1422 results about "Color signal" patented technology

A method for transforming three color input signals (R, G, B) corresponding to three gamut defining color primaries to four color output signals (R′, G′, B′, W) corresponding to the gamut defining color primaries and one additional color primary W for driving a display having a white point different from W includes the steps of: normalizing the color input signals (R,G,B) such that a combination of equal amounts in each signal produces a color having XYZ tristimulus values identical to those of the additional color primary to produce normalized color signals (Rn,Gn,Bn); calculating a common signal S that is a function F1 of the three normalized color signals (Rn,Gn,Bn); calculating a function F2 of the common signal S and adding it to each of the three normalized color signals (Rn,Gn,Bn) to provide three color signals (Rn′,Gn′,Bn′); normalizing the three color signals (Rn′,Gn′,Bn′) such that a combination of equal amounts in each signal produces a color having XYZ tristimulus values identical to those of the display white point to produce three of the four color output signals (R′,G′,B′); and calculating a function F3 of the common signal S and assigning it to the fourth color output signal W.

A method for transforming three color input signals (R, G, B) corresponding to three gamut defining color primaries to four color output signals (R′, G′, B′, W) corresponding to the gamut defining color primaries and one additional color primary W for driving a display having emitters that emit light corresponding to the to the four color output signals including calculating a common signal value S as a function F1 of the three color input signals (R,G,B) for a current and neighboring pixels; determining a final common signal value S′ based upon the common signals for the current and neighboring pixels; calculating the three color signals (R′,G′,B′) by calculating a value of a function F2 of the final common signal value S′ and adding it to each of the three color input signals (R,G,B); and calculating the output signal W as a function F3 of the final common signal value S′.

A white point adjusting apparatus is provided to adjust an achromatic color level for an input video signal including a plurality of color signals, and display an adjusted image on a liquid crystal module. This adjusting apparatus comprises: a first table for setting a white point by deciding an offset quantity of at least one color signal from a highest gray level for each color temperature; a second table for setting an offset quantity of the color signal to converge a halftone white point for each color temperature set by the first table; and a white point adjusting unit for adding the offset quantities set by the first and second tables and to the input video signal.

A security paper indicates exposure to a solvent by a solvent resistant color signal. A metal mordant dye first co-reactant and a mordant dye second co-reactant form an organic solvent-insoluble colored reaction product when the paper is washed with an organic solvent. The metal mordant dye first co-reactant and a mordant dye second co-reactant are chemically isolated from each other so as to prevent the coordinate covalent bond from forming until the paper is washed with an organic solvent. The chemical isolation can be effected by encapsulation or other physical separation of the co-reactants. The organic solvent-insoluble colored reaction product, once formed, remains entrapped in the web when the paper is washed with an organic solvent. The chemical isolation prevents the organic solvent-insoluble colored reaction product from forming upon the application of pressure alone to the paper.

A method for reducing random access memory (RAM) of an IC in display devices includes transforming a digital signal of a graphic data of three original colors (R, G, B) to digital signals of Y:Cb:Cr; taking one sample from two sample ratios of Y:Cb:Cr (4:2:0) or Y:Cb:Cr (4:2:2); storing in the RAM of a driving IC to reduce the RAM usage (with compressible data); then transforming the Y:Cb:Cr signals to three original colors (R, G, B) signal format to output image data, wherein Y represents brightness signal, and Cb and Cr represent color signals.

An electronic endoscope includes a video-scope with an image sensor and a video-processor, to which the video-scope is detachably connected. The electronic endoscope has a light source that emits illuminating light for illuminating a subject, a color adjuster that performs a color adjustment process for color image signals read from the image sensor, which include a plurality of color signal components corresponding to a plurality of color elements, and a light source detector that detects the type of the light source. The color adjuster performs the color adjustment process in accordance with the type of the light source such that color in displayed subject image is properly reproduced.

An image-capturing device captures a subject image through an exchangeable lens. A white balance sensor that is set at a position conjugate with the position of the image-capturing device relative to the exchangeable lens to receive the light from the subject image and outputs color signals. A white balance adjustment signal calculation circuit calculates white balance adjustment basic signals based upon the color signals output from the white balance sensor and weighting points in conformance to the photographic range, the number of sets of red color data and the subject brightness value. Adjustment signals to be used for white balance adjustment are determined based upon the weighting points and the adjustment basic signals.

