Automatic white balance detection and correction of an image captured in a digital camera
    1.
    发明授权
    Automatic white balance detection and correction of an image captured in a digital camera 失效
    在数码相机中拍摄的图像的自动白平衡检测和校正

    公开(公告)号:US06411331B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-06-25

    申请号:US08808918

    申请日:1997-02-28

    IPC分类号: H04N973

    CPC分类号: H04N9/735

    摘要: A digital camera includes a lens and a plurality of color filters adjacent the lens. An array of detectors such as CCDs each receive, through the lens and a corresponding one of the color filters, light reflected from a scene. Each detector outputs a signal representative of an amount of light it receives. Circuitry is connected to the array for processing the signals from the detectors and generating a set of digital image data including a chromaticity value and a luminance value of a plurality of pixels representing an uncorrected image of the scene. A control circuit maps a two-dimensional representation of the digital image data into a two-dimensional representation of a set of reference image data and adjusts selected ones of the values of the set of digital image data in accordance with a predetermined transform to white balance the uncorrected image of the scene and produce a modified set of digital image data representing a corrected image of the scene.

    摘要翻译: 数码相机包括透镜和与透镜相邻的多个滤色器。 诸如CCD的检测器阵列各自通过透镜和对应的一个滤色器从场景反射的光接收。 每个检测器输出表示其接收的光量的信号。 电路连接到阵列,用于处理来自检测器的信号,并产生一组数字图像数据,包括表示场景的未校正图像的多个像素的色度值和亮度值。 控制电路将数字图像数据的二维表示映射成一组参考图像数据的二维表示,并且根据对白平衡的预定变换来调整该组数字图像数据中的选定值 该场景的未校正图像并且产生表示场景的校正图像的经修改的数字图像数据集合。

    System and method for printing and scanning a user-completed digital still camera image proof sheet and order form
    2.
    发明授权
    System and method for printing and scanning a user-completed digital still camera image proof sheet and order form 失效
    系统和方法,用于打印和扫描用户完成的数码相机图像证明表和订单

    公开(公告)号:US06744529B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-01

    申请号:US09995869

    申请日:2001-11-29

    IPC分类号: G06F1500

    摘要: A digital still camera is used for taking and storing digital representations of a plurality of images. A printer, such as an ink jet printer or a laser printer, is used for generating graphical representations of selected ones of the plurality of images on a preselected print media such as a paper. A flash memory card, floppy diskette, direct data link or some other data transfer scheme is used to transfer the digital representations of the plurality of images from the digital still camera to the printer. The printer includes programming for generating a combination proof sheet and order form. The combination proof sheet and order form can include an array of thumbnail images and a plurality of image selection and/or image enhancement user designation areas such as bubbles to be filled in by the user with a pencil. The printer includes a scanner and related circuitry and software for scanning the combination proof sheet and order form to detect the user designation areas completed by the user. The programming in the printer thereafter causes it to generate at least one final print sheet with the images and enhancements designated by the user on the combination proof sheet and order form. The proof sheet and order form can be used to designate the number of final prints of a selected image, the size and/or cropping of the prints, the brightness, color balance, background, borders and so forth.

    摘要翻译: 数字静态照相机用于拍摄和存储多个图像的数字表示。 诸如喷墨打印机或激光打印机之类的打印机被用于在诸如纸张的预先选择的打印介质上产生多个图像中所选择的图像的图形表示。 使用闪存卡,软盘,直接数据链接或其他一些数据传输方案将多个图像的数字表示从数字照相机传送到打印机。 打印机包括用于生成组合证明表和订单的编程。 组合证明表和订单形式可以包括缩略图的阵列和多个图像选择和/或图像增强用户指定区域,例如用户用铅笔填充的气泡。 该打印机包括扫描器和相关的电路和软件,用于扫描组合证明表和订单以检测用户完成的用户指定区域。 然后,打印机中的编程使其能够生成至少一个最终打印纸,其中具有用户在组合证明表和订单形式上指定的图像和增强。 证明表和订单可用于指定所选图像的最终打印数量,打印尺寸和/或裁剪,亮度,色彩平衡,背景,边框等。

    Cache memory system for a color ink jet printer
    3.
    发明授权
    Cache memory system for a color ink jet printer 失效
    用于彩色喷墨打印机的高速缓存存储器系统

    公开(公告)号:US5450532A

    公开(公告)日:1995-09-12

    申请号:US55073

    申请日:1993-04-29

    IPC分类号: G06K15/00 G06F15/00

    CPC分类号: G06K15/00 G06K2215/0094

    摘要: A color printer receives P, N-bit values indicating a computer generated color to be printed, there being 2.sup.NP possible combinations of bits in the P, N-bit color values. Each N-bit value has a least significant bit (LSB). Upon receiving P, N-bit color values, the color printer creates an address from P combined multiple-bit segments of each of the received N-bit values, each multiple bit segment excluding at least a LSB of each N-bit value. The color printer includes a cache memory having substantially less addresses than 2.sup.NP, each cache address including first and second entries, a first entry being P values indicative of a computer generated color and a second entry being P values usable by the color printer to reproduce the first entry. A processor determines if there is a match at an address created from a received computer color value between a first entry and the received computer color value, the match disregarding an LSB of each N-bit value comprising the first entry at the address. The processor is responsive to a determined match to access the second entry at the address and to employ the second entry to control the color printer. Exclusion of the LSB's in determination of the presence of a match enables a substantially greater probability of finding such a match in the cache memory.

