Abstract: A display device including an array of display blocks, each display block including luminous elements and a driving circuit for the luminous elements; an array of control circuits associated with the display blocks; and a video card receiving an encrypted digital signal to be displayed and sending the encrypted digital data to be displayed to the control circuits Each control circuit includes: a first memory circuit receiving and storing the encrypted digital data; a second memory circuit storing a decryption key; and a decryption circuit decrypting the encrypted digital data using the decryption key.

Abstract: A method for built-in self-test, including the following operations: at a transmitting part, selecting a gold pattern, generating a test pattern using the gold pattern and a header corresponding to the gold pattern, and transmitting the test pattern to a receiving part via a tested path; and at a receiving part, parsing the header and a received pattern from the test pattern received, obtaining the gold pattern corresponding to the header based on the header parsed, and obtaining a test result of the tested path by comparing the gold pattern to the received pattern.

Abstract: Communication devices and systems with correct regeneration of an audio signal are disclosed. In one example, a communication device measures a number of predetermined reference clocks included in one cycle of a frequency divided signal, on the basis of an audio master clock having a frequency obtained by multiplying a frequency of a sampling clock to sample an audio signal, a frequency division ratio of a frequency divided signal of the audio master clock, and a predetermined reference clock. A packet generator generates a packet including information including the measured number, a bit width of serial data (SD) conforming to an Inter-IC Sound (I2S) standard, the frequency of the sampling clock, a frequency division ratio of the frequency divided signal to the audio master clock, a frequency ratio of the frequency of the audio master clock to the frequency of the sampling clock, and the SD.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to facilitating remote expert consultation using a web site that provides for video conferencing between clients and experts who are have been vetted through registration in the system. Some aspects relate to transmission of correlated physiological characteristic data simultaneously with a video conference. Some aspects relate to control of conferencing functions through client and expert web pages.

Abstract: The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured. A dedicated procedure remote may be provided for receiving manual interactions from HC professionals present for a procedure or, alternatively, the local surveillance sub-system may autonomously interact with a personal security token device possessed by the HC professional. A procedure data file is also created that holds all of the pertinent information concerning the procedure that is known by the local surveillance sub-system. The patient procedure surveillance A/V file is given a higher priority than ordinary surveillance data captured by the local surveillance sub-system and is then copied to a nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a computer system having a processor and a main memory storing scrambled data are described. The processor may have a secure zone configured to store keys and an unscrambled zone configured to operate on unscrambled data. The processor can convert the scrambled data into the unscrambled data in the unscrambled zone using the keys retrieved from the secure zone in response to execution of instructions configured to operate on the unscrambled data. Another processor may also be coupled with the memory, but can be prevented from accessing the unscrambled data in the unscrambled zone.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of generating data of a screen suitable for each operation terminal displaying information of an image sensor. An image sensor system has an image sensor that performs an examination of a product and an operation terminal for externally operating the image sensor. In addition, the image sensor system includes a recognition part configured to specify user information of a user who uses the operation terminal and device information of the operation terminal, a determination part configured to determine display information on the examination displayed on a display part used by the operation terminal and a disposition of the display information on the display part on the basis of the specified user information and the specified device information, and a generation part configured to generate data for displaying the display information in the determined disposition on the display part of the operation terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of generating data of a screen suitable for each operation terminal displaying information of an image sensor. An image sensor system has an image sensor that performs an examination of a product and an operation terminal for externally operating the image sensor. In addition, the image sensor system includes a recognition part configured to specify user information of a user who uses the operation terminal and device information of the operation terminal, a determination part configured to determine display information on the examination displayed on a display part used by the operation terminal and a disposition of the display information on the display part on the basis of the specified user information and the specified device information, and a generation part configured to generate data for displaying the display information in the determined disposition on the display part of the operation terminal.

