605 results about "Color contrast" patented technology

A lighting apparatus for emitting white light including a semiconductor light source emitting radiation with a peak at from about 250 nm to about 500 nm; a first phosphor having a peak emission between about 450 and 550 nm; and a second phosphor having a peak emission between about 615 and 670 nm; wherein the overall emission spectrum of the lighting apparatus has a depression between about 550 and 615 nm, said depression extending to between about 5% and 25% of the highest intensity of the emission spectrum of the lighting apparatus in the region from 400 to 700 nm. In this apparatus, the red-green color contrast is increased versus the referent illuminant.

A surgical suture is made of an elongate, hollow braid of high strength fibers. The braid defines an elongate, longitudinally-extending, central chamber that is open and without any core material extending therein so that, when a surgeon's knot is tied with the suture, the cross-sectional shape of the braid collapses upon itself and is reduced in size in response to pressures experienced when the knot is tightened thereby producing a low profile knot that resists slippage. Preferably, the braid is of a size corresponding to a USP size 5-0 to USP size 7 suture and has one or more, preferably a pair, of color contrasting monofilaments woven therein to enhance suture visibility. Methods of making a flattened suture and of utilizing the high strength suture to maintain body tissues in an engaged position to promote healing are also provided.

Described is a system for rapid object detection combining structural information with bio-inspired attentional mechanisms. The system oversegments an input image into a set of superpixels, where each superpixel comprises a plurality of pixels. For each superpixel, a bounding box defining a region of the input image representing a detection hypothesis is determined. An average residual saliency (ARS) is calculated for the plurality of pixels belonging to each superpixel. Each detection hypothesis that is out of a range of a predetermined threshold value for object size is eliminated. Next, each remaining detection hypothesis having an ARS below a predetermined threshold value is eliminated. Then, color contrast is calculated for the region defined by the bounding box for each remaining detection hypothesis. Each detection hypothesis having a color contrast below a predetermined threshold is eliminated. Finally, the remaining detection hypotheses are output to a classifier for object recognition.

An improved lens with Rugate filter specifically designed to be worn in prescription and non-prescription glasses, contact lenses, intraocular lenses and sunglasses, and to provide protection against macular degeneration by reducing harmful visible blue light transmission and ocular photochemical damage. The lens at least includes a single lens layer with a Rugate filter deposited thereon to selectively block visible blue light. Other layers may be added including a polarizing layer, dielectric layer and/or color tint in a lens sandwich configuration, to additionally give a high degree of UVA and UVB protection, color contrast, and glare reduction. The Rugate filter is a stop band which yields an exceptional light transmission profile under all light conditions, thereby maximizing protection as well as clarity of vision. In the multi-layer embodiment, all of the lens layers provide comprehensive protection for preventing macular degeneration, cataracts and other ocular injuries, yet maintain a balanced light transmission profile for visual acuity.

A high strength abrasion resistant surgical suture material with improved tie down characteristics is color coded for visualization and identification purposes. The suture features a multifilament cover formed of strands of ultra high molecular weight long chain polyethylene braided with polybutylene terephthalate. Selected fibers in the cover may be provided in a color contrasting with the other cover fibers to provide an identifiable trace. The cover surrounds a core formed of twisted strands of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene. The suture, provided in a #2 size, has the strength of #5 Ethibond, is ideally suited for most orthopedic procedures, and can be attached to a suture anchor or a curved needle.

The present invention executes color correction that improves the feeling of depth of a 2D image with ease and by using a preexisting device.

Input image data is first converted into brightness information by a brightness information calculation portion. The interest level within the image is then estimated by an interest level estimation portion based on that information. The vanishing point is then estimated by a vanishing point estimation portion. Next, a depth estimation portion estimates the degree of depth based on the distance from the vanishing point to a pixel i and the interest level of the pixel i, and calculates a depth correction gain value. A corrected image, obtained by controlling a depth correction image process based on the depth correction gain value, is converted to a predetermined image format and outputted by an output portion. Accordingly, by linking an interest level based on the brightness contrast/color contrast/blurriness amount with the depth estimation based on the vanishing point, the occurrence of abnormalities felt with images that do not properly match up with the perspective structure of the vanishing point, images that do not match the visual impression of humans, and so on can be reduced, making it possible to achieve a more natural and improved feeling of depth.

A plurality of medical syringes, each of the syringes having a barrel engaging a plunger and a cannula. The plunger is movable in translation within the barrel and the cannula is fixed at one end of the barrel, and is in fluid communication with the barrel. The barrel is made of a transparent material and has graduation indicia on its side wall. The plunger is of a non-transparent color contrasting with the graduation indicia whereby, the indicia is easily seen against the contrasting background of the plunger. The syringes each have a unique plunger color whereby, each of the medical syringes is able to be selected by color and associated with a particular medication or use.

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.

The efficiency and color contrast of a lighting device may be improved by using wavelength shifting material, such as a phosphor, to absorb less desired wavelengths and transmit more desired wavelengths. A double-notch reflective filter may pass desired wavelengths such as red and green, while returning or reflecting less desired wavelengths (blue and yellow) away from an optical exit back toward wavelength shifting material and re-emitted as light of more desirable wavelengths.

The invention discloses an organic light emitting display panel and a display device. A part, near a non-display area, in a display area for light emitting display is defined as a display area edge, and a pixel on the display area edge is provided with a first capacitor related to a grid of a driving transistor in the pixel; a part, except the display area edge, in the display area is defined as a display area remainder, and a pixel on the display area remainder is provided with a second capacitor related to a grid of a driving transistor in the pixel; a capacitance value of the first capacitor is set to be different from that of the second capacitor, namely, the first capacitor in the pixel on the display area edge and the second capacitor in the pixel on the display area remainder are designed differently; the brightness of the pixel on the display area edge is lower than that of the pixel on the display area remainder, then the color contrast between the display area edge and the non-display area can be reduced, and a sawtooth effect and a color edge effect of the organic light emitting display panel can be relieved.

