Technique for enabling color blind persons to distinguish between various colors
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1. A method for allowing a user to adjust a display of color-coded information, comprising the steps of:
- presenting a display having color-coded information, allowing the user to select a color range, identifying color-coded information in the display that is associated with an unselected color range, and processing the identified color-coded information to enhance the selected color range, wherein processing comprises at least one of adjusting the contrast, the color saturation, and the brightness of the unselected color range.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for processing data representative of a full color image. Such systems may comprise the steps of assisting a color blind person to indicate portions of an image which to their color-deficient vision are indistinguishable, and altering the image to cause those portions to become distinguisable and identifiable.
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1. A method for allowing a user to adjust a display of color-coded information, comprising the steps of:
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presenting a display having color-coded information, allowing the user to select a color range, identifying color-coded information in the display that is associated with an unselected color range, and processing the identified color-coded information to enhance the selected color range, wherein processing comprises at least one of adjusting the contrast, the color saturation, and the brightness of the unselected color range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system configured to process color image data to be presented on a color display to a user, comprising:
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a data memory having stored therein a full color space defined by all colors associated with the color image data, first data representative of a first portion of the color space selected by the user, and second data representative of a second portion of the color space including colors not selected by the user;
a processor adapted to modify color image data associated with the second portion by at least one of adjusting contrast, color saturation, and brightness of the second portion. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. Apparatus for flashing a color having a selected hue, comprising
a panel through which light can pass, an optical filter disposed over the panel and capable of reducing an amount of a selected hue passing through the panel, a controller for intermittently activating the optical filter, whereby light of a selected hue is caused to flash.
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40. Apparatus for allowing a driver of a vehicle to identify a selected hue, comprising
a panel mounted to the vehicle and disposed between the driver and a wind shield, the panel being capable of passing light, an optical filter disposed over the filter and being capable of reducing an amount of the selected hue and being formed in a pattern for causing motion of the vehicle relative to the driver to achieve a flashing effect for objects of the selected hue viewed through the panel.
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