mapping from one image data set to another  
The present application discloses methods and system for converting input image data in a first color space into image data in a second color space format. Several embodiments disclose improved...
7616812 Signal processing apparatus and method, and program  
Signals are provided which allow colors in a wider color range than predetermined standards, which can be handled by apparatus according to such predetermined standards. A primary color converter...
7616811 Method and system in a digital image processing chain for adjusting a colour balance, corresponding equipment, and software means for implementing the method  
A method in a digital image processing chain adjusts for a colour balance. In the method, the subject is imaged by pixels to form value-sets of the colour components, component-specific histograms...
7616810 Systems and methods for illuminant estimation  
Aspects of the present invention comprise systems and methods for image illuminant estimation. Some aspects relate to computing an image histogram comprising data relating the frequency of image...
7616809 Image processing device  
Color-difference signals that become unnecessary after rotation are deleted from a second pixel while saving color-difference signals that become necessary after rotation in the second pixel, to...
7616808 Photograph image-processing method and device thereof  
A photograph image-processing method comprises the steps of entering a film image for reading a film image by an image pickup device and generating color image data, generating concentration...
7616361 Color processing apparatus and its method  
In gamut mapping, when saturation is linearly compressed, a saturation drop of a low-saturation part is considerable. Linear compression based on zone division produces discontinuous points....
7616345 Method for transforming a digital image from a first to a second colorant space  
A method for obtaining a first representation of a digital image by means of a first output device and a second representation of the digital image by means of a second output device, wherein the...
7616344 Image processing apparatus and method for printing and plate making, and recording medium having image processing program recorded therein for printing and plate making  
For page data containing shadow-casting objects, trap graphics are generated according to the following procedure. First, an ID drawing process is performed for all objects within a page, and based...
7616234 Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, storage medium, and program  
In an image processing apparatus which can always provide an excellent processed image, an analysis unit analyzes condition information representing a condition at a time when an image is obtained...
7616215 System and method for applying color management on captured images  
A system and method for image acquisition enables selective automated application of color management to color image data generated by an image-capturing device by the device driver for the device....
7613339 Method and an apparatus for detecting the base concentration of a photographic film  
A method of detecting the base concentration of a film comprises the steps of generating a concentration histogram from the film image in each of the RGB color components, shifting and stretching...
7613338 Image processing method and apparatus, program, and storage medium  
A method and apparatus obtains an image of a proper brightness in various scenes in which it is difficult to appropriately determine the brightness of an image. The apparatus includes a unit which...
7613335 Methods and devices useful for analyzing color medical images  
In one embodiment, a method that includes comparing a subject color medical image to normal color medical image data; and identifying abnormal pixels from the subject color medical image. Another...
7613332 Particular-region detection method and apparatus, and program therefor  
In the invention, a particular-region such as red-eye region of a photographed image is detected, the image including a person as an object. At first a particular region candidate satisfying...
7612927 Image processing device  
An image data generator generates first image data consisting of a plurality of color data and being an image information for each pixel. An image processor including a color converter applies...
7612910 Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information output control method, storage medium and program  
An information processing apparatus accurately and automatically determines whether a page to be printed out or rendered is a color page or a monochrome page. In order to efficiently output the...
7612803 Digital camera with reduced image buffer memory and minimal processing for recycling through a service center  
A digital camera system in which capture, processing and storage functions are partitioned differently than in existing systems. A hand-held digital camera is used with a workstation that may exist...
7609909 Image density test chart and method for determining image density level  
An image density discrimination chart is used to discriminate a density of a test image printed by an image forming apparatus. The chart includes an exposing portion for exposing the test image...
7609892 Image processing method, image processing system, and image processing program  
The process captures a plurality of images under a light source whose luminance varies over time, such as a fluorescent lamp, under such an imaging condition that a plurality of images that are...
7609880 Display apparatus and its control method  
An image display apparatus includes a display device, and a signal processing circuit. In at least one case where an image is displayed by a first image signal which designates a first image having...
7609879 Image processing device  
An image-processing device includes a determining unit that determines a likelihood degree of an input image being a halftone image and a plurality of spatial filters having different...
7609878 Method for analyzing the color deviations in images using an image sensor  
Color deviations of images are analyzed using a sensor. The received image sensor signal is analyzed pixel by pixel. An image sensor signal is produced for each color channel from a plurality of...
