Instant Replay Or Freeze Frame Patents (Class 348/559)
  • Patent number: 11651473
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes generating an outputted sequence of warped images from a captured sequence of images. Using this captured sequence of images, a computing system may determine one or more three-dimensional locations of object features and a corresponding camera position for each image in the captured sequence of images. Utilizing the camera positions for each image, the computing system may determine a view path representing the perspective of a virtual camera. The computing system may identify one or more virtual camera positions for the virtual camera located on the view path, and subsequently warp one or more images from the sequence of captured images to represent the perspective of the virtual camera at each of the respective virtual camera positions. This results in a sequence of warped images that may be outputted for viewing and interaction on a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Viktorovich Chtcherbatchenko, Francis Yunfeng Ge, Bo Yin, Shi Chen, Fabian Langguth, Johannes Peter Kopf, Suhib Fakhri Mahmod Alsisan, Richard Szeliski
  • Patent number: 11563992
    Abstract: Video playback quality detection methods, systems, and apparatuses are described. The method can include obtaining a first video data packet of a target video from a bearer network and obtaining a data byte quantity of first video data included in the first video data packet. The method may also include determining a buffer byte quantity stored in a video quality detection buffer. Furthermore, the method can include obtaining video frame data rate information corresponding to the target video and reducing the buffer byte quantity stored in the video quality detection buffer based on a video frame rate of the target video and the video frame data rate information of the target video. The method may further include determining a playback status of playing the target video on a video player, and determining video playback quality of the target video based on the playback status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Liu
  • Patent number: 11516305
    Abstract: A method for tracking an activity of a user. The method includes receiving, by a tracking element, compressed user activity information representative of activities performed by the user during a visit to a web page; receiving, by the tracking element, web page content information representative of web page content displayed to the user during the visit; decompressing the compressed user activity information; and generating user visit information by the tracking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CONTENT SQUARE ISRAEL LTD
    Inventor: Arik Yavilevich
  • Patent number: 11200645
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for automatically synthesizing a content-aware fill using similarity transformed patches. A user interface receives a user-specified hole and a user-specified sampling region, both of which may be stored in a constraint mask. A brush tool can be used to interactively brush the sampling region and modify the constraint mask. The mask is passed to a patch-based synthesizer configured to synthesize the fill using similarity transformed patches sampled from the sampling region. Fill properties such as similarity transform parameters can be set to control the manner in which the fill is synthesized. A live preview can be provided with gradual updates of the synthesized fill prior to completion. Once a fill has been synthesized, the user interface presents the original image, replacing the hole with the synthesized fill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sohrab Amirghodsi, Sarah Jane Stuckey, Elya Shechtman
  • Patent number: 11080863
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a photometric sensor, and can continuously acquire a plurality of images by a single imaging operation. A CPU for image processing and an arithmetic operation acquires image data output by a photometric sensor and performs photometric processing. The CPU determines presence or absence of a flicker light source using a plurality of pieces of acquired image data, and calculates a motion vector of an object by comparison of image data. If it is determined that there is a flicker light source in a photographing environment, gain adjustment is performed on the basis of a result of flicker detection so as to have a brightness of an image suitable for detection of a motion vector, and the motion vector is calculated using image data after gain adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Shintani
  • Patent number: 11019378
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a video editor server may be provided. The video editor server may include: an input circuit configured to receive information about a plurality of input video streams; an event information receiver configured to receive event information indicating an event related to at least one input video stream of the plurality of input video streams; a selector circuit configured to select an input video stream from the plurality of input video streams based on the event information; an editing circuit configured to generate an output video stream comprising the selected video stream; and the event information; and an output circuit configured to output the output video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: RAZER (ASIA-PACIFIC) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Ludmila Veronica Pavlin
  • Patent number: 10261164
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positioning device and an activity data acquisition device. The positioning device includes: a receiving module configured to receive coarse-positioning location information of each determined person and actual location information of an unknown person to be identified on an activity field; a calculating module configured to calculate a first distance between a position indicated by the actual location information of the person to be identified and a position indicated by the coarse-positioning location information of each determined person; a determining module configured to determine the identity of the person to be identified as the determined person corresponding to the smallest first distance, and use the actual location information as accurate-positioning location information of the determined person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaojun Tang
  • Patent number: 9933755
