109 results about "Visual sensitivity" patented technology

In a color display device, when using white (W) sub-pixels in addition to subpixels of red (R) and green (G) plus blue (B) without increasing a wiring line number, the per-color pixel number in a unit area decreases so that the image resolution is deteriorated. The area and number of subpixels are adjusted in accordance with the visual sensitivity or luminosity required. Practically, the area of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels which are relatively low in luminosity is set to be about two times greater than the area of green (G) and white (W) subpixels that are relatively high in luminosity while letting the number of green (G) and white (W) subpixels be twice the number of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels. A larger subpixel is configured from a plurality of unit subpixels. A smaller subpixel is formed of a one unit subpixel.

A phosphor of which emission wavelength can be optionally set in a region with high human visual sensitivity to make it possible to enhance lumlinance in the region, and which has an excitation band for light in a wavelength region emitted from the aforesaid light emitting portion, a production method of the same, illumination and an LED using the aforesaid phosphor are provided. As raw materials, for example, Ca3N2, CaO, Al2O3, AlN, Si3N4, and SiO2 an Eu2O3 are prepared, and each of the raw material is weighed so that a mole ratio of each element is, for example, (Ca, Eu): Al: Si=1:1:1, mixed and prepared under a nitrogen atmosphere, fired at 1500° C. under the nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a main production phase of a phosphor expressed by CaAlSiN3:Eu, and by controlling a compounding amount of each raw material at the time of raw material preparation, the oxygen concentration in the constitution of the production phase and mol concentration of Eu doping are controlled to optionally set the emission wavelength of the production phase.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional image objective quality evaluation method, which comprises the following steps: respectively carrying out wavelet transformation on left view point images and right view point images of undistorted three-dimensional images and distorted three-dimensional images; extracting characteristic values of each sub band; carrying out similarity measurement on the characteristic values; determining the weight factors of each sub band by contrast sensitive functions; then, realizing the evaluation on the three-dimensional sensing quality through evaluating the absolute difference image similarity of left images and right images of the undistorted three-dimensional images and the distorted three-dimensional images; and finally, combining the quality of the left images and the right images and the three-dimensional sensing quality to obtain the final evaluation results of the three-dimensional image quality. The invention has the advantages that the human eye visual characteristics such as human visual sensitivity bandpass, the multi-channel effect, the three-dimensional sensation and the like are utilized, the three-dimensional sensation is simultaneously evaluated on the basis of the evaluation on the quality of the left view point images and the right view point images, the influence of the three-dimensional sensation in the three-dimensional images on the final three-dimensional image quality is merged into an evaluation model, and the correlativity of the objective evaluation results and the subjective sensation is improved.

The invention administers an objective clinical test to an eye that measures the visual sensitivity of the superior retina and the inferior retina, by alternately presenting a stimulus pair comprising a shaped superior light stimulus and a shaped inferior light stimulus that are horizontal mirror images of one another and have shapes encompassing visual field defects. The shaped superior and inferior light stimuli stimulate pupillary responses whose amplitudes are measured. A cycle-averaged pupillary response balance and a luminance ratio are computed for each presentation of a stimulus pair. A stimulus pair response curve is computed by fitting cycle-averaged pupillary response balances to a sigmoid function of the luminance ratios. A balanced luminance ratio at which the cycle-averaged pupillary response balance is equal to about zero is computed from the sigmoid function. The balanced luminance ratio is indicative of the presence and location of retinal nerve damage.

Provided is a multicolor display apparatus including a plurality of organic light-emitting devices each including a pair of electrodes of an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes and including a light-emitting layer. The viewing angle characteristics of the organic light-emitting device showing an emission color with a highest visual sensitivity is such that a peak wavelength of emission spectrum and a peak wavelength of multiple interference spectrum due to the organic light-emitting device are offset with respect to each other so that the color shift of a display image on the multicolor display apparatus depending on a viewing angle is suppressed.

