Number Of Pixels Per Row Or Column Conversion (i.e., Resolution Conversion) Patents (Class 345/3.3)
  • Patent number: 7079163
    Abstract: A method of color-real adjustment and system for adjusting a display device is disclosed, the system includes a server for outputting an image triggering signal and inputting an image extraction signal, performing a color-real process on the image extraction signal to obtain color data, transforming the color data into a color-real parameter and outputting the color-real parameter; an pattern generator for outputting an image pattern according to the image triggering signal; the display device for displaying an image corresponding according to the image pattern; an digital camera for detecting colors of the displayed image to output the image extraction signal; and a burner for storing the color-real parameter into a memory of the display device, wherein the color-real parameter matches a format of extended display identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Tatung Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Hua Tseng
  • Patent number: 7053877
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performed by a frame memory, a line memory and an enlargement processing control circuit. If the input operation and the output operation to and from the frame memory are synchronized with each other, it is sufficient for the frame memory to have a storage capacity of two lines. When the video signal has the same high resolution as a liquid crystal display panel, the video signal is output through a gate circuit to a display timing generating circuit, and it is displayed in a through mode. In this case, no processing is performed by the frame memory or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Furuhashi, Takeshi Maeda, Atsuhiro Higa, Hisayuki Ohhara, Hiroshi Kurihara, Naruhiko Kasai
  • Patent number: 7009628
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for determining a true horizontal resolution of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of features having associated feature edges on a display each of which were created with a true pixel clock is described. For a test horizontal resolution, if it is determined that substantially all of the feature edges have substantially the same phase relationship to a test pixel clock, then the test horizontal resolution is the true horizontal resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Neal
  • Patent number: 7006112
    Abstract: A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided into a plurality of image portions. Then, the plurality of image portions are picked in sequence to a frame buffer register. An image scaling operation is performed for each picked image portion, and then the scaled image portion is cleared from the frame buffer register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pingo Chia, Titan Sun
  • Patent number: 7003176
    Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for converting color image resolution including inputting an image enlarging ratio, inputting target pixel data of an image in a first color space to be enlarged in a sequence, sampling reference pixels including the target pixel and pixels at least one of which links to the target pixel, and converting the reference pixel data into a second color space data. Other functions include extracting image feature quantities from the reference pixel data, selecting one of a plurality of pixel multiplying methods according to the extracted image feature quantities, multiplying the target pixel by the selected image multiplying method with an integer value based on the input image enlarging ratio, and outputting pixel data that have been generated by the target pixel multiplying step in a sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suzuki, Manabu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 6967633
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal panel employing a circuit layout that makes it possible to obtain a small size liquid crystal panel when the area a source driver occupies is large. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a pixel portion including m×n pixels (m and n are both natural numbers and satisfy the relation m<n), the pixels each having a TFT; a gate driver for feeding n gate signal lines with selection signals; a source driver for feeding m source signal lines with video data; and a video data converter circuit, and is characterized in that the video data converter circuit converts first video data (h, k) (h=1˜m, k=1˜n) into second video data, and in that the video data (h, k) constituting the first video data is converted into {m(k?1)+h}-th video data that constitutes the second video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6956541
    Abstract: An electronic display is disclosed for displaying a visual presentation. One described electronic display includes a plurality of digital playback devices. Each digital playback device includes a display device comprising a portion of a display area of the electronic display. Each digital playback device further includes a processor, persistent memory, video data representing a video presentation stored within the persistent memory, and control logic for controlling playback of the video presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: ImageArray, Ltd.
