Color Adjustment Apparatus Segmentation for Vividness

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current video-display systems struggle to present vivid colors in natural images due to complex backgrounds, as manual adjustments in RGB, YCbCr, or HIS formats often distort color coordinates, failing to meet user visual demands.

Innovation Solution

A color adjustment apparatus with a calculation unit that divides input color signals into groups and generates calculation signals to adjust contrast and complementary colors, using predetermined color values to enhance vividness without affecting other color presentations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If manual adjustment methods are used in RGB, YCbCr, or HIS formats to enhance color vividness, then color presentation can be improved, but color coordinates become distorted and other colors are affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor vividnessVSAvoidcolor coordinate accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the color adjustment process by dividing color signals into different color groups (first color group and second color group with contrast or complementary relationships). By processing each color group separately with targeted adjustment parameters, the system enhances vividness without causing cross-color distortion, thereby resolving the contradiction between color vividness and color coordinate accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If color adjustment is performed on natural images with complex backgrounds, then visual perception can be enhanced, but color distortion occurs due to interdependence of color coordinates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual perception qualityVSAvoidcolor presentation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by using judgment units to identify specific regions or color ranges within the image that require adjustment. Instead of uniformly adjusting all colors, the system selectively applies enhancement to specific color groups based on their contrast or complementary relationships, thereby improving visual perception while maintaining accuracy in other color regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If single color adjustment is performed to meet user visual demands, then one color can be optimized, but other colors are affected and overall color balance is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesingle color optimizationVSAvoidcolor balance stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through judgment units that continuously monitor color signal characteristics and adjustment effects. Based on this feedback, the system dynamically adjusts enhancement parameters for different color groups, ensuring that optimization of one color does not compromise the stability of other colors. The feedback loop maintains overall color balance while achieving precise optimization of target colors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS7777925B2Apparatus and method for color adjustment
Publication Date: 2010.08.17 REALTEK SEMICON CORP
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a color adjustment apparatus and a method thereof. The color adjustment apparatus according to the present invention includes a calculation unit and an adjustment unit. The calculation unit receives an input color signal, and divides the input color signal into color groups and performs a calculation operation thereon to generate at least two calculation signals. The adjustment unit receives the calculation signals and the input color signal, and adjusts at least one of contrast group and complement group of the input color signal according to at least two of the calculation signals and a predetermined color value to generate an output color signal for a video-display apparatus. Accordingly, viewers can enjoy better visual experience.