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a response time measurement apparatus, a response time measurement system and a response time measurement method for measuring a response output time from a facility corresponding to an input signal, and more particularly, a response time measurement apparatus, a response time measurement system and a response time measurement method in which the output display of a facility is captured through a capture device to detect an output time on the basis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sam Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9854232
    Abstract: A receiving device performs an action that results in a corrective measure being taken to address a picture quality issue detected in real time in the frames currently being displayed on a television or other device. The receiving device or a remote system compares indications of video frames currently being displayed to stored video frames for that program to detect macroblocking or a frozen video frame. The macroblocking or a frozen video frame may also or instead be detected by image analysis of the frames currently being displayed. If macroblocking or a frozen video frame is detected in the frames currently being displayed, the set-top box may switch to an alternative video source, change to a standard definition channel broadcasting the same video program or perform other corrective actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Gregory H. Greene
  • Patent number: 9846809
    Abstract: A first still image included in a still image file and a second still image extracted from a moving image included in a moving image file are evaluated as layout target on a template. The layout target on the template is specified out of the first still image and the second still image in accordance with the evaluation, and the still image file of the layout target is laid out on the template. The first still image and the second still image are evaluated such that the possibility that the second still image is specified becomes higher than that for the first still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Abe
  • Patent number: 9781562
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for venue experience management. In one implementation, one or more inputs originating at one or more sensors of a first device are received at a communication interface of a location determination device, one or more inputs originating at one or more sensors of a second device are received at the communication interface of the location determination device, a processing device of the location determination device processes the one or more inputs originating at the one or more sensors of the first device in relation to the one or more inputs originating at the one or more sensors of the second device to determine a relative proximity of the first device in relation to the second device, and one or more actions are initiated based on the relative proximity of the first device in relation to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: eVenue LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Piacentile
  • Patent number: 9723256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for re-recording content associated with popularity that re-emerged are provided. A plurality of media assets is recorded. Responsive to determining that popularity of a given one of the plurality of media assets fell below a first threshold, the given media asset is selected for deletion and the given media asset is added to a list of a plurality of media assets that have been selected for deletion. Popularity for the given media asset in the list is retrieved after selecting the given media asset for deletion. The retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is compared to a second threshold. In response to determining that the retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is now above the second threshold, an action relating to re-recording the given media asset is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Young A. Tang, William L. Thomas, Michael R. Nichols
  • Patent number: 9538079
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an electronic device enabling panoramic photography. The method includes: obtaining a first operation; determining whether the first operation meets a first predetermined condition, so as to obtain a first determination result; obtaining parameter information of the electronic device by the sensing unit, when the first determination result is used for representing that the first operation meets the first predetermined condition; further determining whether the parameter information meets a second predetermined condition, so as to obtain a second determination result; controlling the electronic device to enter into the panoramic photography mode, when the second determination result represents that the parameter information meets the second predetermined condition. The method may be applied to enabling the panoramic photography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenhui Chen, Nailei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9230355
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display and an input device includes: selecting an image; selecting an interactive filter; generating interactive filter data associated with the image and corresponding to the selected interactive filter; displaying a first representation of the image in accordance with the interactive filter data; receiving a user input; and in accordance with the user input and the interactive filter data, displaying a second representation of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Glu Mobile Inc.
    Inventors: Sourabh Ahuja, Liang Wu, Michael Andrew Mok, Lian A. Amaris
  • Patent number: 9131269
    Abstract: A viewer of a digital television trying to freeze the video at a particular frame. Generally the human delay and the delay introduced by the remote control device and the control software executing on the television results in the frame that is displayed by the freeze event is some number of frames or seconds after the frame that the viewer wanted frozen. A small amount of memory that constantly buffers several seconds of digital video such that once the viewer initiates the freeze event the frame that is displayed is effectively some seconds in the past. The viewer then has the ability to single frame step to the frame that he actually was interested in viewing. The viewer's actions are refined by a rules based algorithm that allows it to more closely target and display what it believes will be the final frame the viewer wanted to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Vizio Inc.