7609413 Color management for limited gamut devices  
Methods and apparatuses for performing color manipulation using virtual gamuts. In one aspect of the invention, a method to perform color manipulation on a digital processing system includes:...
7609300 Method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation  
A method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation, which performs an interpolation on a Bayer image obtained by an image sensor to restore red, green and blue colors of...
7609230 Display method and system using transmissive and emissive components  
A method and system is provided for creating a display and generating images. Creating the display includes receiving a transmissive display component over an emissive display component and...
7606438 Image signal processor and image signal processing method  
To obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect even when dynamic γ correction processing is executed for an edge-enhanced image signal, and to obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect for...
7606416 Landmark detection apparatus and method for intelligent system  
A landmark detection apparatus and method, the apparatus including a first detection unit that generates N first sample blocks in a first sampling region using a first weighted sampling method...
7606414 Fusion of color space data to extract dominant color  
A system and a method to extract dominant color information using fusion of color space data. The color space data may include Red, Green, Blue (RGB) color space data and may include Hue (H),...
7606412 Method and apparatus for generating user preference data regarding color characteristic of image and method and apparatus for converting image color preference using the method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for generating user preference data regarding the color characteristic of an image is provided where a preference image comprises an image converted to have a color...
7605960 Image processing apparatus and gradation reproduction method  
The purpose of this invention is to reproduce gradations of dark parts between devices with different ranges of reproducible brightness. The range of reproducible brightness by the printer is a...
7605959 System and method of color image transformation  
A method comprises receiving a set of color transfer curves, receiving a digital image file having a plurality of pixel stacks, for each pixel stack in the digital image file: identify initial...
7605945 Color reproduction definition creating method and color conversion method  
The present invention selects color materials for a virtual device from real color materials, adjusts a gray balance to obtain a predetermined black color at a maximum device value by using...
7602969 Imaging data processing method, imaging data processing device, and computer program  
An accurate white balance adjustment process is provided for an image captured in an environment where different color components, such as an ambient light and a flash light are mixed. With respect...
7602968 Overlaid graphical user interface and method for image processing  
A graphical user interface for execution on a computer for image processing of a digital image, and method, in which an input interface is overlaid on the digital image and visually connected to...
7602967 Method of improving image quality  
A method of improving image quality of a reproduced image, the method including converting red, green, and blue color data of a subject pixel into color data having brightness and chroma...
7602954 Method for quantitative video-microscopy and associated system and computer software program product  
A method of determining an amount of at least one molecular species in a sample from an image of the sample captured by an image acquisition device is provided, each molecular species being...
7602527 Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program  
An album with the color arrangement harmonized with images is provided. An album creating apparatus for creating an album including a plurality of images includes: a color extraction section for...
7602402 Method of displaying colors of graphic objects on screen control display  
A method of displaying color objects for the screen control display is provided. First, a plurality of elements and son elements on a screen control display respectively to a first level list and a...
7602400 Color adjusting method and color adjusting apparatus  
A color adjusting method of adjusting colors of a color image. The method includes: adjusting a color of the color image by converting a value of a parameter representing a straight line passing...
7599552 Image processing apparatus, and color correction method and lookup table  
In a color conversion method of inputting at least two color difference values and obtaining a corresponding saturation value, a main lookup table which stores the saturation value for the color...
7599550 Method for accurate real-time compensation for changing illumination spectra in digital video cameras  
A method for determining a correction for a spectra of scene illumination based on analysis of color content of a video image, in which average image colors are obtained by considering only those...
7596266 Method and system for separating illumination and reflectance using a log color space  
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for generating an illumination invariant, chromaticity representation of an image is provided. The method...
7596265 Segmenting pixels in an image based on orientation-dependent adaptive thresholds  
Methods, machines, and computer-readable media storing machine-readable instructions for segmenting pixels in an image are described. In one aspect, a region of background pixels is identified in...
7596264 Image file processing method including color space conversion and corresponding image file processing apparatus  
An image file processing method adopted in an image file processing apparatus, includes steps for: inputting from the outside an image file containing at least color information corresponding to...
7596263 Image transmitting apparatus, image receiving apparatus, and image transmission system  
An image transmitter has a color difference differential calculating unit configured to calculate color difference differential data relating to a difference between a current predicting value...