    Inventor: Dale Thomas McClintock
  • Patent number: 6909406
    Abstract: A presentation module associated with the BIOS of an information handling system, such as a portable computer, allows an intermediate level driver, such as a dynamic link library, to set the presentation display type. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface on a portable computer LCD calls a presentation dynamic link library to coordinate selection and unselection of a projector for displaying information from the portable computer. Upon selection of the projector, the presentation module detects the resolution of the projector and a resolution application programming interface sets the projector resolution of the portable computer to the highest supported resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Teresa A. Wilburn, Rachel D. Starnes
  • Patent number: 6876339
    Abstract: The object is to realize format conversion in inputting an image signal corresponding to conventional low resolution (hereafter referred to as a video signal) to an active matrix semiconductor display device or to a passive matrix semiconductor display device corresponding to recent high resolution, and at the same time to provide a novel method of driving capable of improving the resolution in an outline portion of an image. With the driving method of the present invention, conversion of a screen size which is not capable of being completely performed by only lowering a clock frequency, can be completely performed by artificially reducing the number of scans of gate signal lines in accordance with outputting a gate selection pulse at a timing for simultaneously selecting a plurality of gate signal lines using a modulated clock signal in which a clock signal has been modulated at a constant period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Hiroki
  • Patent number: 6873345
    Abstract: An adaptive information display apparatus is provided for simultaneously displaying a plurality of kinds of display information on a display screen in an optimal display form. The information display apparatus includes a work processing unit for executing a plurality of kinds of work processing based on each of data inputted from a sensor input unit and a character/coordinate input unit and outputting the results of the work processing, and a display unit for displaying the results of the plurality of kinds of work processing outputted from the work processing unit. The information display apparatus further includes a display form detector unit detecting display form data for the display unit, an arrangement rule storage unit storing an arrangement rule defining display forms corresponding to each of the plurality of kinds of work processing, and a display arrangement control unit comparing the display form data and the arrangement rule for each work to output a predetermined display arrangement instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshibumi Fukuda, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kimiya Yamaashi
  • Patent number: 6859134
    Abstract: Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging communication to employees or customers in a simplified terminal configuration using the existing data communication system. By performing voice to data and data to voice conversions, the same system provides voice communication without interruption of data communication services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederic Heiman, Joseph Katz, Robert Beach, Andrew R. Werback
  • Publication number: 20040252119
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a control framework for organizing, selecting and launching media items including graphical user interfaces coupled with an optional free space control device for collection of the basic control primitives of point, click, scroll, hover and zoom which permit for easy and rapid selection of media items, e.g., movies, songs etc., from large or small collections. The remote control maps natural hand movements and gestures into relevant commands while the graphical display uses images, zooming for increased/decreased levels of detail and continuity of GUI objects to provide easy organization, selection and navigation among the media items by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Frank A. Hunleth, Negar Moshiri, William J. Napier, Daniel S. Simpkins, Frank J. Wroblewski
  • Patent number: 6816171
    Abstract: A device for receiving video signals and horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals using a flat panel display device for discriminating modes thereof. The device displays the best images by automatically controlling the mode, in case the mode is unsuitable for the flat panel and a method therefor. A micro-controller discriminates modes according to the input horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals and outputs an OSD (on screen display) control signal and pixel clock control signals according to the discriminated modes. A phase-locked loop controls timing of pixel clocks according to the pixel clock signals control of the micro-controller and outputs the pixel clocks. An analog to digital converter receives video signals, and samples the video signals according to the pixel clocks from the phase-locked loop and converts the video signals into digital video signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Chan Kim
  • Patent number: 6720972
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for remapping video images from a display processor, represented by a quad-subpixel digital data stream to a striped-subpixel color display using a processor including an intermediate pixel memory where the processor presents an intermediate digital data stream to a resizing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Martin W. Feintuch
  • Patent number: 6710781
    Abstract: When an image having an aspect ratio of 16:9 is compressed in a vertical direction to be displayed on a display screen having an aspect ratio of 4:3, a gray scale signal is inserted into a top and a bottom of an image signal and a brightness level of the inserted gray scale signal is made to correspond to an average brightness level of the image signal. In addition, when an image having an aspect ratio of 4:3 is compressed in a horizontal direction to be displayed on a display screen having an aspect ratio of 16:9, a gray scale signal is inserted into a right edge and a left edge of an image signal and a brightness level of the inserted gray scale signal is made to correspond to an average brightness level of the image signal. Accordingly, a boundary line between a video image area and a non-video image area due to the difference in luminous characteristics of phosphors becomes hardly recognizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Saito