Abstract: An approach is provided for matching vital sign information to a concurrently recorded data set according to a time domain. The approach involves determining sensor information collected from one or more sensors configured to monitor one or more vital signs of one or more objects within a monitored area. The approach also involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the sensor information to detect the one or more objects and to track the one or more vital signs of the one or more objects over a time domain. The approach further involves matching the one or more vital signs of the one or more objects to a concurrently recorded data set based on the time domain. The approach further involves storing at least one record of the one or more vital signs matched to the concurrently recorded data set.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for a guidance application that allows a practitioner to easily correlate a fluctuation in any channel of a plurality of channels constituting received electroencephalography (“EEG”) data to a particular physical manifestation. For example, the guidance application automatically synchronizes incoming EEG data to the physical manifestations and allows for automatic retrieval a portion of video data (e.g., of the physical manifestation) that corresponds to a selected portion of EEG data.

Abstract: A system for observing and analyzing customer opinions is disclosed. The system includes one or more cameras, a focus tracking module, an observation module, an interpretation module, and a rating module. The focus tracking module uses the one or more cameras to determine a product having a focus of a person, the product having a plurality of characteristics. The observation module uses the one or more cameras to monitor one or more physical, physiological, or behavioral characteristics of the person with respect to the product. The interpretation module determines an opinion of the person regarding the product. The rating module adjusts one or more ratings of the product in response to the interpretation module determining the opinion of the person regarding the product.

Abstract: The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured. A dedicated procedure remote may be provided for receiving manual interactions from HC professionals present for a procedure or, alternatively, the local surveillance sub-system may autonomously interact with a personal security token device possessed by the HC professional. A procedure data file is also created that holds all of the pertinent information concerning the procedure that is known by the local surveillance sub-system. The patient procedure surveillance A/V file is given a higher priority than ordinary surveillance data captured by the local surveillance sub-system and is then copied to a nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a buffer configured to store audio data of an audio stream; and a processor configured to decode the audio data stored in the buffer, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a reproducing time corresponding to the audio data stored in the buffer, compare the reproducing time and a predetermined reproducing time, and control a storage amount of the audio data in the buffer so that an amount of the audio data corresponding to the predetermined reproducing time can be maintained in the buffer.

Abstract: A system for providing information to a user includes a screen for showing the information to the user, a receiver for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based, a generator for generating two or more data lines wherein each of said data lines comprises at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprise data which are based on said values and wherein the data sets are assigned to at least two data lines by predetermined or changeable criteria, a displayer for simultaneously showing said two or more data lines to the user on said screen, and a mover for moving at least one of said data lines on the screen, wherein the mover comprises an adjuster for adjusting a speed of the movement of the at least one data line depending on a criterion relating to the at least one data set comprised in the data line.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for converting, to a digital video signal, an analog video signal capable of having a variety of resolutions. A video reception apparatus determines a format of an analog video signal by sampling the analog video signal. The video reception apparatus converts the analog video signal to a digital video signal based on the determined format. A comb filter is used to separate a color difference signal and a luminance signal from the digital video signal, and the digital video signal is reconfigured using the luminance signal and the color difference signal.

Abstract: A display panel includes: a driver section configured to generate a first pixel packet including digital luminance data; a plurality of unit pixels successively connected, each of the unit pixels configured to perform a display operation, based on the digital luminance data of the first pixel packet, and one or more of the unit pixels configured to perform a detection operation of a physical quantity thereof to generate a second pixel packet including digital detection data acquired by the detection operation and then output the second pixel packet to a subsequent one of the unit pixels; and a receiver section configured to receive the second pixel packet.

Abstract: A method and receiving device are provided that determine a synchronization byte in a plurality of transport stream packets, wherein the synchronization byte has a predetermined synchronization value. The method/receiving device receives, via a receiver, a portion of a first transport stream packet of the plurality of transport stream packets; detects, starting from the beginning of the portion of a first transport stream packet, a continuous four byte pattern that does not include the predetermined synchronization value; detects a first occurrence of a byte having the predetermined synchronization value; detects a subsequent byte separated from the first occurrence by a predetermined byte length; determines a byte value of the subsequent byte; and validates that the first occurrence is the synchronization byte based on a comparison of the byte value and the predetermined synchronization value.

