Patents by Inventor Marten Derk Van Der Laan

Marten Derk Van Der Laan 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).

  • Menu generating method and recording device for a record carrier
    Patent number: 7046260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a menu picture generating method and to a recording device for recording a menu picture on a record carrier (20), wherein a key frame picture is scaled and then compressed before being assembled by a slice replacement operation. The entire menu picture assembly operation is performed in the compressed picture domain, wherein no pictures need to be decoded and only small part of the menu picture, corresponding to the scaled key frame picture, needs to be encoded. Thereby, the normal encoding-decoding pipeline of the recording device is not required for menu generation, such that hardware and software requirements can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics
    Inventors: Emmanuel David Lucas Michael Frimout, Marten Derk Van Der Laan
  • Menu generating method and recording device for a record carrier
    Publication number: 20030021588
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a menu picture generating method and to a recording device for recording a menu picture on a record carrier (20), wherein a key frame picture is scaled and then compressed before being assembled by a slice replacement operation. The entire menu picture assembly operation is performed in the compressed picture domain, wherein no pictures need to be decoded and only small part of the menu picture, corresponding to the scaled key frame picture, needs to be encoded. Thereby, the normal encoding-decoding pipeline of the recording device is not required for menu generation, such that hardware and software requirements can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Emmanuel David Lucas Michael Frimout, Marten Derk Van Der Laan