  • Patent number: 6707467
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains, on the basis of information of input resolution of input image data and information of output resolution to be obtained after transformation of resolution, a ratio of the input resolution to the output resolution as an integral ratio M:N having no common divisor, decides, in units of the N number of pixels of output image data, which of a first resolution transforming process and a second resolution transforming process is to be used for each of the N number of pixels of output image data, and performs the first resolution transforming process and the second resolution transforming process on the input image data on the basis of a result of this decision, to obtain the output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazumi Suga
  • Patent number: 6704009
    Abstract: An image display in which occurrence of beat noise can be suppressed without adding noise to an image in a pixel converting process is provided. The frequency of a data clock is preset to a value at which beat noise is not apt to occur (a value such that one of the dot clock frequency of the input analog video signal and the frequency of the data clock is not equal to or close to an integral multiple of the other) for each kind of the input analog video signal and is stored as a frequency correspondence list in a memory MM. In accordance with the kind of the input analog video signal, a control block 4 selects the set frequency of the data clock and allows a data clock generating block 6 to generate a data clock Cd. Consequently, at the time of a pixel converting process performed by a signal processing block 5, without adding noise to an image, occurrence of beat noise is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Miyuki Tachibana, Hiroki Iwataka
  • Patent number: 6700577
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for converting bit strings from a first resolution to a second resolution suitable for application, in particular, on peripherals such as printers, scanners or facsimile machines. The device comprises a source register 31 in which a string of bits to be converted is stored by a CPU 11, a destination register 32 from which the CPU 11 extracts the converted string, and a pair of control registers 21 and 22 which cooperate for converting bit by bit the bit strings from the source register 31 to the destination register 32. The control registers 21 and 22, the source register 31 and the destination register 32 operate independently from the CPU 11 used and at a clock rate (clk2) greater than that (clk1) of the CPU 11, thereby permitting extremely fast conversion times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Olivetti Tecnost S.p.A.
    Inventors: Walter Cerutti, Gianpiero Bianco
  • Patent number: 6670964
    Abstract: A system selects either a first scaler in a host computer or a second scaler in a display device, the first scaler having a predetermined output quality. The system instructs the display device to render a pattern; determines the output quality of the second scaler; and compares the quality of the second scaler with the predetermined output quality and selects the scaler with higher quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, Mark L. Reinke, Henry M. D'Souza
  • Patent number: 6633306
    Abstract: In an active matrix liquid crystal display, pixels are arranged in rows and columns of a matrix and are controllable via row electrodes and column electrodes. To improve and to expand the possibilities of image rendering without increasing the number of rows and columns to be controlled, the pixels are divided into sub-pixels with corresponding sub-pixel electrodes, each of which is connected to the column electrode assigned to the pixel via controllable switches. On the control side, the controllable switches are connected to the row electrode assigned to the pixel via pixel control unit which is common to them. From a control signal supplied to it via the row electrode the pixel control unit generates locally and chronologically different turn-on signals for the various switches so that they switch chronologically successive different gray-scale levels of a gray-scale signal present at the column electrode through to the sub-pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael März, Klaus Wammes
  • Patent number: 6628260
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performed by a frame memory, a line memory and an enlargement processing control circuit. If the input operation and the output operation to and from the frame memory are synchronized with each other, it is sufficient for the frame memory to have a storage capacity of two lines. When the video signal has the same high resolution as a liquid crystal display panel, the video signal is output through a gate circuit to a display timing generating circuit, and it is displayed in a through mode. In this case, no processing is performed by the frame memory or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Furuhashi, Takeshi Maeda, Atsuhiro Higa, Hisayuki Ohhara, Hiroshi Kurihara, Naruhiko Kasai
  • Patent number: 6614448
    Abstract: A graphics processor displays pixels in an image at non-uniform resolution, using a maximum resolution in the interior of a surface in the image, and a lower resolution at edges. Higher color resolution in the interior eliminates color aliasing that would otherwise be caused if the interior were displayed at the lower resolution. Lower resolution at the edges is not noticeable to the human eye, and allows the graphics processor to use one or more low resolution color signals in generating the displayed image, thereby reducing hardware (e.g. memory locations required to store such signals, and lines required to route such signals). One such processor (not necessarily a graphics processor) includes a resolution reducer and a resolution enhancer that respectively reduce and enhance the resolution of a signal. Specifically, the resolution reducer reduces the resolution of a high resolution signal to generate a low resolution signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Garlick, Edward A. Hutchins
  • Patent number: 6556724