A solid-state color image pickup apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels, wherein said plurality of pixels are arranged to form an array pattern comprising a first checkered pattern and a second checkered pattern, wherein each of said plurality of pixels detects colors signals of red, green, and blue, and wherein said plurality of pixels comprises: higher-sensitivity pixels forming the first checkered pattern; and lower-sensitivity pixels forming the second checkered pattern.

A method and apparatus to remove color noise included in raw data while effectively preventing image quality degradation. For Interest pixels serially set onto a mosaic image formed of raw data, conversion is executed into a pixel value for noise removal based on a processing reference pixel value having a unified color signal component in each interest pixel, noise is removed from the pixel value for noise removal, and the pixel value for noise removal with noise removed is converted into the source pixel value, whereby only color noise can be removed without affecting a luminance signal.

A color converting apparatus and method which accurately converts a color signal in the vicinity of the boundary of a color range of a color reproducing device. This enables dissimilar devices to exchange color images and accurately reproduce colors from the sending device to the receiving device despite different color capabilities of the two devices. This is accomplished by a first color converted result and a second color converted result are stored in a color conversion table. The first color converted result is obtained by converting an input color signal into a color signal that is color-reproducible. The second color converted result is obtained by converting an input color signal into a color signal that is not color-reproducible. In a region outside of the color reproducible range of a printer, a display, or other similar devices, when the relationship of an input color signal is accurately kept, a color signal is accurately performed.

A method of adjusting the N components of an N component colour signal (such as the 3 components of an RGB colour signal) with respect to colour temperature of illuminating light when imaging a coloured subject, comprising the step of computing the difference between each of the components of the colour signal for different temperatures of illuminating light, using an algorithm based on the spectral sensitivity of the imaging means and Planck's equation defining black body illumination to obtain N components whose values are independent of the colour temperature of the illuminating light. Normalisation of the adjusted values renders the values independent of intensity of illumination and can also reduce the processing time for further processing of the signals. A technique for compensating for gamma correction which is commonly built in cameras, is disclosed.

An image processing method of processing image data includes a color space conversion step of converting an input color signal of image data into an output color signal having cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y) values; a black generation / under color removal step of converting the CMY values into cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K) values by adding a black (K) value and decreasing the CMY values so that portions of cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y) recording liquids used to form the image data are replaced with a black (K) recording liquid; and a total amount control step of controlling amounts of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K) recording liquids calculated from the CMYK values so that a total amount of the CMYK recording liquids per unit area on a recording medium does not exceed a predetermined total amount limit.

A color signal processing method includes calculating a mixing ratio for source primary colors of a color reproducing device through which an input color signal having standard primary colors is reproduced, mixing the source primary colors according to the calculated mixing ratio to obtain reconstructed primary colors, and transforming the input color signal to match a color gamut of the reconstructed primary colors and outputting the transformed color signal. Thus, the color gamut of the color reproducing device can be freely adjusted within a reproduction range thereof according to the input color signal.

A data driver for a display includes a reference current generator that is configured to generate L gray scale reference currents, the L gray scale reference currents being associated with non-zero gray scale levels, a gamma selection module that is configured to select M gamma reference currents from the L gray scale reference currents responsive to a gamma signal, a gamma voltage generator that is configured to generate a zero gray scale level gamma reference voltage, and a data current generator that is configured to generate a data current responsive to a selected one of the M gamma reference currents or the zero gray scale level gamma reference voltage responsive to a color signal.

A color interpolation method and apparatus for interpolating missing color signals for each pixel of an image sensor. The color interpolation method includes forming a difference image channel by subtracting an R or B color value from a G color value in pixels adjacent to a pixel to be interpolated, detecting the direction of an edge to which the pixel to be interpolated belongs and selecting adjacent pixels to be used for color interpolation. By calculating a weight value indicating the direction of the edge and providing the weight value to the adjacent pixels to be used for color interpolation, and using the difference image values of the adjacent pixels and the weight values, a color component missing in the pixel to be interpolated can be calculated.

The first color gamut conversion unit 102 limits, in a visually natural manner, an output signal to a signal within a range of the DCI color gamut through well-known color gamut conversion processing when there is a color region exceeding the DCI color gamut, the output signal being obtained through the imaging by the imaging unit 101 and represented by the primaries (R, G, and B) determined by a color filter of an image sensor of the camera. It is to be noted that a color gamut conversion technique may be any technique which can limit a color gamut such as gamut conversion processing (Non Patent Literature: “Fundamentals of Color Reproduction Engineering”, Corona Publishing Co., Ltd., pp. 178-180).

A video processor for endoscopic camera or for videoendoscopic probe associated with a color video sensor, the video processor comprising: a signal preprocessing circuit designed to be remotely connected to the video sensor through an electrical link without any intermediate connection device, the preprocessing circuit comprising a first signal processor for generating from image signals output by the video sensor raw video signals comprising a brightness signal and a color signal, these signals being not usable directly because they are phase shifted and are noisy due to synchronization residues, and a synchronizing circuit for synchronizing the video sensor and the first signal processor; and a remote auxiliary circuit comprising a second signal processor connected to the first signal processor through a low impedance electrical link providing good immunity to interference, the second signal processor generating from said raw video brightness and color signals at least one useful video signal according to an international video standard.

A color solid-state image pickup device comprises a plurality of light-receiving sections being arranged on the surface of a semiconductor substrate; complementary color filters which are stacked on all or portions of the plurality of light-receiving sections, each complementary color filter blocking incident light of one color of the three primary colors, to thereby permit transmission of incident light of remaining two colors; at least first and second color signal detecting layers which have the complementary color filters stacked thereon and are formed so as to be separated in a depthwise direction of the light-receiving section, the first and second signal detecting layers detecting a respective color signal of the light of two colors having passed through the complementary color filters; and a signal reading unit for reading the respective color signals in a distinguished manner, the signal reading unit being connected to the respective color signal detecting layers.

The present invention relates to a camera (1, 1′) for generating a biometrical signal of a living being comprising: a filter (11) for blocking incident visible light in a wavelength range up to at least 550 nm, a color sensor (12, 12′) for receiving said filtered incident light and generating at least two different color signals (5, 6, 9), a combination unit (15) for generating at least one combined color signal (7a, 7b) by combining said at least two color signals, and a processing unit (16) for processing said at least one combined color signal and extracting at least one biometrical signal (8) of said living being (3).

The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus adapted for performing intra-image encoding based on resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. An intra prediction unit serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image based on a chroma format signal indicating whether resolution of color components is one of 4:2:0 format, 4:2:2 format, and 4:4:4 format, and a color space signal indicating whether color space is one of YCbCr, RGB, and XYZ. An orthogonal transform unit and a quantization unit serve to also change orthogonal transform technique and quantization technique in accordance with the chroma format signal and the color space signal. A reversible encoding unit encodes the chroma format signal and the color space signal to include the encoded signals into image compressed information.

A color image capture element comprises a plurality of color component photoelectric conversion elements, each disposed with a color filter on a light receiving surface for respectively transmitting different color components, for receiving incoming light and selectively outputting respective color signals corresponding to the intensity of the different color components, and an infrared component photoelectric conversion element, disposed with an infrared transmitting filter on a light receiving surface for transmitting an infrared component, for selectively outputting an infrared signal. This enables the infrared component included in at least one of a plurality of color signals to be corrected, thereby improving the sensitivity of a color image capture apparatus.

An apparatus and a method are provided for adjusting real time video to compensate for color blindness. A video system includes a decoder that receives and decodes a video signal into original color signals. A processor receives the original color signals and outputs color signals that are adjusted for compensating for a selected one of a number of precharacterized types of color blindness. A screen receives the adjusted color signals and displays images adjusted from the original to compensate for the selected type of color blindness. The adjusted signals are derived from the original signals by one color gamut adjustment for each type of color blindness. The color gamut adjustments are generated by characterizing at least the known, major color deficiencies, and then generating color gamut transforms to fit more range of actual color contrast within the range of perception of the color blind. Each transform is stored in a memory as a lookup table, and looked up by the processor. Software controls whether any color adjustment is to take place, and if so which one of the available mappings is to be used by showing a sample image for each one of the color transforms.