    Inventors: William Pat Price, Peter J Schwartz, Marcus P Apitz
  • Patent number: 9113165
    Abstract: The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which function QSN has been normalized to the most significant bit of the bit depth of the digital symbols. As a result, the effect of a given QP is essentially independent of bit depth a particular QP value has a standard effect on image quality, regardless of bit depth. The invention is useful, for example, in encoding and decoding at different bit depths, to generate compatible, bitstreams having different bit depths, and to allow different bit depths for different components of a video signal by compressing each with the same fidelity (i.e., the same QP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Walter C. Gish, Christopher J. Vogt
  • Patent number: 8970782
    Abstract: A method and system for playing a video image including video frames and on-screen displays, and displaying an on-screen display associated with a video frame already played without interrupting the playing of the video frames. The displaying of the on-screen displays can be activated by the user commands received from a user. The user can select on-screen displays associated with frames of the video image played in a past pre-defined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Mark Alan Schultz, Matthew Robert Lamb
  • Patent number: 8830393
    Abstract: Spatial or temporal interpolation may be performed upon source video content to create interpolated video content. A video signal including the interpolated video content and non-interpolated video content (e.g. the source video content) may be generated. At least one indicator for distinguishing the non-interpolated video content from the interpolated video content may also be generated. The video signal and indicator(s) may be passed from a video source device to a video sink device. The received indicator(s) may be used to distinguish the non-interpolated video content from the interpolated video content in the received video signal. The non-interpolated video content may be used to ā€œredoā€ the interpolation or may be recorded to a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventor: David Glen
  • Patent number: 8773588
    Abstract: A method for de-interlacing interlaced video includes receiving a first video field and a second video field of an interlaced video frame, generating a first video frame from the first video field and a first synthesized video field, where video data of the first synthesized video field is based exclusively on video data of the first and second video fields, generating a second video frame from the second video field and a second synthesized video field, where video data of the second synthesized video field is based exclusively on the video data of the first and second video fields, and outputting two de-interlaced video frames for every received interlaced video frame. The first (second) synthesized video field is generated by combining image data from the second (first) video field with image data from corresponding lines of an up-scaled first (second) field generated by a scaler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventor: Stefan Lundberg
  • Patent number: 8730397
    Abstract: Providing a photobook comprising video frames. One or more selectable images comprising video frames are selected by a computer. The selected one or more selectable images are sorted into related groups by the computer. The related groups are assigned to one or more pages of a photobook by the computer. The selected images of the related groups are positioned by the computer on assigned pages of the photobook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8687120
    Abstract: High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Estrop, Matthew C. Howard
  • Patent number: 8666220
    Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus includes an operating section having dual functions depending on being in an image capture mode or in a reproduction mode respectively. While one of the recording mode and the reproduction mode is being carried out, in response to start of the other mode, a controlling function of the operating section is switched to the function of the other mode, and in response to the completion of the other mode, the function of the operating section is switched to the function of the one mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Tsukui
  • Publication number: 20140009679
    Abstract: A live video is directed to a display buffer of the device. The device is preferably a set top box and a live video frame stored in the display buffer is preferably displayed by a display device coupled to the set top box. The display device is preferably a television. A capture command preferably signals the set top box to store one or more frames of the currently displayed live video. Upon receiving the capture command, the live video is paused, thereby preventing the display buffer from loading subsequent live video frames. The live video is then re-directed to a capture buffer, the live video is un-paused, and a current live video frame is captured from the capture buffer. The captured frame is then stored using a conventional storage medium. After the frame is captured, the live video is re-directed from the capture buffer to the display buffer to resume display of the live video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicants: SONY ELECTRONICS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
  • Patent number: 8544037
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an input unit to which replay information including a broadcasting section of a replay video and a reference section representing an actual filming time zone, and information for designating a length of a digest are input; a replay importance degree computing unit that obtains the number of replays, an interval between predetermined positions of the replay broadcasting section and the replay reference section, a time length of replay broadcasting, speed of replay broadcasting, the number of cut switches of the replay from the replay information, and computes the importance degree of the replay video on the basis of these items; and a digest creating unit that sets the replay video as a digest candidate, and selects a combination of the digest candidates based on a length condition of the digest and a composite importance degree of the combination of digest candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Terada, Hiroshi Kasahara, Toru Nakada
  • Patent number: 8355083