Abstract: This invention describes a system and methods for media content subscription service distribution; typical services include cable television, premium content channels, pay-per-view, XM radio, and online mp3 services. Subscribers use portable electronic devices to store digital certificates certifying the subscriber's privileges and an assigned public key. The devices can communicate with specially enabled televisions, radios, computers, or other media presentation apparatuses. These, in turn, can communicate with central databases owned by the provider, for verification purposes. Methods of the invention describe media content subscription service privilege issuing and use. The invention additionally describes methods for protecting media content transmitted to users with a variety of encryption schemes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission apparatus and a corresponding transmission method for transmitting data within a multi-carrier transmission system comprising two or more transmission apparatuses that are configured to transmit the same data.

Abstract: Methods for transforming a non-transformed stored logical data object (LO) into a transformed LO are provided. One method includes: a) in response to a respective transformation request, logically dividing the non-transformed LO into a segment and one or more non-transformed subsequent segments, each segment having a predefined size; b) generating a header for the respective transformed LO; c) processing said segment; d) overwriting said segment by said generated header and said transformed segment; e) indexing said transformed segment and said one or more non-transformed subsequent segments as constituting a part of said transformed LO; f) generating at least one index section; and g) updating the indication in the header to point that the non-transformed LO has been transformed in the transformed LO including said generated header, said transformed segment, said one or more subsequent segments including data in non-transformed form and said at least one index section.

Abstract: In the method of rate-matching, software is used to calculate at least one rate-matching parameter for data, and dedicated hardware is used to perform at least one of a puncturing and repetition process on data based on the calculated rate-matching parameter. In rate de-matching, software is again used to calculate at least one rate de-matching parameter for received data, and dedicated hardware is used to compensate for puncturing and repetition based on the calculated rate de-matching parameter.

Abstract: A recordable and/or rewriteable recording medium for storing still picture data, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. The recording medium stores still picture group information for grouping a plurality of still pictures in order to manage the still picture at a group level, and stores audio group information for grouping additional audio data added to the still picture data after the still picture data are recorded. Therefore, large-capacity still picture data and additional audio data added thereto can be recorded using a minimum amount of management information. Further, during reproduction, data can be displayed and edited in units of the respective still pictures. Also, it is possible to cope with after-recording of the audio data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects a program (60 or 62) listed in displayed schedule information (50), the system (10) reads the source identifier attached to the program's channel (52). The system (10) then carries out an automatic switching/tuning such that the required source device (26, 28, 30 or 34) is input to the destination device (22), and a tuner is then tuned to the selected program's channel (52).

Abstract: In an interactive broadcasting system, television programming may be broadcast with interleaved web content information. The progress in broadcasting the web content information over one or more transports and over one or more channels within those transports, may be monitored to provide a time based indication of what content has been broadcast. In one embodiment, markers may be inserted into the data transmission flow and a method may be utilized to associate a handle with a particular marker. A method may be called which obtains the handle and another method may be utilized to invoke the handle to obtain current information about broadcast transmissions. This information may be used within a broadcast encoder or may be provided to a content provider, for example, through a log-in server.

Abstract: A video formatter reformats progressive video using a film-based video film rate and a display refresh rate to determine a frame OFF period for a progressive video sequence. The video formatter inserts at least one black frame into the progressive video sequence to approximate the frame OFF period. Typically, the film rate is 24 frames per second (industry standard) and, thus, the display refresh rate can be a multiple of the frame rate (e.g., 96 Hz, 120 Hz, 240 Hz, etc.). Progressive video replicates a single frame of a film several times (“a progressive video sequence”) depending on a display's refresh rate. The black frame(s) is/are substituted at the end of this sequence instead of displaying the same image throughout for a single film frame.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for controlling the output of a display unit to meet various requirements of the user, and an output control apparatus employing the same.