A display 10 according to one embodiment of the invention includes a display panel having an active matrix substrate and a color filter substrate, a lighting unit for the display panel, ambient light photosensors 321 to 326, a controller that controls luminous intensity of the lighting unit based on outputs from the ambient light photosensors 321 to 326, and a spectral sensitivity adjustor provided at a position on the color filter substrate corresponding to the ambient light photosensors 321 to 326 in order to make the spectral sensitivity of the ambient light photosensors 321 to 326 match human visual sensitivity. The spectral sensitivity adjustor may be a color filter or a polarizing filter. The display thus structured automatically and stably controls on / off of its backlights depending on the brightness of the surroundings with a sensitivity corresponding to human visual sensitivity.

The invention discloses a method for measuring electric network voltage flicker, and discloses a high-accuracy rapid flicker calculating method aiming at a non-integral cycle low sampling rate by taking account of errors probably caused by harmonic waves and electric network frequency. The core of the calculating method is that: a low fixed sampling rate is adopted to perform non-integral cycle sampling on electric network voltage waveforms, a cosine window is used for performing a fast Fourier transform algorithm (FFT), then the flicker frequency component is accurately extracted through a double-spectral line interpolation algorithm and a frequency spectrum searching algorithm, and the instantaneous flicker visual sensitivity is obtained through calculation. By using the method, under the condition of non-integral cycle low sampling rate, the errors caused by frequency spectrum leakage and harmonic wave aliasing are overcome, the frequency resolution is improved, the complexity of flicker calculation is effectively simplified, and a flicker measurement result is acquired quickly. By using the method, the performance requirement of hardware of an analog-digital converter, a processor and the like is reduced, thus the cost of a flicker measuring instrument is reduced, and simultaneously the measuring accuracy is improved; and besides, the method is applicable to fast low-cost measurement of the electric network voltage flicker, and has a very good effect.

The invention discloses a multi-view image color correction method based on visual perception, comprising the following steps of: firstly extracting significance distribution maps of a target image and a source image; then extracting visual attention areas of the target image and the source image by estimating a Gaussian mixture model; obtaining accurately matched pixel point pair sets of the source image and the target image by a parallax matching algorithm; obtaining correction matrixes of the visual attention areas by a linear regression algorithm; obtaining a final correction matrix by adopting linear weighting; and finally further refining a visually sensitive area of a correction image. The invention ensures the accuracy of multi-view image color correction and also enhances the robustness of the multi-view image color correction method and the visual comfort level of the correction image.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for decoding digital video or motion picture signals with error concealment to prevent or minimize degradation of the picture quality. When corruption occurs, the method determines whether error concealment is needed according to a preset criterion. If so, motion vectors for the corrupt region are calculated using the motion vectors and rates of change of motion of current blocks in the current frame and / or old blocks in a previous frame according to a best matching block selection process. The method also determines if the “time” relative motion of content is small by defining a percentage use parameter. In some cases, once the error concealment is complete, the “weight” or visual sensitivity of the restored block is decreased in order to reduce boundary artifact effects. This is accomplished by a quantization mask employing the human visual system (HVS) concept.

The invention relates to an urban river-crossing bridge traffic landscape design method based on multi-frequency color information. Yellow and black or blue and white lamp pole facade marking lines are arranged on the lower edges of two sides of lamp poles, at the interval of 25 m to 35 m, of a bridge; transverse visual illusion marking lines are arranged at the positions, corresponding to the yellow and black or blue and white lamp pole facade marking lines, of the road surface; road surface protruding road marks are arranged at the interval of 12.5 m to 17.5 m, and therefore the space intermediate frequency visual information flow is jointly formed. Yellow and black or blue and white road side facade marking lines are arranged on the lower edge and the top of curb stone at intervals of 1.5 m to 3 m, and therefore the space high frequency visual information flow is formed; a set of road surface transverse white folding lines is arranged every four lamp poles in the advancing direction, and yellow or blue bridge handrails are arranged on the road side, so that the space low-frequency visual information flow is formed. The multi-frequency color information flow can effectively improve the speed perception, the distance perception and the visual sensitivity under high and low illuminance of a driver in the vehicle driving process, and unification of urban river-crossing bridge traffic landscape coordination and vehicle driving safety is achieved.