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a computer-implemented image-processing system and method for the automatic generation of video sequences that can be associated with a televised event. The methods can include the steps of: Defining a reference keyframe from a reference view from a source image sequence; From one or more keyframes, automatically computing one or more sets of virtual camera parameters; Generating a virtual camera flight path, which is described by a change of virtual camera parameters over time, and which defines a movement of a virtual camera and a corresponding change of a virtual view; and Rendering and storing a virtual video stream defined by the virtual camera flight path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventors: Richard Keiser, Christoph Niederberger, Stephan Wuermlin Stadler, Remo Ziegler
  • Patent number: 8331676
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a correlation value computing section that computes a correlation value between pixels in a noted image and its preceding and following reference images; a break determining section that determines a break in identical images based on the correlation value between pixels; a successive occurrence counting section that cumulatively counts successive occurrences of identical images as a successive occurrence count, if the noted image is not determined as corresponding to a break; a pattern determining section that determines whether or not the successive occurrence count and a set count match, if the noted image is determined as corresponding to a break; a matching counting section that counts up a matching count if it is determined that the successive occurrence count and the set count match; and a pull-down pattern detecting section that detects a predetermined pull-down pattern if the matching count exceeds a predetermined count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasunari Hatasawa
  • Patent number: 8305496
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scaling process system including a replay apparatus and a video output apparatus which are connected via a HDMI, wherein each of the video output apparatus and the replay apparatus respectively comprises a between-pixel interpolation method table, wherein the video output apparatus including a request signal transmission device to transmit a request signal, a between-pixel interpolation method information receiving device to receive the between-pixel interpolation method information, a determining device to determine which of between-pixel interpolation method information of the replay apparatus or between-pixel interpolation method information of the video output apparatus is more high-performance, a deciding device to decide an apparatus to be used for the scaling process, and a control device to control the apparatus which is decided by the deciding device so as to carry out the scaling process, and wherein the replay apparatus including a request signal receiving device to receive the reque
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Wanaka
  • Patent number: 8289306
    Abstract: A video display method consistent with certain embodiments involves sampling video from a video source using a sample and hold frame buffer such that frames are received and stored as the frames of video information are supplied from the video source at a refresh interval to a video display panel in a dynamic mode of operation wherein the screen is refreshed with a new frame of video data at each refresh interval; determining that a static mode of operation is to be entered; sending an output signal from the sample and hold frame buffer to the video display panel during the static mode of operation; and placing the video source in a lower power consumption mode in the static mode of operation. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Allan Unger
  • Patent number: 8285223
    Abstract: A deviation from an expected wireless link status between a wireless display device and a local wireless media transmission device is detected via the wireless display device. The local wireless media transmission device is located proximate to the wireless display device. It is determined that an expected wireless signal is not incident upon a first wireless receiver of the wireless display device based upon the detected deviation from the expected wireless link status. A problem is identified that causes the detected deviation from the expected wireless link status. A wireless status indicator is displayed via the display. The wireless status indicator indicates that the expected wireless signal is not incident upon the first wireless receiver and indicates the identified problem that causes the detected deviation from the expected wireless link status. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Allan Unger
  • Publication number: 20120188452
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a computer-implemented image-processing system and method for the automatic generation of video sequences that can be associated with a televised event. The methods can include the steps of: Defining a reference keyframe from a reference view from a source image sequence; From one or more keyframes, automatically computing one or more sets of virtual camera parameters; Generating a virtual camera flight path, which is described by a change of virtual camera parameters over time, and which defines a movement of a virtual camera and a corresponding change of a virtual view; and Rendering and storing a virtual video stream defined by the virtual camera flight path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: LIBEROVISION AG
    Inventors: Richard KEISER, Christoph NIEDERBERGER, Stephan WUERMLIN STADLER, Remo ZIEGLER
  • Patent number: 8130824
    Abstract: The moving images under reproduction are displayed in a main screen and a plurality of thumbnail images that serve as indexes by which to search for a desired scene are displayed. Moreover, the thus displayed thumbnail images are updated at a predetermined timing according as the moving images progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Okada, Shigeyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 8115872
    Abstract: A method of capturing digital broadcast images in a digital broadcast terminal is provided. Upon request for output of digital broadcasting from a user, video frames of received digital broadcast frames are decoded. Upon request for a multi-capture function from the user, digital broadcast images of the decoded video frames are captured at a predetermined number of shots per unit time and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LTD
    Inventors: Kang-Wook Kim, Jong-Kerl Lee
  • Publication number: 20120019720