Abstract: An exterior rearview mirror for vehicles, in particular for passenger vehicles, has a mirror foot which can be fixed on a front door below a vehicle belt line. The vehicle has a door formed of an outer panel which is provided with an opening, and an inner reinforcement. An extremely rigid, play-free and simply configured connection of the mirror foot to the inner reinforcement of the door is obtained in that a lower end region of a supporting part of the mirror foot is guided through the opening in the outer panel and is connected within the door directly to the inner reinforcement of the door via a self-centering mounting and a central fastening screw.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a source device for wirelessly transmitting a video signal, and a sink device for receiving the wirelessly transmitted video signal and displaying the received video signal on a display, the sink device reads out EDID information from a ROM and wirelessly transmits a wireless data signal including the EDID information to the source device. The source device wirelessly receives the wireless data signal including the EDID information and wirelessly transmitted from the sink device, and wirelessly transmits the video signal to the sink device based on the EDID information.

Abstract: A video receiving apparatus having an input terminal to receive pixel-based video data transmitted with pixel clock synchronized with the video data is provided. The video receiving apparatus may include a separation unit, an information acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The separation unit may be configured to separate auxiliary data added to the video data from the video data obtained at the input terminal. The information acquisition unit may be configured to acquire information on the number of horizontal pixels and the number of vertical pixels for the input video data from the auxiliary data separated at the separation unit. The determination unit may be configured to determine a type of the input video data based on the information on the number of horizontal pixels and the number of vertical pixels that is obtained at the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a transmitted/received data decoding method and apparatus, which achieve effects of decoding performance improvement and synchronous detection. The decoding method includes setting a coded edge pattern, and filtering a received data by using the set coded edge pattern as a window; respectively computing absolute values of filtered values filtered by using the coded edge pattern windows; detecting a maximum absolute value from the computed absolute values; determining a sign (+/?) for the detected maximum absolute value; outputting an intermediate bit value of the corresponding original data as a resultant decoded value according to the determined sign and a window type (i.e. coded edge patter) with the selected maximum absolute value.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for searching a start position of a broadcast program. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a received broadcast program is recorded in a recording medium while being output as video and audio. If a new broadcast program is started, position information regarding a start part of the new broadcast program is stored in a memory. Thus, a current broadcast program is reproduced from a start part by searching a start position of the current broadcast program recorded in the recording medium with reference to stored position information. A determination on whether the new broadcast program is started is done on the basis of Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information or a change in audio and video signals. Accordingly, it is possible to quickly search and reproduce a start part of a broadcast program which is currently recorded.

Abstract: A computer motherboard includes a display controller, a digital visual interface integrated (DVI-I) connector, and a switching unit. The switching unit includes four first terminals, two second terminals, and a control terminal. Two of the first terminals are respectively connected to clock and data pins of a first display data channel (DDC) of the display controller, the other two first terminals are respectively connected to clock and data pins of a second DDC of the display controller, and the second terminals are respectively connected to DDC clock and DDC data pins of the DVI-I connector. The control terminal is connected to a hot plug detect pin of the DVI-I connector to detect a voltage and correspondingly control the second terminals to be respectively connected to the two first terminals connected to the clock and data pins of the first DDC or the second DDC.

Abstract: A video data transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a data transmitting module configured to be able to arrange video data in a first video format, into a valid data area of a first transmission format, and transmit the video data, and also to arrange video data in a second video format different from the first video format, into an effective valid data area within the valid data area of the first transmission format, and transmit the video data; and a data receiving module configured to receive the data transmitted in the first transmission format from the data transmitting module, and obtain the video data in the second video format within the valid data area. A receiver module seamlessly obtains the video data immediately after change of the video format of the video data from a transmitter module.

