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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael A Kutner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358164 ; 358169 ;
Abstract
An apparatus, including a lookup table memory, for gamma correcting a digital video signal based on the assumption that for small gamma, gamma correction is a linear function so that for a digital video input signal value x a gamma correction value d to be added to x can be calculated as a function of an opertor selected variable a according to the formulae: