Abstract: In display apparatuses, particularly television receivers and monitors, a video picture can be inserted into a main picture (HB) from a first video signal (VS1), in which a second picture (ZB) from a second video signal (VS2) has a first picture format and is composed of picture lines (BZ) and filling lines (FZ). The picture lines (BZ) forming a sub-picture (UB) with the second picture format is adjoined by the filling lines (FZ) in the vertical picture direction. The second picture format of the sub-picture (UB) is determined and the determined second picture format is used for determining the filling lines (FZ). The picture lines (BZ) and a portion of the filling lines (FZ) are inserted as an insertion picture into the main picture (HB). Additional insertions (OSD) from an additional signal, which at least partly lie within the filling lines (FZ), is displaced into the sub-picture (UB).

Abstract: A method and a circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture insertion are described, in which, in order to prevent a write operation from being overtaken by a read operation and also to avoid the associated picture disturbances, a field is stored under an address which precedes a previous field by a number of N lines. A read address is then shifted to the same line of the older field in the event of a minimum distance to a write address being undershot.

Abstract: A method for picture-in-picture insertion is described, which is distinguished in particular by the fact that the inset pictures are written to a memory device (2) in a circulating manner under continuously incremented write addresses, the first and last address of each written-in inset picture is stored, an overtake signal is formed by comparing the instantaneous address with the previously stored address, said signal indicating whether a previous address has been reached again and, consequently, the corresponding picture content has been overwritten, by evaluation of the overtake signal, the current or preceding segment is selected for read-out depending on whether or not overtaking took place before the start of the read-out, and the inset picture stored in the selected segment is read out with continuously incremented read addresses and is inserted into the main picture. A corresponding circuit arrangement is also described.

Abstract: The circuit takes into account whether the image on a screen is too bright, whether more than one specific number of pixels have a luminance value that is greater than a given peak value and whether this condition is met in more than one specific number of lines in a picture and in more than one specific number of successive images with one such number of lines.

Abstract: A method for producing a frame around a video image includes the step of placing subframes around a base frame. The subframes have an offset with respect to the base frame, in order to generate a plastic impression of the frame. The base frame and the subframes are produced from the same frame signal. A device for producing such a frame is also provided. The method and the device are in particular used in picture-in-picture systems.