Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of modulatable light sources providing a one-dimensional array of display-elements, and a scanning unit, carried or worn by the user, which causes the user to perceive the array as a two-dimensional image. The scanning unit is movable with respect to the array while still allowing the user to view the array as a two-dimensional image.

Abstract: A set top box and remote control system, wherein the set top box is provided with preselect keys for storing the program identifier of a user's favorite program. The preselect keys being accessible by a remote control as well as manually.

Abstract: A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. In one illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D scenery are produced using a camera system records left and right color perspective images thereof and optically processes the spectral components thereof. In another illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D imagery are produced within a computer-based system which generates left and right perspective images thereof using computer graphic processes, and processes the pixel data thereof using pixel-data processing methods of the present invention.

Abstract: Input encoded moving image data constituted by a plurality of frames including image data for at least one frame which is encoded by an intra-frame mode and image data encoded by an inter-frame mode is accumulated in, e.g., an accumulating apparatus in the form that allows proper reproduction of moving image data from a frame desired by an operator on the apparatus side to an arbitrary frame.

Abstract: A film scanner includes: a film carrier having, an aperture for image reading, a film conveyor for conveying a film on which image information in each frame has been recorded, to the aperture one frame by one frame of the film, and a communication device for receiving a control signal to control the film conveyor; an image reader for optically reading the recorded image information on the film; a controller for generating the control signal; and a first outputting device connected with the communication device for outputting the control signal to the film carrier.

Abstract: A computer system which manipulates audio and video signals. A multimedia input device which generates an audio and/or video signal is coupled to a processor. The processor is also coupled to a storage device upon which a decompression routine is stored, the decompression routine including a transposition routine. The transposition routine manipulates data elements associated with the audio or video signal in transposing an array of n rows of a plurality of data elements. The transposition routine causes the processor to interleave data elements from a first row with data elements from a second row to generate a first result. Data elements from a third row are interleaved with data elements from a fourth row to generate a second result. Then, data elements from the first result are interleaved with data elements from the second result to generate a third result.

Abstract: A read control circuit reads image data, which are stored in a decoding image memory, at a read speed m/n times a display speed. These image data are written to line memories by a write control circuit. A read-address control circuit reads the image data from the line memories at a display speed, and line data for a letter-box image are generated by multipliers and an adder. Specifically, the line data of m lines which are read from the decoding image memory are transformed to n lines so that a letter-box display is made possible. Thus, letter-box transformation processing is performed with less memory capacity without the use of a field memory.

Abstract: A film image reproduction signal output apparatus is provided which picks up an image on a developed film by a CCD, and produces an image reproduction signal by an image pickup circuit so that the image is displayed on a monitor. The present output apparatus detects whether the film contained in a cartridge loaded in the apparatus is a negative film or a positive film. If the negative film is detected, the image pickup circuit produces the image reproduction signal by reversing an image signal received from the CCD, for display on the monitor.

Abstract: A medical video endoscope system for allowing high-resolution three-dimensional images to be viewed has a stereoscopic endoscope for converting optical images of an object to left and right video image signals. An electronic processor module controls the stereoscopic endoscope and processes the left and right video image signals into time-multiplexed signals representative of high-resolution three-dimensional images having stereoscopic depth. The time-multiplexed signals are provided to a monitor which displays high-resolution video images based on the signals. A viewing device is provided which allows a viewer to see high-resolution three-dimensional video images having stereoscopic depth on the monitor. A rigid sheath assembly with an angled distal tip can be placed over a barrel of the endoscope and rotated with respect thereto in order to change the viewing direction of the stereoscopic endoscope.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in a video signal decoding system for concealing errors in a video signal first detects a lost block in the video signal, the lost block having errors, and then provides pixel values of neighboring blocks for the lost block in the video signal based on information for the lost block. Subsequently, The apparatus computes edge gradients of neighboring pixels included in a predetermined range of pixels surrounding the lost block based on the pixel values of the neighboring blocks and determines a pixel interpolation direction based on the edge gradients of neighboring pixels. A spatially interpolated block is produced based on the pixel values of the neighboring blocks and the pixel interpolation direction and it is provided as a substitution block for compensating the lost block.

Abstract: A run length coding (RLC) is implemented in a coder/decoder unit (CD) in a forward path (VP) and a run length decoding (RLD) is implemented at the beginning of reconstruction in a reconstruction path for an internal reconstruction of the video data stream. As a result an added outlay seems to occur as compared to known methods. However, an interleaving of tasks that were successively implemented in previous methods is thereby enabled. A substantial reduction of the overall outlay compared to known procedures is achieved by the interleaving of the scan method (SV), quantizing (Q) and run length coding (RLC), run length decoding (RLD), inverse quantizing (IQ) and the inverse scan method (ISV).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving an image received from a endoscope having a flexible fiber optic bundle that produces an interstitial grid overlay due to the dead space between each fiber pixel. The interstitial grid pattern in the image, is substantially eliminated by processing the image through a linear digital filter to attenuate the first-order spatial frequency components that contribute most to the interstitial pattern. The filter employs relatively small convolution kernels that are optimized for specific fiber spacing. The image is then processed through the linear digital filter by convolving the respective pixels in the image by the derived coefficients. The image is improved and the grid pattern may also be reduced by a dilation process which involves processing the image through a dilation algorithm to "grow" the bright center of each fiber pixel in the image so that the effect of the grid pattern is reduced.