    摘要翻译: 彩色打印机接收P,N位值,表示要打印的计算机生成的颜色,存在P,N位颜色值中2NP可能的位组合。 每个N位值具有最低有效位(LSB)。 在接收到P,N位颜色值时,彩色打印机从接收的每个N位值的P组合多位段创建一个地址,每个多位段除了每个N位值的至少LSB。 彩色打印机包括具有比2NP少得多的地址的高速缓冲存储器,每个高速缓存地址包括第一条目和第二条目,第一条目是指示计算机生成的颜色的P值,第二条目是彩色打印机可用的P值, 第一次入场 处理器确定在从第一条目和接收到的计算机颜色值之间的接收到的计算机颜色值创建的地址是否存在匹配,匹配忽略包括地址处的第一条目的每个N位值的LSB。 处理器响应于确定的匹配以访问地址处的第二条目并且使用第二条目来控制彩色打印机。 在确定匹配的存在时排除LSB使得能够在高速缓冲存储器中找到这样的匹配的可能性更大。

    System and method for printing and scanning a user-completed digital still camera image proof sheet and order form
    4.
    发明授权
    System and method for printing and scanning a user-completed digital still camera image proof sheet and order form 有权
    系统和方法,用于打印和扫描用户完成的数码相机图像证明表和订单

    公开(公告)号:US08228527B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-24

    申请号:US10821490

    申请日:2004-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06K15/02

    摘要: A digital still camera is used for taking and storing digital representations of a plurality of images. A printer, such as an ink jet printer or a laser printer, is used for generating graphical representations of selected ones of the plurality of images on a preselected print media such as a paper. A flash memory card, floppy diskette, direct data link or some other data transfer scheme is used to transfer the digital representations of the plurality of images from the digital still camera to the printer. The printer includes programming for generating a combination proof sheet and order form. The combination proof sheet and order form can include an array of thumbnail images and a plurality of image selection and/or image enhancement user designation areas such as bubbles to be filled in by the user with a pencil. The printer includes a scanner and related circuitry and software for scanning the combination proof sheet and order form to detect the user designation areas completed by the user. The programming in the printer thereafter causes it to generate at least one final print sheet with the images and enhancements designated by the user on the combination proof sheet and order form. The proof sheet and order form can be used to designate the number of final prints of a selected image, the size and/or cropping of the prints, the brightness, color balance, background, borders and so forth.

    摘要翻译: 数字静态照相机用于拍摄和存储多个图像的数字表示。 诸如喷墨打印机或激光打印机之类的打印机被用于在诸如纸张的预先选择的打印介质上产生多个图像中所选择的图像的图形表示。 使用闪存卡,软盘,直接数据链接或其他一些数据传输方案将多个图像的数字表示从数字照相机传送到打印机。 打印机包括用于生成组合证明表和订单的编程。 组合证明表和订单形式可以包括缩略图的阵列和多个图像选择和/或图像增强用户指定区域,例如用户用铅笔填充的气泡。 该打印机包括扫描器和相关的电路和软件,用于扫描组合证明表和订单以检测用户完成的用户指定区域。 然后,打印机中的编程使其能够生成至少一个最终打印纸,其中具有用户在组合证明表和订单形式上指定的图像和增强。 证明表和订单可用于指定所选图像的最终打印数量,打印尺寸和/或裁剪,亮度,色彩平衡,背景,边框等。

    System for calibrating a color display to enable color-matching
    5.
    发明授权
    System for calibrating a color display to enable color-matching 失效
    用于校准彩色显示器以实现色彩匹配的系统

    公开(公告)号:US5381349A

    公开(公告)日:1995-01-10

    申请号:US084375

    申请日:1993-06-29

    IPC分类号: H04N1/60 H04N1/62 H04N1/46

    CPC分类号: H04N1/6011 H04N1/622

    摘要: A color display screen displays a calibration color patch and a comparison color patch. The calibration color patch manifests a calibration color of a predetermined intensity, and the comparison color patch manifests a comparison color derived from a user determined input value. The system is controlled by a processor and is responsive to a user's indication of a perceived color match between a calibration color patch and a comparison color patch, to determine a transfer function that enables conversion of a value that generated the comparison color to a value assigned to the calibration color. The processor is further responsive to further perceived color matches of first and second color patches with first and second different intensity calibration color patches, respectively, to determine if first and second transfer functions determined for the first and second comparisons are within a transfer function threshold value of each other. If they are, the transfer functions are averaged and employed to calibrate colors transmitted to an attached color printer. If they are not within the transfer function threshold value, an additional comparison test is made. If the resulting transfer function is not within the threshold value, a default color transfer function is substituted.

    摘要翻译: 彩色显示屏幕显示校准色标和比较色块。 校准色标表示预定强度的校准颜色,并且比较色块显示从用户确定的输入值导出的比较颜色。 系统由处理器控制,并且响应于用户对校准色块和比较色块之间感知到的颜色匹配的指示,以确定能够将生成比较颜色的值转换为分配值的传递函数 校准颜色。 处理器进一步响应于分别具有第一和第二不同强度校准色标的第一和第二色块的进一步感知到的颜色匹配,以确定为第一和第二比较确定的第一和第二传递函数是否在传递函数阈值内 的对方 如果是,传送函数被平均并用于校准传输到附着的彩色打印机的颜色。 如果它们不在传递函数阈值内,则进行另外的比较测试。 如果所得到的传递函数不在阈值内,则替换默认颜色传递函数。