Patents by Inventor Kazunori Ochial

Kazunori Ochial has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Video signal converting apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20050001929
    Abstract: A video signal converting apparatus and method for improving display quality of video signals from both film source and video source. It is discriminated whether the input video signal is an interlaced video signal or not, and it is discriminated whether the input video signal is a video signal from a film source based on a film. If the input video signal is discriminated as interlaced video signals, the input video signal is converted, for outputting, to the progressive video signals by a converting method in accordance with a discrimination result regarding whether the input video signal is a video signal from the film source or not. The converted progressive video signal is converted, for outputting, to a video signal having a high frame rate in accordance with the discrimination result regarding whether the converted progressive video signal is a video signal from the film source or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kazunori Ochial, Hiroshi Ando, Tetsuya Shigeta, Tetsuro Nagakubo