    Abstract: A signal discriminating and monitoring circuit provides a full black detection circuit which detects a full black signal input during the change of the video signal and holds the detection result of the full black signal only during the specified time period. When a full black video signal is detected in the full black detection circuit, the signal discriminating and monitoring circuit detects whether the resolution of the video signal input has changed by determining whether the frequency of the horizontal synchronization signal included in the video signal of the next frame to be input changed above a preset value. When a change in the resolution of the video signal is detected, the change detected signal indicates that the detection result is output. When a scalar circuit receives the change detected signal, the video display signal is output as a constant value in order to set the display video in the static state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Eifuu Nezu, Tooru Kataoka
  • Patent number: 8085347
    Abstract: A technology is provided that suppresses a noise that an image forming apparatus makes in the course of an operation thereof from interfering with a user who is watching television. When a printer 203 receives a print command, the printer 203 performs a print job as per a normal mode if a commercial is being displayed on a digital TV 201. If what is being displayed on the digital TV 201 is not the commercial, the printer 203 suspends the print job until the commercial begins to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshikawa, Kosuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7944510
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus, and method, for capturing a broadcast signal, the apparatus including a signal processor to receive broadcast signals and process the broadcast signals, a controller to capture a certain frame data from the broadcast signals processed by the signal processor, check an input resolution of the broadcast signals, and decide whether to perform a down-scaling with respect to the captured frame data, a down-scaler to down-scale the frame data which is decided by the controller to be down-scaled, and a storage unit to store the down-scaled frame data. Accordingly, an image can be captured and a captured frame data can be stored without being degraded, preventing memory consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-ho Lee, Seong-nam Oh
  • Patent number: 7932958
    Abstract: An analog video receiver implemented in an integrated circuit device. The analog video receiver includes an amplifier to amplify an analog video signal having a desired carrier frequency, and a mixing circuit to mix the amplified analog video signal with a complex sinusoid having a frequency substantially equal to the carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Telegent Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Weijie Yun, Samuel Sheng, Dennis G. Yee
  • Patent number: 7876355
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to detect presence of undesirable video abnormalities during, for example, video ingest or playback. These undesirable characteristics may include an average picture level that is less than a preset threshold value, or static input, in which the content does not change over a significant number of frames. Detection of abnormalities results in an alarm to a system operator. Analysis and alarm may occur automatically during processing of video data streams. The same abnormalities may be detected during playback of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Harmonic Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas C. Stevens
  • Patent number: 7849476
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically switching a primary image of a display module from a television program to an interactive application upon detecting the beginning of a commercial break and optionally switching the primary image back to the television program upon detecting or determining the end of the commercial break; wherein the user's progress in executing the interactive application is automatically saved upon return to the television program so that the user can progressively execute the interactive application program during consecutive commercial breaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: John Herbert Stevens, Timothy Joseph Tully
  • Patent number: 7787052
    Abstract: A broadcasting receiver having a freeze function and a method thereof. The broadcasting receiver has an operation reception unit receiving predetermined operation signals; a graphic driver unit continuously outputting one frame of same image signal and/or one frame of same additional data, according to a freezing command input through the operation reception unit; a scaler unit scaling the one frame of same image signal and/or the one frame of same additional data; a display unit displaying the one frame of same image signal and/or the one frame of same additional data as scaled; an on-screen-display (OSD) generation unit producing OSD data corresponding to a predetermined external operation signal input through the operation reception unit; and a control unit controlling the graphic driver unit to blend the OSD data with the one frame of same image signal and/or the one frame of same additional data and output them as blended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hye-young Chang
  • Patent number: 7768575
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for capturing consecutive frames in digital video are disclosed. Through adding a function of capturing consecutive frames in digital video to digital televisions or digital recording equipments, the continuous fantastic frames in digital video can be displayed on the screen for users to watch and choose. Besides, with a recording function, those fabulous frames can also be preserved for the use of the follow-up view and demonstration. Finally, the purpose of capturing and storing best frames is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Chih Chen, Kuo-Tien Su, Meng-Nan Tsou
  • Publication number: 20100188577
    Abstract: An embodiment may include a method or system for capturing still images from a video stream. The embodiment may operate in a playback mode and a capture mode. Operating in playback mode may include decoding and playing the input video stream at a first resolution. Operating in capture mode may include showing a still video frame from the input video stream while decoding and playing the input video stream at a second resolution. The embodiment may include a display, a control device, a video decoder, and a signal receiver. The embodiment may also include a buffer for storing decoded images for capture and display during video playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangpeng Jing, Seungwook Hong, Aixin Liu, Djung Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20100043038
