Patents Assigned to Acoustic Technology LLC
  • Video and audio processing control
    Patent number: 7873260
    Abstract: A system for modifying video including a source of a filter stack specifying filter operations to be carried out on a video clip, a filter registry of filter functions including information on filter operations that can be carried out by the filter functions, and a filter planner that receives the filter stack and accesses the registry in order to generate a filter plan specifying filter functions to be used in carrying out the filter operations specified in the filter stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Acoustic Technology LLC
    Inventors: Senthilkumar Manickavasagam, Dennis J. Wilkinson, II
  • Apparatus and method for creating effects in video
    Patent number: 7466870
    Abstract: Creating a blur in a digital image by receiving original pixel values in a frame of image data, and for each pixel position in the digital image being blurred, calculating a blurred pixel value by applying a box filter having a plurality of elements with unity multiplier values to original pixel values for pixel positions that include the pixel position and pixel positions that are nearby to it. The output of the first box filter can be sequentially applied as inputs to a second box filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Acoustic Technology LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey F. Hatalsky