Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Color space conversion in the analog domain
- Patent Title (中): 模拟域中的色彩空间转换
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Application No.: US10874505Application Date: 2004-06-22
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Publication No.: US07812870B2Publication Date: 2010-10-12
- Inventor: Hubert Utz , Detlef Schweng
- Applicant: Hubert Utz , Detlef Schweng
- Applicant Address: DE Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern
- Assignee: Digital Imaging Systems GmbH
- Current Assignee: Digital Imaging Systems GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern
- Agency: Saile Ackerman LLC
- Agent Stephen B. Ackerman
- Priority: EP04392027 20040614
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N9/68 ; G09G5/02

Abstract:
Systems and related methods have been achieved to convert in an analog domain the output of color image sensors into another color space. A chosen implementation converts the output of red, green, blue and white image sensors to the YcrCb color space, wherein the white image sensors are either extended dynamic range (XDR) image sensors or are of the same type as the other image sensors but have a larger size. The output of the white pixels can be used without conversion directly for the luminance Y value, thus achieving a very simple method for a conversion to YCbCr color space. Analog amplifiers, assigned to each of the red, green, and blue image sensors, have a gain according to the matrix describing the conversion from RGB to CbCr. Analog adders, assigned to Cb and Cr are adding the coefficients required for the computation of Cb and Cr. Finally the values of Y, Cb and Cr are converted to digital values. White pixels are advantageous but not required using the present invention. The present invention is also applicable for conversion to other color spaces as e.g. YIQ, YUV, CMYK, HIS, HSV, etc.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050285955A1 Imaging sensors Public/Granted day:2005-12-29
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