Abstract: A method for encoding motion picture, a method for decoding motion picture, a motion picture recording medium, and a motion picture encoding apparatus of the present invention can suppress the decrease in information of the fine pattern of an image while mosquito noise is reduced even in a signal band where an SN ratio is low. When a motion picture signal is encoded by using a specified prediction picture signal, a specified operation is applied to the encoded signal, the signal obtained by the calculation is quantized, and the quantized signal is variable-length encoded, a signal band in which the SN ratio of the picture signal is lowered is quantized and emphasized based on a non-linear characteristic. Then, at the decoding side, a decoded signal is inversely quantized and demodulated based on a non-linear characteristic having a characteristic opposite to the encoding side.

Abstract: An ocular fundus camera apparatus includes an ocular fundus camera having an optical lens that transfers first and second image light components which have a parallax therebetween and which can be separated from each other, a memory for storing a predetermined coefficient a based on the shape of the optical lens, and a CCD for converting the first and second image light components into first and second image signals (A, B). The ocular fundus camera apparatus generates first and second image data (L, R) by performing proportional distribution of the first and second image signals in accordance with the predetermined coefficient.

Abstract: A video security system (10) capable of monitoring and recording fixed and moving targets and recording management information into a video signal such that the text can be removed from the video image produced by the video signal at playback of the recorded video signal. The VSS (10) allows a camera (70b) to switch (toggle) between two or more view positions of interest and to set the view positions into memory by pressing a single switch. The cameras (70b) are controlled to move rapidly, but accurately, between the positions within controlled parameters of speed and acceleration--including a period of substantially zero acceleration between changes in the rate of acceleration.

Abstract: A compact and light-weight video scope camera offering easy magnification changing operations. A hollow insert portion continuous to a grip to be held by an operator is provided with an imaging system at the leading end. Operating an operation switch on the grip allows operational movement of a selection mechanism in the insert portion to cyclically or selectively select, from plural preset distance values, a distance between a lens and an image pickup device in the imaging system, corresponding to which distance, the lens or the image pickup device is moved relative to each other by an imaging system component of mechanism to set any one of predetermined magnification modes. This results a compact, light-weight video scope camera offering easy magnification changing operations. The invention is applicable to various video scope cameras for diagnosis and/or treatment in dentistry and orthopedics and also for industrial or educational use.

Abstract: A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing wherein pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D scenery are produced using a camera system records left and right color perspective images thereof and optically processes the spectral components thereof. In another illustrative embodiment, pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D imagery are produced within a computer-based system which generates left and right perspective images thereof using computer graphic processes, and processes the pixel data thereof using pixel-data processing methods.

Abstract: A film image reproducing apparatus for reproducing a film image of each frame of a film, includes: an image pick up device which picks up a film image; a reproducer which is operable to reproduce specified areas of the picked up film image; an information reader which reads information recorded on the film concerning the orientation of the film image; a reproducing direction designator which designates a reproducing direction of images in the areas; and a controller which controls the reproducer based on the read information and the designated reproducing direction so as to reproduce the image areas in the designated reproducing direction while keeping an image in each image area in a specified reference orientation irrespective of the direction of the film image on the film. This apparatus can constantly move an image in a designated direction regardless of the orientation of the film image.

Abstract: A data demultiplexer includes a write controller, a memory, an analyzing processing unit, and transfer control units. The write controller writes packets which have arrived thereat into the memory in the order of arrival and sends the write information to the analyzing processing unit. The analyzing processing unit analyzes packets in the order of arrival on the basis of the write information and sends only the result of analysis to the transfer control units. On the basis of the result of analysis, the transfer control units send data read from the memory in the order of packet arrival to the decoder. A data demultiplexer capable of reducing the processing in the analyzing processing unit can be provided.

Abstract: A Method and apparatus is provided for producing and displaying pairs of spectrally-multiplexed gray-scale or color images of 3-D scenery for use in stereoscopic viewing thereof. In one illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D scenery are produced using a camera system records left and right color perspective images thereof and optically processes the spectral components thereof. In another illustrative embodiment of the present invention, pairs of spectrally-multiplexed color images of 3-D imagery are produced within a computer-based system which generates left and right perspective images thereof using computer graphic processes, and processes the pixel data thereof using pixel-data processing methods of the present invention.