    Abstract: A digital television system that includes an RF tuner, a transport stream demultiplexer, an audio decoder, a video decoder, a non-persistent memory, and at least one processor. The non-persistent memory is used to store audio and video packetized elementary stream (PES) packets demultiplexed by the transport stream demultiplexer based upon a broadcast signal received and demodulated by the RF tuner. During the process of decoding and presenting audio, video, and audio-video content on a display device of the television system, the at least one processor generates video records corresponding to each video PES packet and audio records corresponding to each audio PES packet. The video and audio records establish a one to one correspondence between each video PES packet and each audio PES packet and permits each video PES packet and each audio PES packet stored in the memory to be located, decoded, and re-displayed on the display device on the television system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Zoran Corporation
    Inventor: Xin Li
  • Publication number: 20100033631
    Abstract: A method for displaying image is provided. The method includes: providing at least one image display mode, the image display mode defines a total number of images displayed on a display, a size of each of display areas, and an duration of displaying image on the biggest possible display area; obtaining images and the image display mode; configuring one or more display areas according to the image display mode; and displaying images on the biggest possible display area in a special order according to the duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Feng Tsai, Cheng-Hao Chou, Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Xiao-Guang Li, Guang-Jin Li
  • Patent number: 7626637
    Abstract: An apparatus for capturing full-screen frames, which are displayed by a display unit having a first display buffer and a second display buffer, in real time. The display unit selects one of the first and second display buffers as a front buffer for displaying the full-screen frames. The apparatus includes a capture unit, and a display driver unit for driving the display unit. When data in the front buffer is updated, the display driver unit generates image data and saves the image data in a temporary buffer. Then, the display driver unit copies the image data to a share buffer. The capture unit reads the image data from the share buffer and generates a video bitstream accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Asustek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Kao-Yi Chiu, Yu-Hsuan Lai
  • Patent number: 7565056
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus of a configuration capable of requesting a transmission of an information file including the currently received information data in response to an instruction for starting a recording in the course of reception of information data transmitted from a transmitting apparatus and decoding of the information data by a decoder, and receiving the information file transmitted from the transmitting apparatus in response to the transmission request, while suspending the decoding process by the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuma Mikawa
  • Patent number: 7558318
    Abstract: The moving images under reproduction are displayed in a main screen and a plurality of thumbnail images that serve as indexes by which to search for a desired scene are displayed. Moreover, the thus displayed thumbnail images are updated at a predetermined timing according as the moving images progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Okada, Shigeyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 7545439
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for customizing a digital broadcast receiver. Video and audio clips may be captured from a broadcast signal after receiving commands from a user. The captured clips may then be used to provide background images and sounds. Sounds may also be assigned to broadcast receiver events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Esa Wahlroos
  • Patent number: 7502074
    Abstract: A television signal receiver comprises a tuner, a decoder, a first storage medium that stores a frame of video signals extracted by the decoder as a captured image, a second storage medium that stores sound data representing a variety of shutter sounds to be generated for informing a user that a captured image has been stored in the first storage medium, and a sound generating circuit that, when a captured image is stored in the first storage medium, selects a shutter sound among the variety of shutter sounds represented by the sound data stored in the second storage medium and generates the selected shutter sound. Since the television signal receiver is configured to generate a shutter sound when a captured image is stored in the first storage medium, it can inform a user about storage of a captured image in the first storage medium without causing video images of a television program to be partly hidden from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shusuke Narita, Toshihiro Takagi, Tatsuo Miyagawa, Yasuhiro Inui, Takahiro Katayama
  • Publication number: 20090040382
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes an extraction device extracting a corresponding ā€œIā€ picture corresponding to chapter data from ā€œIā€ pictures included in moving image data while the chapter data specifying a reproduction start point in the moving image data indicating a shot video is being generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shiro Nagaoka, Kuniaki Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Ikehata, Kei Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20090040383
    Abstract: To provide a technology of properly specifying a process target frame in a dynamic image in accordance with a user's instruction. A frame specifying device plays a dynamic image, receives, when a user performs an operation of instructing execution of a process about a partial scene in the dynamic image, an instruction signal based on the user's operation, and specifies, as triggered by receiving the instruction signal, a frame under the play or a frame distanced by a predetermined length of time from the frame under the play as the process target frame when receiving the instruction signal in the frames constructing the dynamic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Terasaki, Hiroyuki Komai, Masashi Urushihara