Patents by Inventor Leo Warmuth

Leo Warmuth 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).

  • Patent number: 8711072
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system of reducing motion blur in a liquid crystal cell. A basic idea of the invention is to process, in an LCD system, a luminance component (Y) of a picture frame to provide motion blur reduction, wherein overdrive is applied to the luminance component only. First, a luminance component related to a first picture frame is stored. Thereafter, a luminance component of a subsequent picture frame is acquired. To reduce motion blur in the LCD, a modified luminance component (Y?) is created based on a difference between the value of the luminance component of the subsequent frame and the value of the luminance component related to the first frame. Hence, based on the value of the difference in the luminance components, and color components (U, V) of the subsequent picture frame, a drive voltage is applied to the LC cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Otto Leo Warmuth, Robert Tolkiehn, Roel Van Woudenberg
  • Publication number: 20080279470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system of reducing motion blur in a liquid crystal cell. A basic idea of the invention is to process, in an LCD system, a luminance component (Y) of a picture frame to provide motion blur reduction, wherein overdrive is applied to the luminance component only. First, a luminance component related to a first picture frame is stored. Thereafter, a luminance component of a subsequent picture frame is acquired. To reduce motion blur in the LCD, a modified luminance component (Y?) is created based on a difference between the value of the luminance component of the subsequent frame and the value of the luminance component related to the first frame. Hence, based on the value of the difference in the luminance components, and color components (U,V) of the subsequent picture frame, a drive voltage is applied to the LC cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Otto Leo Warmuth, Robert Tolkiehn, Roel Van Woudenberg
  • Patent number: 5438371
    Abstract: At least a first and a second digital signal, both in parallel form, are converted to a single serial signal and transmitted from a digital color decoder to a signal processing unit so as to avoid picture disturbances in the signal processing unit. The first digital signal is dependent on the instantaneous value of a clock frequency used in the decoder for processing a digital color picture signal, and the second digital signal is dependent on the instantaneous value of a chrominance subcarrier frequency generated in the decoder and used for color decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Rolf-Dieter Gutsmann, Siegfried Bohme, Hartmut Hackmann, Leo Warmuth
  • Patent number: 4409612
    Abstract: Circuit arrangement for separating the components of a PAL color television signal, in which the (digitized) u- and v-signals of the subcarrier frequency are passed through two delay lines which produce different time delays (for example 283.5 and 284 chrominance subcarrier periods): an improved cross-talk attenuation from the luminance signal to the chrominance signals in the lower sideband is then obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Leo Warmuth