    Abstract: An image collaboration system conducts resolution independent image collaboration among a host computer and participating client computers. The subject of the image collaboration involves at least one source image. The source image is transformed into a hierarchical representation, such that each level of the hierarchical representation is sufficient to reconstruct the source image at a given resolution. The host computer displays, at a first resolution, an image based on one or more of the source images. To conduct the resolution independent image collaboration, the host computer generates a resolution independent description of the image, which describes the first display image relative to the source image, and broadcasts the resolution independent description of the image to the participating clients. In response, the participating clients generate an image from the resolution independent description of the image at the host computer at a resolution sufficient for display at the participating clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignees: Stentor Inc., University of Pittsburgh
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Chang, John C. Huffman, Bradford V. Hebert
  • Patent number: 6549682
    Abstract: An image data processing apparatus wherein patterns obtained on the basis of common image information shared by a plurality of pre-conversion pixels with one post-conversion pixel are stored in a calculation data selector, and there is decided a pattern conforming with the pixel data inputted to the calculation data selector via an A/D converter and a frame memory. A calculation coefficient selector selects the calculation coefficients corresponding to the pattern thus decided, and outputs the selected coefficients to a calculator. Then the calculator calculates new pixel data by the use of such calculation coefficients and pixel data inputted thereto. In this apparatus, the post-conversion image formed by converting the number of its pixels can be displayed clearly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hidehiko Okada
  • Patent number: 6515678
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for magnifying a display of video data. In an exemplary embodiment, a system for magnifying a display of data includes a receiver for receiving a first set of video data including video data formatted for display in a first resolution. A translator is also included for translating the first set of video data formatted for display in the first resolution to a second set of video data formatted for display in a second resolution, the second resolution being a lower resolution than the first resolution. A magnifier is also included for magnifying a display of video data by formatting the first set of video into a third set of video data. The third set of video data is capable of display on a display device capable of displaying video data in the second resolution and incapable of displaying video data in the first resolution. The third set of video data is in an enlarged format with respect to the second set of video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Gateway, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Boger
  • Publication number: 20020167460
    Abstract: A method of using two or more display units with different resolutions which have been combined such that the geometry of images displayed across the multiple display units is preserved and the image appears to be substantially continuous to a viewer of the image. Compatibility of the sizes of image elements on different display units is achieved by using display unit-specific scaling to compensate for the different pixel sizes on the individual display units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Baudisch, Nathaniel S. Good, Paul Joseph Stewart
  • Patent number: 6469800
    Abstract: A method for converting a facsimile-based vertical resolution to a printer-based vertical resolution is disclosed. The printer-based vertical resolution is firstly divided by using the facsimile-based vertical resolution to obtain a quotient and a remainder both being integers. All the data lines of the printing job are repeatedly generated for “quotient” times. Next, some data lines that their total number equals to the remainder are selected from the repeatedly data lines for further generated once than the other is. The selected data lines can be randomly or fixed selected from the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Destiny Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ai-Chieh Lu, Fong Lien
  • Publication number: 20020149542
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of interfacing video information which can provide an accurately displayed video picture irrespective of the type of a video input signal by interfacing the video display information between a main body and a monitor, and thus maintaining the optimum picture state. The apparatus includes a main body for outputting a video signal and information on a display type of the video signal, and a monitor for detecting the display type of the corresponding video signal in accordance with the display type information outputted from the main body and displaying on a display screen the video signal outputted from the main body to match the detected display type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Myoung Jun Song
  • Patent number: 6359600
    Abstract: A matrix display device comprises a matrix display (10) with picture elements (18) arranged in a number of display lines (R). A driving circuit (3) supplies picture signals (Ds) to the picture elements (18) dependent on a video signal (V) which comprises, in a field (Fp), a number of video lines which is lower than the number of display lines (R). A line period (Tl) is defined as the duration of one of the video lines. To display video information on all display lines (R) regularly, after a number of line periods (Tl), more than one display line (R) is selected within one line period (Tl) to write video information to more than one display line (R). Therefore, a timing circuit (21) receives video timing information (S) to determine consecutive and non-overlapping select periods (Tr), each select period (Tr) completely occurring within a line period (Tl). In at least one of the line periods (Tl), at least two select periods (Tr) occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Flat Panel Display Company
    Inventors: Frederik C. G. Mijnsbergen, Sipke Bijlsma
  • Patent number: 6348931
    Abstract: A display control device detects the state of an input video signal, sets the display mode of a display device among n predetermined display modes corresponding to different states of the input video signal on the basis of the detection output, and controls the display operation of the display device in accordance with the set mode. When the detected state of the input video signal does not match any of the n predetermined display modes, the display mode of the display device is set to be one of the n predetermined display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazumi Suga, Masayuki Sawada