183 results about "Change colour" patented technology

The thermostat includes a housing having at least a portion thereof illuminated by a light that changes color via a manual input. The light illuminates the display for easy readability while the variable color of the light allows a user to match the appearance of the thermostat to best complement the surrounding décor. User input elements provide for the manual adjustment of one or more characteristics of the light, such as visible color of the light. The light source comprises at least one LED for displaying a plurality of colors. In this case, to change the color of the light illuminating the translucent portion of the housing or backlighting the display, electronics within the thermostat control the drive signals to the LED in order to operate the LED to provide the desired color. The invention also contemplates filtering the light and manually adjusting the filtering to provide the desired aesthetics.

There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of preventing colors from changing while being displayed when images are combined. The image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a video graphic processor 12 that combines a plurality of image signals to generate a combined image signal and an HDMI Tx 14 that transmits, when the combined image signal is transmitted, an identification flag of one of a first color space standard and a second color space standard having a color gamut wider than a color gamut of the first color space standard as the color space standard of the combined image signal and a host CPU 13 decides the first or second color space standard so as to prevent change in color while being displayed.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image generating unit that reads an original and generates image data; a color-region input unit that inputs a color region subject to color matching in the image data; an object-color calculating unit that calculates an object color to which the color region is matched; a color-adjustment-condition setting unit that sets a plurality of color adjustment conditions on-which output of the object color under an image output condition is within an allowable color difference; a color-conversion-condition changing unit that selects one of the color adjustment conditions on which a color difference occurring in an entire color space is smallest, and that changes a color conversion condition; a color conversion unit that performs color conversion of the image data based on the changed color conversion condition; and an image output unit that outputs the image data subjected to the color conversion.

A vertical color detector group according to the present invention is formed on a semiconductor substrate and includes layers for collecting photons of different wavelength bands. The color detector group can be programmed to perform dynamic switching between sub-sampled color data and full measured color readout. The color detector group can also be configured in a portion of an array to emulate color filter array patterns, and programmed to dynamically alter the degree to which color information is sub-sampled. The programmable color detector groups can allow for switching between different levels of quality and resolution, allowing for selection of an optimal pattern based on image content or lighting conditions. By combining the color detector group of the present invention with conventional color filters, color filter arrays of more than three colors can be constructed.

A color display element using a medium having optical properties modulated by an external modulation means is characterized in that the medium has a brightness modulation range where a brightness is changed by the modulation means and a color modulation range where a color is changed by the modulation means, the color display element has a unit pixel comprised of a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel having a color filter, and the modulation means gives modulation of the color modulation range to the first sub-pixel to display colors within the color modulation range, and gives modulation of the brightness modulation range to the second sub-pixel to display brightness of the color of the color filter within the brightness modulation range, whereby provides a color display.

A communication cable apparatus, such as an actual cable, a connector for a cable end, a jacks for receiving a cable connector, or a holder or tie for bundling cables, includes at least one component formed of a material which can change color. The color change is visible to a human observer and is indicative of a temperature of the component. One or more colors changes may occur to indicate one or more ranges of temperature.

A container for sunscreen having (a) an alphanumeric indication of a sun protection factor and (b) a solar detector for displaying whether accumulated ultraviolet radiation striking the skin of a user of sunscreen with the indicated sun protection factor has exceeded a threshold level. The solar detector has a sensor layer with a photochromic material that reacts to ultraviolet radiation by changing from a clear state to a colored one, and an ultraviolet absorbing or blocking material covering at least one portion of the sensor layer. The ultraviolet absorbing material covering the at least one portion being present in an amount or concentration such that, upon exposure of the solar detector means to the ultraviolet radiation striking the skin of the user of the sunscreen over the same period of time, blocks sufficient ultraviolet radiation from striking the photochromic material so as to prevent the photochromic material from changing color until the threshold level has been reached at which time the photochromic material changes from the clear state to the colored one.

A method of displaying a color video picture according to a field sequential process is provided. A display device displays an image comprising a matrix of pixels. One frame image is composed of four field images ranging from a first field image to a fourth field image. With four adjacent pixels handled as one unit, the colors R, G, B, W of illuminating lights applied to the pixels in each unit are different from each other, and the arrangement of the colors is successively switched or changed in each field period. Information representing the colors R, G, B, W separated from a video signal is displayed sequentially in successive fields at positions corresponding to the colors of the illuminating lights applied to the pixels and times at which the illuminating lights are applied to the pixels.

