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Number: 348/671
Name: Television > Image signal processing circuitry specific to television > Gray scale transformation
Description: Subject matter including circuitry which modifies the range of values contained in a TV signal.


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
348/678 Automatic range control (e.g., agc, automatic contrast control) 326
348/673 Combined contrast control and brightness or dc level control 133
348/686 Manual contrast control (e.g., linear) 32
348/674 Nonlinear amplitude modification (e.g., gamma) 205
348/672 Using histogram 82


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7408530 Apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel Aug. 5, 2008
7375770 Method for luminance transition improvement May. 20, 2008
7358994 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium thereof, and program thereof Apr. 15, 2008
7345712 Display apparatus Mar. 18, 2008
7265795 Video signal processing circuit, video display apparatus, and video display method Sep. 4, 2007
7259773 Display device with improved representation of the shades of grey Aug. 21, 2007
7227581 Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular for large area flicker effect reduction Jun. 5, 2007
7221335 Image display method and device for plasma display panel May. 22, 2007
7221408 Adaptive contrast enhancement method for video signals based on time-varying nonlinear transforms May. 22, 2007
7126617 Method of driving display apparatus and plasma display apparatus Oct. 24, 2006
7119772 Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein Oct. 10, 2006
7110616 Device for processing images, in particular medical images Sep. 19, 2006
7068837 Image processing method Jun. 27, 2006
7062105 Image management system, image management method and image display device Jun. 13, 2006
7050099 Solid-state image pickup apparatus May. 23, 2006
7042522 Adaptive contrast enhancement method using time-varying nonlinear transforms on a video signal May. 9, 2006
7027088 Color to monotone conversion apparatus, color to monotone conversion method and a medium recording thereon a color to monotone conversion program Apr. 11, 2006
7012625 Image quality correcting circuit Mar. 14, 2006
6989870 Video signal processing apparatus and method capable of converting an interlace video signal into a non-interlace video signal Jan. 24, 2006
6965402 System for detecting and storing digital pictures Nov. 15, 2005
6950114 Apparatus for compensating for luminance level of video signal Sep. 27, 2005
6911977 Method and device for restoring a light signal Jun. 28, 2005
6788306 Display apparatus displaying pseudo gray levels and method for displaying the same Sep. 7, 2004
6765551 Column electrode driving circuit for use with image display device and image display device incorporating the same Jul. 20, 2004
6700628 Device and method for controlling brightness of image signal Mar. 2, 2004
6690499 Multi-state light modulator with non-zero response time and linear gray scale Feb. 10, 2004
6633343 Dynamic gamma correction apparatus Oct. 14, 2003
6618056 Display device with improved representation of the shades of grey Sep. 9, 2003
6614488 Method and apparatus for controlling tint in a digital color display system Sep. 2, 2003
6597371 System for digitally driving addressable pixel matrix Jul. 22, 2003
6456302 Image display apparatus and image evaluation apparatus Sep. 24, 2002
6373533 Image quality correction circuit for video signals Apr. 16, 2002
6285413 Method and apparatus for dynamic contrast improvement in video pictures Sep. 4, 2001
6278496 Digital correction circuit and image data processing apparatus equipped with a digital correction circuit Aug. 21, 2001
6268890 Image display apparatus with selected combinations of subfields displayed for a gray level Jul. 31, 2001
6266102 Image display method, gradation conversion circuit, and image signal conversion apparatus Jul. 24, 2001
6137541 Image processing method and image processing apparatus Oct. 24, 2000
6091442 Apparatus for improving the visibility of images Jul. 18, 2000
5982449 Television receiver that provides gradation correction using a CPU Nov. 9, 1999
5940142 Display device driving for a gray scale expression, and a driving circuit therefor Aug. 17, 1999
5936684 Image processing method and image processing apparatus Aug. 10, 1999
5923383 Image enhancement method using histogram equalization Jul. 13, 1999
5835161 Kinescope driver apparatus with gamma correction coupled with feedback cathode current sensor Nov. 10, 1998
5777590 Grayscale shading for liquid crystal display panels Jul. 7, 1998
5712659 Apparatus and method for adjusting contrast of R,G,B signals Jan. 27, 1998
5689311 After image reducer Nov. 18, 1997
5663772 Gray-level image processing with weighting factors to reduce flicker Sep. 2, 1997
5640212 Video signal clipping circuitry and method for color television broadcasting Jun. 17, 1997
5621476 Reducing the effects of noise in level number transformation Apr. 15, 1997
5604545 Methods and apparatus for enhancing gray scale images Feb. 18, 1997

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