A method and system for automated digital fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) image analysis. Luminance parameters from a digital image of a biological tissue sample to which a fluorescent compound (e.g., LSI-HER-2 / neu and CEP-17 dyes) have been applied are analyzed to determine plural regions of interest. Fluorescent color signals in the plural regions of interest including plural cell nuclei are identified, classified and grouped into plural groups. Each of the plural groups is validated based on pre-defined conditions. A medical diagnosis or prognosis or medical, life science or biotechnology experiment conclusion determined using a count of plural ratios of validated fluorescent color signals within each of the cell nuclei within the plural groups.

An imaging device for imaging an object to generate a color image data, comprising: a solid-state imaging element comprising: a photoelectric conversion layer laminated above a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion elements comprising at least two kinds of photoelectric conversion elements aligned on the semiconductor substrate for detecting colors different from that to be detected by the photoelectric conversion layer; and a signal reading circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate for reading out color signals according to signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer; and a color signal generating unit for generating a color signal constituting one-pixel data in the color image data on the basis of signal charge accumulated in a first photoelectric conversion element corresponding the one-pixel data among the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge accumulated in at least one second photoelectric conversion element, adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion element, for detecting the same color as that of the first photoelectric conversion element.

An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor including a color filter having pixels of different colors arranged in a predetermined order and a demosaic processor. The image sensor receives a subject image and outputs an image signal including color signals of the different colors. The demosaic processor generates color signals of the different colors for each of pixels of the image from the image signal. The demosaic processor includes a generation unit and a noise reduction unit. The generation unit performs computation using a target color signal representing a predetermined target color signal included in the image signal and a predetermined different color signal so as to generate a color-related signal that associates the target color signal with the predetermined different color signal for a pixel of the target color signal. The noise reduction unit performs a noise reduction process on the color-related signal generated by the generation unit.

The white balance correction method and apparatus estimate a color temperature of a photographing light source with which a color image has been taken by using at least gray and / or skin color information contained in an input color image and correct image signals of the color image based on the estimated color temperature. The density correction method multiplies image signals of respective pixels in an input color image by set coefficients to detect pixels having the multiplied image signals in the vicinity of a blackbody locus curve of skin color as skin color candidate pixels and assigns an average obtained for predetermined color signals from the skin color candidate pixels detected to a predetermined density of a color corresponding to the color signals on a print. The recording medium on which one or both of the white balance correction method and the density correction method are recorded in a computer-readable manner as a program to be executed by a computer.

A full color complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging circuit is provided. The imaging circuit comprises an array of photodiodes including a plurality of pixel groups. Each pixel group supplies 3 electrical color signals, corresponding to 3 detectable colors. The circuit also includes a color filter array overlying the photodiode array employing less than 3 separate filter colors. Each pixel group may be enabled as a dual-pixel including a single photodiode (PD) to supply a first color signal and stacked PDs to supply a second and third color signal. In one aspect, the color filter array employs 1 filter color per pixel group. In another aspect, the color filter array employees 2 filter colors per pixel group. In either aspect, the color filter array forms a checkerboard pattern of color filter pixels. For example, a magenta color filter may overlie the stacked PDs of each dual-pixel, to name one variation.

The invention provides an endoscope having a scope that takes an image enlarged by driving a movable lens of an optical zoom mechanism by a CCD and displays an image of an object to be observed, wherein a multiplier multiplies RGB color signals by a coefficient set in view of light distribution of illumination light depending on focusing distances of the movable lens, thus eliminating uneven brightness resulting from varying light distribution depending on the focusing distances in enlargement photography. A red component cut filter for cutting a long wavelength side in a red band of the illumination light is provided in a light source unit to improve redness. Further, a coefficient for averaging a brightness signal for a predetermined number of pixels for each horizontal line is calculated, and this coefficient calculation may eliminate unevenness.