The invention discloses a significant object detection method based on sparse subspace clustering and low-order expression. The method comprises the steps of: 1, carrying out super pixel segmentation and clustering on an input image; 2, extracting the color, texture and edge characteristics of each super pixel in clusters, and constructing cluster characteristic matrixes; 3, ranking all super pixel characteristics according to the magnitude of color contrast, and constructing a dictionary; according to the dictionary, constructing a combined low-order expression model, solving the model and decomposing the characteristic matrixes of the clusters so as to obtain low-order expression coefficients, and calculating significant factors of the clusters; and 5, mapping the significant value of each cluster into the input image according the spatial position, and obtaining a significant map of the input image. According to the invention, the significant objects relatively large in size in the image can be completely and consistently detected, the noise in a background is inhibited, and the robustness of significant object detection of the image with the complex background is improved. The significant object detection method is applicable to image segmentation, object identification, image restoration and self-adaptive image compression.

A polarized optical element comprising a polarized optical part is dyed so that the optical part exhibits a curve of spectral transmittance in a wavelength range comprised between 400 and 700 nm comprising: i) at least one relative maximum at a wavelength comprised between 400 and 510 nm, and ii) at least one relative minimum at a wavelength comprised between 510 to 625 nm, wherein the ratio between the value of the factor of spectral transmittance at said at least one relative maximum and the value of the factor of spectral transmittance at said at least one relative minimum is of at least 1.3, and wherein the ratio between the value of the factor of spectral transmittance at a wavelength of 700 nm and the value of the factor of spectral transmittance at said at least one relative minimum is of at least 3.0. Advantageously, such a polarized optical element is both polarized to reduce glare and provides the wearer with enhanced visual acuity, especially an increased sensitivity to the red and blue colors so as to meet the color and traffic signal recognition requirements of the international standards.

The present invention relates to a device for observing a sentinel lymph node (SLN) in a human body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a device for observing an SLN by detecting near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence caused by a fluorescent material such as indocyanine green (ICG) at the SLN and a method for detecting NIR fluorescence at an SLN. Particularly, in the implementation of a composite image obtained by reproducing a fluorescent material such as ICG and NIR fluorescence emitted by excitation light together with a visible light image, it is possible to detect an SLN with high accuracy through a color contrast method and/or a temporal modulation method using an NIR fluorescence image signal and a visible reflection light image signal.

A color filter to increase the low light sensitivity of an image sensor. The color filter has two narrow band color filters and one wide band filter. Also disclosed is a unique way of processing a tri-stimulus signal to dynamically adjust color contrast depending on the illumination conditions.

The invention provides a suspect vehicle inspection and control method and system. The method comprises real-time acquiring a video stream and snap-shooting a vehicle image; subjecting the snap-shot image and a suspect vehicle sample image to color contrast to determine color similarity, and if the color similarity exceeds a set color similarity threshold, going to the next step; subjecting the snap-shot image and the suspect vehicle sample image to auxiliary characteristic contrast, to determine auxiliary characteristic similarity, the auxiliary characteristics including at least one of texture characteristics and shape characteristics; and comprehensively judging, and if the auxiliary characteristic similarity is larger than a set threshold, determining the comprehensive similarity by the auxiliary characteristic similarity or allowing the comprehensive similarity to depend on the auxiliary characteristic similarity. The vehicle image snap-shooting can be carried out by virtual coil triggering. Template match based on color can also be adopted to extract the auxiliary characteristics from a match region of the snap-shot image to be contrasted with the suspect vehicle sample image. The invention can realize rapid, efficient and accurate inspection and control effects, and save manpower and material resources.

The invention discloses a natural sense color fusion method based on color contrast enhancement, which includes that at the same time, a frame of optical registering grayscale image is respectively extracted from an infrared light video and a visible light video; linear operation is performed on the two frames of grayscale images, and the two frames of grayscale images are mapped to a luminosity ab (Lab) color space to obtain a pseudo-color fusion image of a two-waveband image, and a fused coefficient with optimal effect is selected by an observer; a group of pre-stored white light reference images is used for performing color transfer on the pseudo-color fusion image, and a reference image is selected by the observer; the selected reference image is used for performing natural sense color correction with the color contrast enhancement on the pseudo-color fusion image; and the reference image and the coefficient which are obtained in the previous step are used for performing rapid natural sense color fusion with the color contrast enhancement on the infrared light video and the visible light video. The fusion method can solve the problem that target and background color contrast of the natural sense color fusion of a two-waveband video is low in the prior art.

The invention provides an object significance detecting method based on color contrast and color distribution. The steps of the object significance detecting method based on the color contrast and the color distribution include that S1: an input image is divided into small size super-pixels, average color and position in the super-pixels are calculated; S2: the center-periphery color contrast of each super-pixel is calculated, the color contrast value is multiplied by a priori distribution, and at last color contrast significance diagram is obtained by using a significance smooth operation; S3: color distribution variance of each super-pixel is calculated, and thereby a color distribution significance diagram is obtained; S4: the color distribution significance diagrams obtained by the S2 and the S3 are multiplied and refined by using MeanShift division, edges of an object are enabled to be more fine, and the final significance diagram is output. According to the object significance detecting method based on the color contrast and the color distribution, the significance diagram obtained can evenly highlight the significant object in the significance diagram, the edge details of the object are well retained, the background interference is restrained, and the following up processes such as the target object division are benefited.