The invention administers an objective clinical test to an eye that measures the visual sensitivity of the superior retina and the inferior retina, by alternately presenting a stimulus pair comprising a shaped superior light stimulus and a shaped inferior light stimulus that are horizontal mirror images of one another and have shapes encompassing visual field defects. The shaped superior and inferior light stimuli stimulate pupillary responses whose amplitudes are measured. A cycle-averaged pupillary response balance and a luminance ratio are computed for each presentation of a stimulus pair. A stimulus pair response curve is computed by fitting cycle-averaged pupillary response balances to a sigmoid function of the luminance ratios. A balanced luminance ratio at which the cycle-averaged pupillary response balance is equal to about zero is computed from the sigmoid function. The balanced luminance ratio is indicative of the presence and location of retinal nerve damage.

The invention discloses a detection method for small objects in a visible light image. The detection method comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing a motion conformity model and carrying out feature extraction by simulating the sensitivity of human visual sense to the color, the direction and the motion features to establish a visual attention mechanism model; selecting an object detection mechanism and choosing the visual attention mechanism model by means of image visual features in different working modes, thereby carrying out object detection in different working modes; and completing object centroid positioning. Due to carrying out track detection by means of the visual features of an object, the detection method makes full use of visual sensitivity to the color, the gray scale, the direction and the motion and adopts different combinations centralizing the visual attention mechanism model to realize the detection of the small objects in multiple working modes.

The invention relates to a perceptual video coding method based on the saliency and just noticeable distortion and belongs to the field of video coding. The method is characterized by including calculating a saliency value and just noticeable distortion value of a video frame image to be processed; adjusting the just noticeable distortion value according to the saliency value of the video frame image, and acquiring a saliency just noticeable distortion threshold; filtering the residual in the video coding process according to the saliency just noticeable distortion threshold, and acquiring the perceptual video code on the basis of the saliency and just noticeable distortion. The method is reasonable in design, on the basis of an HEVC frame, two visual perceptual models, namely a visual attention model and a visual sensitivity model are combined to form an S-JND (saliency-just noticeable distortion) algorithm, visual redundancy of video data can be further excavated and removed, on the premise of not affecting the subjective quality, the video coding rate is reduced effectively, and the video coding efficiency is improved.

A method for enhancing video or other multimedia in order to achieve a closer-to-movie theater viewing experience. The enhancement method can be applied to YUV or other video formats which are used for TV or digital media. The method provides a curve with at least one inflection point such that at least one region has a concave upward arc and another region has a concave downward arc. The improved curve provides relatively less contrast in relatively dark regions and relatively more contrast in relatively bright regions. By taking into account the visual sensitivity to various luminance levels, a neutral point is selected to be located at a relatively dark point. To the darker side of the neutral point, luminance is suppressed. To the brighter side of the neutral point, luminance is enhanced. This luminance-mapping curve is applied to the luminance (Y) signal so as to enhance both brightness and contrast.

When forming a test chart for investigating output characteristic relating to yellow color agent, a printer outputs yellow color agent in a plurality of densities that correspond to various density levels and also outputs cyan color agent in a fixed and maximum density. Patches in gradations from cyan to green are formed by overlapping the yellow color agent and the cyan color agent. The patches are formed with respect to a surrounding area that is formed by outputting the cyan color agent in the fixed and maximum density. Accordingly, the colors of the patches are easier to distinguish than when the patches are formed from yellow only. Visual calibration can be easily performed even with the yellow color agent that has a low visual sensitivity.

A Vision Thermalization, “VT” light-to-heat transducer, versatile video transformation system, via Biophysics Resonance of forehead cells with thin film transistors infrared “display” (1k×0.0015C×640×480 VGA) and alternative image processing methodology thereof to convert, for the sightless and visually impaired, light waves, or TV received signals or 2D / 3D video camera signals into infrared patterns of sensible heat waves such as produced by the product of voltage and current in an active matrix of thin film transistors (AM-TFT), typically used with liquid crystal displays, in order to exploit the viper-like thermal vision sensibility of 10 parts / million (0.003C / 305K) and biophysics resonance of thermo regulating amino acids.