Abstract: In an interactive broadcasting system, television programming may be broadcast with interleaved web content information. The progress in broadcasting the web content information over one or more transports and over one or more channels within those transports, may be monitored to provide a time based indication of what content has been broadcast. In one embodiment, markers may be inserted into the data transmission flow and a method may be utilized to associate a handle with a particular marker. A method may be called which obtains the handle and another method may be utilized to invoke the handle to obtain current information about broadcast transmissions. This information may be used within a broadcast encoder or may be provided to a content provider, for example, through a log-in server.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus which externally transmits a radio signal containing at least a main information portion, includes a main information output unit that outputs a signal containing the main information portion; a dummy component output unit that outputs a dummy component including one or more alternating-current signals having a predetermined frequency component; a dummy inserting unit that inserts the dummy component into at least a part of a gap portion in the signal containing the main information portion, the gap portion being a portion where the main information portion does not exist; and a radio transmitting unit that externally transmits the signal which contains the main information portion and the dummy component inserted, by radio.

Abstract: A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. A best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output. The synchronization signal receipt time thus determined is compared to the expected time based upon the slave clock, which is adjusted until the times match. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a video signal multiplexing apparatus including a separator separating picture information and additional information from a received video signal, a controller adjusting, if the picture information is out of sync with the additional information, a data amount of the additional information based on a data amount of the picture information in such a manner that the picture information is in sync with the additional information, and a multiplexer multiplexing the encoded data and the additional information the data amount of which has been adjusted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light quantity measuring apparatus capable of properly measuring, in short time, light to be measured whose quantity fluctuates periodically. Charges generated and stored in photodiodes during a measurement period are read in a plurality of times. A control unit obtains pixel data according to quantity of the charges generated and stored by the photodiodes in a plurality of storage periods obtained by dividing a measurement period. Further, the control unit adds up the plurality of pieces of pixel data, and calculates pixel data according to the quantities of charges generated and stored by the photodiodes in the measurement period.

Abstract: In an interactive broadcasting system, television programming may be broadcast with interleaved web content information. The progress in broadcasting the web content information over one or more transports and over one or more channels within those transports, may be monitored to provide a time based indication of what content has been broadcast. In one embodiment, markers may be inserted into the data transmission flow and a method may be utilized to associate a handle with a particular marker. A method may be called which obtains the handle and another method may be utilized to invoke the handle to obtain current information about broadcast transmissions. This information may be used within a broadcast encoder or may be provided to a content provider, for example, through a log-in server.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for generating a first clock frequency for a plurality of digital data bursts compressed in time, where each of the plurality of digital data bursts has been multiplexed into one of a plurality of data blocks of higher speed digital data. The system and method includes acquiring the width in data elements of a digital data burst and the width in data elements of a data block of higher speed digital data. The width of one period of a clock pulse is computed at the first clock frequency. A clock pulse is generated at the first clock frequency.

Abstract: A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a TMDS-like link, in which video data and auxiliary data (typically including timing data associated with other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, or in which video data are transmitted over the link from the transmitter to the receiver, and auxiliary data (typically including timing data associated with other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the receiver to the transmitter. In typical embodiments the auxiliary data include one or more streams of audio data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for connecting a plurality of digital video recorders to a plurality of video transmitters via first transmission lines and for connecting the plurality of digital video recorders to a playback receiver via second transmission lines. The playback receiver incorporates an external synchronizing generator for externally synchronizing the plurality of the digital video recorders and the video transmitters. The recorders receiving the video signals generate and inject into the output signals a signal corresponding to identification codes allotted to each video signals. The playback receiver has a selection control circuit receiving selectively and synchronously any individually coded playback or monitored signal, or multiple playback or monitored signals which are displayed individually or in a split screen, respectively.

Abstract: This invention teaches an apparatus and method for merging information transmitted in vertical blanking interval (VBIs) of several services into a single VBI. The system includes a pair of memories for each service wherein each memory is toggled between a read and write cycle. While the first memory is in a write cycle, the second memory is in a read cycle and vice versa. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) controls the first and second pairs of memory to merge the VBIs.