An apparatus with time controlled color change indication comprises an apparatus includes a disposable, limited or restricted use product and an oxygen sensing color changeable dye disposed on a portion of the apparatus, the dye being translucent or having a first color upon application and for a defined time thereafter and the dye changing color after exposure to oxygen for the defined time. For example, a packaging for containing a product for human consumption has a portion with a color changeable dye disposed thereon. The dye changes color after being exposed to oxygen for a controlled and predetermined period of time indicating that the product for human consumption should no longer be consume or has decreased in freshness, quality of taste or potency.

A color reproduction system has a color image input section, and a color correcting section for correcting colors of a subject image obtained by photographing a subject by the color image input section. The color correcting section corrects colors by changing over a plurality of color correction parameters according to a subject image signal from the color image input section.

A process for forming an image on a substrate, which comprises coati ng the substrate with an amine of molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium that changes colour on heating or irradiation as an aqueous dispersion or suspension or as a solution in an organic solvent. Also described is a coated substrate, wherein the coating is a substantially visible light-transparent layer comprising an amine compound of molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium, and a solution of said amine compound and a thermoplastic polymer or a photo-polymerisable monomer.

The present invention concerns double-walled microcapsules with an outer thermoplastic wall and an application process thereof on substrates, namely textile substrate. The microcapsules are applied to fibres so as to produce a slow release of products such as fragrances, antimicrobial, insecticides, antioxidants, vitamins or they can be used as materials such as thermochromic pigments, that change colour when heated, or "phase change materials" (PCM), that convey thermal insulation/control.

Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of an analyte (e.g., gas/radiation) that utilizes color change detection mechanisms. The apparatus has an indicator that changes color in the presence of the analyte. For example, in the absence of the analyte, the indicator reflects a first color. In the presence of the analyte, the indicator reflects a second color. The apparatus includes a color sensor that receives light reflected from the indicator and based thereon generates one or more signals that represent the reflected light. The apparatus also includes a color change detection mechanism that is coupled to the color sensor and that receives the signal generated by the color sensor and based on the signal determines whether the indicator has changed to the second color. Once it is determined that the indicator has changed to the second color, an alarm can be generated or remedial measures can be initiated.

Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.

A method of forming an invisible indicium on an article that comprises an outer opaque layer and an inner, laser-imageable layer, which comprises (5) irradiating the article with a laser, whereby the laser radiation passes through the opaque layer, and causes the laser-imageable layer to change colour. The article can be scanned, as a security check.

An End of Service Life (ESLI) and Residual Life Indicator (RLI), for gas masks and other filters. The indicator includes a solid conduit with one end closed by a transparent material and the other by a porous material which allows gas to permeate through it. In one implementation of the ESLI, a fine powder that can react chromogenically is placed in the conduit. The powder is free to move in the conduit, but it cannot escape. The porous end of the conduit is inserted into the filter to the desired depth. When a target gas reaches the porous end, it enters the conduit, reacts chromogenically with the powder and changes color. The powder can be viewed through the conduit by tilting the filter to cause the powder to gravitate into the transparent end. A color chart is attached to the filter near the transparent end to facilitate a determination of whether the chromogenic powder has undergone a color change or not. In another implementation of the indicator, the porous material includes a reagent that can react with the target gas and release a reactive gas. The transparent end of the conduit is coated internally with a chromogenic reagent that changes its color when either the target gas or the gas produced in the reaction reaches it. The ESLI/RLI may be inserted into the filter from different directions to accommodate practical filter or mask designs. Two or more ESLI/RLI may be inserted into the filter from different directions to alert the user to different levels of filter consumption. The ESLI/RLI may contain more than one chromophore to alert users of the penetration of different gases or classes of gases.

The present invention provides a color image processing apparatus which reduces the amount of color materials consumed that are used to form a color image with reference to an index with high utility. To accomplish this, a color image forming apparatus of the present invention is a color image processing apparatus which applies image processing to image data of an input color image, and outputs the processed image data, and which changes tone values of respective colors of the color image, so that a conversion result obtained when image data of the color image are converted into amounts of color materials becomes an amount based on a reference conversion result, the reference conversion result being obtained when the image data are color-converted by a predetermined color conversion method and the converted data is further converted into an amount of a color material.

Disclosed is an assay device for use in the determination of the presence of at least one analyte of interest in a liquid sample; the device comprising a reaction zone in which a reagent reacts with the analyte of interest and a bibulous member which, when contacted with the liquid sample, draws liquid therefrom towards the reaction zone; the bibulous member comprising means to change colour when wetted by the sample.

The invention relates to An X-ray exposure indicator device comprising a solid X-ray sensitive material that upon X-ray exposure undergoes a chromatic change, wherein the exposure indicator device does not significantly change color when subjected to UV or visible radiation.