Image appearance framework and applications for digital image creation and display
AssigneeTektronix, Inc.
InventorWayne Williams
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide tools that users may implement to quantify an artistic “Appearance” or “Look” of an image or set of images and carry the Look forward across multiple scenes of a collection. Additionally, the tools allow the same Look to be preserved when viewing the image or images on a wide variety of playback devices, such as cinema, television, computer monitor, and hand-held devices.
Claims16
A test and measurement instrument for viewing and controlling a set of related moving images, the instrument comprising:
- a set of inputs including a first set of related moving images, a second set of related moving images, and a set of parameters including at least color parameters, device parameters, and view parameters;
- a first image appearance processor structured to convert at least one of the first or second set of related moving images from a set of device coordinates for a first display device to a set of image appearance coordinates that account for appearance effects of human vision system adaptations;
- a qualifier having an input coupled to an output of the image appearance processor and structured to apply user defined qualifications that cause the instrument to select or deselect one or more of a plurality of attributes of the sets of inputs;
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- a second image appearance processor structured to convert an image to be displayed by the test and measurement instrument from the set of image appearance coordinates used by the first image appearance processor to a set of device coordinates for a second device;
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- a display output structured to generate a visual display of the output from the second image appearance processor.
A method for creating a set of viewing characteristics of a set of related moving images in a framework that accounts for appearance effects of human vision system adaptations, the method comprising:
- receiving the set of related moving images;
- retrieving a set of parameters including at least color parameters, device parameters, and view parameters;
- converting the set of related moving images from a set of device coordinates for a first display device to a set of image appearance coordinates that account for appearance effects of human vision system adaptations;
- accepting one or more user defined qualifications;
- applying the user defined qualifications to select or deselect one or more of a plurality of attributes of the converted set of related moving images;
- generating an output image based at least in part by the selected plurality of attributes;
- re-converting the output image to be displayed from the set of image appearance to a set of device coordinates for a second display device;
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- generating the output image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.