The invention discloses an infrared and visible light image fusion method based on a multi-scale contrast ratio. On the basis of the multi-scale contrast ratio obtained by calculation, according to different decomposition detail ranges of each scale, the fusion weight of an infrared image and a visual light image in each layer of scale information is independently determined, a corresponding multi-scale information fusion strategy is designed, and therefore, an infrared and visible light fusion image has a better visual effect. A contrast sensitivity function which represents human visual characteristics is combined to extract the multi-scale contrast ratio which exhibits visual sensitivity, visual sensitivity information is highlighted, so that the fusion image has a better visual effect, and the perception of an observer for a scene and the quick identification ability of the observer for an important target can be enhanced. By use of the method, while the contrast sensitivity function which represents human visual characteristics is combined, the mask effect of a visual contrast ratio is considered, visual sensitivity characteristics are effectively utilized to guide a fusion process, and the visual effect of the fusion image is further enhanced.

A first prism 11a and a second prism 12a are joined together on a face-to-face basis. A dichroic mirror 13a is interposed into the junction plane to reflect only G-light. A first imaging device 111a receives the reflected light (G-light) with high sensitivity. In this manner, there is constructed an inexpensive light receiving unit 10a having the same visual sensitivity characteristic as eyes of a person. The light receiving unit 10a is disposed in an image taking apparatus.

A driving circuit that reduces chip size of a source driver while maintaining image quality when image data is configured by multiple bits. The source driver provided in connection with a timing controller that converts image data into color data. The source driver displays an image by controlling pixel density of a liquid crystal panel. The source driver is divided into plural regions in units of pseudo linear elements to perform a gamma correcting operation based on a gamma characteristic. In the source driver a GMA voltage for each region is divided by resistive elements arranged between input signal lines. With respect to variation of plural divided GMA voltages, variation of the maximum high density region becomes coarser than variation of the maximum low density region in compliance with visual sensitivity of the density, thus reducing the number of input data lines of the source driver.

The present invention provides a driving circuit that reduces chip size of a source driver while maintaining image quality when image data is configured by multiple bits. The source driver provided in connection with a timing controller that converts image data into color data. The source driver displays an image by controlling pixel density of a liquid crystal panel. The source driver is divided into plural regions in units of pseudo linear elements to perform a gamma correcting operation based on a gamma characteristic. In the source driver a GMA voltage for each region is divided by resistive elements arranged between input signal lines. With respect to variation of plural divided GMA voltages, variation of the maximum high density region becomes coarser than variation of the maximum low density region in compliance with visual sensitivity of the density, a driving voltage is selected from a plurality of GMA voltages, and then the invention controls the pixel density of a liquid crystal panel based on the selected GMA voltage, and then transmits the images to the liquid panel.

In a color display device, when using white (W) sub-pixels in addition to subpixels of red (R) and green (G) plus blue (B) without increasing a wiring line number, the per-color pixel number in a unit area decreases so that the image resolution is deteriorated. The area and number of subpixels are adjusted in accordance with the visual sensitivity or luminosity required. Practically, the area of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels which are relatively low in luminosity is set to be about two times greater than the area of green (G) and white (W) subpixels that are relatively high in luminosity while letting the number of green (G) and white (W) subpixels be twice the number of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels. A larger subpixel is configured from a plurality of unit subpixels. A smaller subpixel is formed of a one unit subpixel.

The invention relates to a virtual reality superspeed real-time rendering method, and the method comprises the steps: A, building environmental parameters to build an image model, carrying out the interactive control of a camera, enabling the near peripheral region and far peripheral region of a view field to be divided into three rendering regions with different resolutions, and enabling the built image model to generate a Perlin noise height field; B, carrying out the sampling through a projection grid, and building a virtual figure; C, obtaining the data of top points in the virtual figure; D, enabling the data of all top points to be mapped in a coordinate system; E, calculating texture coordinates; F, loading the texture coordinates; G, mixing various types of texture colors in all rendering regions, and completing the rendering. According to the invention, the method employs the rendering regions and distributes different resolution proportions to match with different visual sensitivity in the view field of a user, reduces the operation cost by several times, saves the operation resources and power of a computer, and achieves the real-time superspeed rendering. The method draws a water surface with a real effect through the pixel rendering and top point rendering.