Abstract: A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for individual programming events that make up the program. The system may then produce closed caption data for the program. The closed caption data may include text data corresponding to the script data, and timing data provided at locations that correspond to the beginning of each of the programming events. The timing data may comprise an identifier of the corresponding programming event. Further timing data may be provided that marks the ends of programming events, or that marks individual segments within a programming event. Related embodiments may pertain to systems that implement such processing. The closed caption data may be synchronized to a video signal based on the display of corresponding text by a teleprompter system that is used in the production of the video program.

Abstract: A system in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video and auxiliary data) are transmitted over a serial link. Other aspects of the invention are transmitters for use in encoding data for transmission over a serial link, receivers for receiving such data, and methods for sending encoded data over a serial link. Source data to be transmitted are encoded using a subset of a full set of code words. The subset consists of preferred code words. Disjoint clusters of code words in the full set are predetermined. Each cluster includes one or more of the preferred words, and optionally also at least one additional code word that is similar to a preferred word of the cluster in the sense that it is likely to be generated as a result of probable bit errors in transmission, or transmission and decoding, of such preferred word. Each preferred word of a cluster is indicative of a single source data value. Each received code word in a cluster is mapped to the source data value determined by each preferred word of the cluster.

Abstract: In a baseband video transmission system for transmission of a video signal at a baseband based on the DVI standard, a transmitting device multiplexes a data signal representing data other than video during at least one blanking period of component video signals of the video signal to generate a DVI signal. A receiving device receives the DVI signal, and extracts the data signal from the received DVI signal.

Abstract: The present invention is relative to a video signal transmitting/receiving system in which digital video signals are transmitted from a transmitter (30) to a receiver (50) using a line (9) as a transmission channel. The transmitter (30) converts the video signals to be transmitted to a bit string longer in data length than a pixel making up the video signals, allocates a plural number of the bit strings to a blanking period during which pixel data in the pixel string is not transmitted and, using these bit strings, transmits the same superposed data a plural number of times. The receiver (50) extracts the specified bit strings indicating the blanking period from the received data and performs majority processing on the results of demodulation of the extracted bit strings to decide on output data. This reduces errors in reception of supplementary data to simplify the circuit structure as well as to ameliorate the error rate.

Abstract: A method and system for decoding and storing encoded coupon data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An electronic coupon displays representations of coupons defined by coupon data that can be extracted from an encoded video signal that can be broadcast or played-back from video tape. The electronic coupon is equipped with a non-volatile memory that permits the coupon data to be stored for display subsequent to the transmission session (e.g., a televised program). The electronic coupon has a set-up mode which allows a user to pre-select types of coupons that the user would like to receive. Coupon data satisfying the user's selections will be stored in the electronic coupon, while coupon data not satisfying the user's selections will not be stored. A decoder extracts the coupon data from an encoded video signal and transmits the coupon data to the electronic coupon via a receiver of electronic contacts.

Abstract: An image processing system whose circuit size is small, and whose dissipation power is small is provided. The image processing system executes digital image processing of an interval of active pixel in the condition that a first internal logic description is written in a field programmable gate array. Subsequently, in interval of non-active pixel with the exception of the interval of active pixel, the image processing system executes digital control processing in the condition that the first internal logic description of the field programmable gate array is rewritten to a second internal logic description. The image processing system executes again the digital image processing in the condition that the second internal logic description of the field programmable gate array is rewritten to the first internal logic description.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image decoding apparatus, a semiconductor device, and a image decoding method, capable of outputting images simultaneously using different formats. In the image decoding apparatus, an MPEG decoding portion 1 decodes an inputting coded data and stores the decoded data in an external memory portion 12. A decoded data reading portion 2 reads decoded data in the image output sequence from the external memory portion 12 and outputs the decoded data as the decoded data signal B1. A first image format converting portion 3-1 converts the decoded data signal B1 into a prescribed image format and outputs a first image output. Furthermore, a second image format converting portion 3-2 converts the decoded data signal B1 into a prescribed image format and outputs a second image output after synchronizing a second vertical image synchronizing signal A2, which is synchronized with a first vertical image synchronizing signal A1.