The present invention tests and / or trains the visual sensitivity of a subject using adaptable visual indicia. One or more visual indicia possessing a visual trait are displayed to the subject. The displayed visual indicia possessing a visual trait may be adjusted to determine when a subject can and cannot be perceived by the subject. A displayed visual indicia may be adjusted in its size, rate of movement, direction of movement, location of display, duration of display, or other characteristic. To determine whether a subject correctly perceived the visual trait possessed by a displayed visual indicia, an input may be received from the subject. If an input received corresponds to the visual trait possessed by the displayed visual indicia, the subject may be determined to have correctly perceived the displayed visual indicia and the visual trait.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; first to fourth pixels arranged in a matrix pattern on the first substrate, the fourth pixel having an area smaller than each of the first and second pixels and larger than the third pixel; a second substrate facing the first substrate; first to fourth color filter patterns formed on the second substrate and respectively corresponding to the first to fourth pixels, wherein the first to fourth color filter patterns have green, blue, white and red colors, respectively; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates.

A printing apparatus includes: a unit that generates test pattern data considering visual characteristics, on the basis of a test pattern grayscale value determined on the basis of visual sensitivity; an N-value conversion unit that converts the test pattern data generated by the unit that generates test pattern data considering visual characteristics into an N value (N≧2: N is a natural number); a printing data generating unit that generates test pattern printing data on the basis of the N-value test pattern data output from the N-value conversion unit; a printing unit that performs printing on the basis of the test pattern printing data generated by the printing data generating unit; an output density detecting unit that detects the output density of a test pattern printed by the printing unit; a printer input / output density information generating unit that generates printer input / output density information for correcting input density, on the basis of the output density of the test pattern detected by the output density detecting unit; an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data composed of M values (M>N≧2: M is a natural number); and an input density correcting unit that corrects the input density of the image data acquired by the image data acquiring unit, on the basis of the printer input / output density information generated by the printer input / output density information generating unit.

Provided is a multicolor display apparatus including a plurality of organic light-emitting devices each including a pair of electrodes of an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes and including a light-emitting layer. The viewing angle characteristics of the organic light-emitting device showing an emission color with a highest visual sensitivity is such that a peak wavelength of emission spectrum and a peak wavelength of multiple interference spectrum due to the organic light-emitting device are offset with respect to each other so that the color shift of a display image on the multicolor display apparatus depending on a viewing angle is suppressed.

In an image reading apparatus for reading a color document as a monochrome image, an image forming apparatus of the invention includes a composite light source that irradiates the color document and includes plural light sources different in spectral distribution, a sensor to detect the intensity of a reflected light from the color document, a light emission ratio setting unit to changeably set light emission ratios different for the respective light sources, and a light source control unit to control effective light amounts of the plural light sources with the set light emission ratios. According to the image forming apparatus of the invention, when the color document is monochromatically read, the reading is performed with the brightness close to the human visual sensitivity, the user can changeably set color sensitivity, and uneven density can be reduced.

The invention relates to a method and device for suppressing retransmission. The corresponding method comprises the following steps of: judging whether visual sensitivity of a TS (Transport Stream) in a first RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) message is lower than a threshold value or not and discarding the TS with the visual sensitivity lower than the threshold value if a judgment result is definite; and replacing the first RTP message with a virtual RTP message if all the TSs in the first RTP message are discarded, wherein the virtual RTP message has the same serial number as the first RTPmessage. By filling the virtual RTP messages in the current RTP messages discarding all the TSs, and ensuring the serial numbers of the RTP messages to be consecutive, retransmission can be suppressed while video packages are discarded without introducing an extended private protocol or confirming reordered starting serial numbers, and expansibility and generalization are improved.