Color Television Patents (Class 348/566)
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Patent number: 11482195Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display system that includes an acquisition device, a detection device, a display processing device, and a correction processing device. The acquisition device acquires speed information indicating a speed of a moving body. The detection device detects a posture variation amount of the moving body. The display processing device controls a display position of an image based on a reference position and a correction amount. The correction processing device sets the correction amount based on the speed and the posture variation amount. The correction processing device estimates whether or not the correction amount becomes equal to or more than a predetermined amount based on the speed and the posture variation amount, and adjusts the correction amount based on the estimation result.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Matsui, Norikazu Katsuyama
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Patent number: 11016788Abstract: A method for launching an application of a display device is provided. A first user interface comprising at least one icon for an application is displayed on a display screen of the display device. It is determined whether a hold duration of a focus on a target icon exceeds a preset time period, the target icon is an icon of a target application. In response to the hold duration exceeding the preset time period, the first user interface is updated by a second user interface comprising a display window superimposed on the first user interface, the display window presents a display interface of the target application. It is determined whether an activation instruction for the target icon is received. In response to the activation instruction, the second user interface is updated by a third user interface that is a display interface displaying the target application in a full-screen mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dayong Wang, Guanghai Zhuang, Jianye Hei
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Patent number: 10388290Abstract: A sample counter in each channel performs counting operation at a given rate. Independently for each channel, the rate and an initial value for the counter are set, and start and stop of the counting operation of the counter are controlled, so that a partial portion of an original waveform corresponding to a count range from the set initial value to a count stop point is reproduced in the channel. A control section sets the initial values in individual ones of a set of channels, selected from among the channels, such that sample values at different sample positions of the original waveform are simultaneously retrieved in individual ones of the set of channels, and controls an overlap adder to add up the retrieved sample values, so that sample values of an audio waveform signal with a plurality of partial portions of the original waveform, partially overlapping each other are output.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Taro Shirahama
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Patent number: 10136188Abstract: Data associated with content available for immediate viewing is aggregated into a program guide. A plurality of content sources for content available for immediate viewing is mined to obtain data associated with the content available for immediate viewing from the plurality of content sources. The mined data is processed to create a program guide identifying the content available for immediate viewing. The program guide displaying the identified content available for immediate viewing is presented to a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INCInventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, Jay Paul Langa, Anant Pralhad Patil
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Patent number: 9792916Abstract: A sample counter in each channel performs counting operation at a given rate. Independently for each channel, the rate and an initial value for the counter are set, and start and stop of the counting operation of the counter are controlled, so that a partial portion of an original waveform corresponding to a count range from the set initial value to a count stop point is reproduced in the channel. A control section sets the initial values in individual ones of a set of channels, selected from among the channels, such that sample values at different sample positions of the original waveform are simultaneously retrieved in individual ones of the set of channels, and controls an overlap adder to add up the retrieved sample values, so that sample values of an audio waveform signal with a plurality of partial portions of the original waveform, partially overlapping each other are output.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Taro Shirahama
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Patent number: 9596428Abstract: Disclosure is generally directed to a television receiver with multiple inputs, some accepting a local broadcast and some accepting satellite transmissions or transmissions across another network. The television receiver may pass local transmissions through to a display in their original form and at their original frequency, while retuning the display to receive the transmission at its original frequency. The television receiver may also receive, process and provide satellite or other types of programming to the television as necessary. The output of the receiver's modulator may switch back and forth as a user changes between local broadcast and satellite channels. Further, an EPG may be provided that includes information for both programming sources in an integrated fashion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.Inventor: Markus Wayne Jackson
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Publication number: 20150109533Abstract: A projection type display device includes projection means that projects an input image, representing an object on a background and that corresponds to an input video signal, onto a projection surface on which a user writes information, and processing means that, upon receiving a photographing instruction, stops projection by the projection means and photographs the projection surface to generate a photographed image, and detects the difference between the color of the background in the input image and the color of the projection surface in the photographed image, to generate a corrected image by correcting the color of the input image or the photographed image so as to reduce the difference, and generates a recorded image by superimposing the corrected image on the remaining input image or the photographed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventor: Hiroaki Ikeda
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Patent number: 8866970Abstract: A method for embedding an image in a video sequence for a mobile terminal. Preferably, the mobile terminal is a tablet or smartphone. The method comprises the steps of choosing an image to be embedded, reading the video sequence, displaying a frame, and determining the presence of an embedding zone in the frame. The embedding zone having been previously identified or deduced according to a predefined algorithm. The method further comprises the step of applying a deformation to the image to be embedded such that the image to be embedded coincides with the form of the embedding zone. The image combining the frame and the image to be embedded is displayed/disposed in place of the embedding zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: PhonitiveInventor: Guillaume Lemoine
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Patent number: 8839293Abstract: A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Personalized Media Communications, LLCInventors: John Christopher Harvey, James William Cuddihy
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Patent number: 8823881Abstract: A control device controls a television. The control device includes a touch module. The control device displays a menu containing a number of soft keys on a screen. The soft keys are activated to control the television to carry out corresponding functions. All positions on the menu are associated with all positions on the touch module correspondingly. As a result, a user can select desired soft keys to carry out corresponding functions by viewing the menu on the television and touching the touch module, rather than viewing the touch module.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chih-Chun Chang
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Patent number: 8760584Abstract: A memory space configuration method applied in a video signal processing apparatus is provided. The method includes: arranging a first memory space and a second memory space in a memory, the first and second memory spaces being partially overlapped; determining a type of a signal source; when the signal source is a first video signal source, enabling a first processing circuit and buffering data associated with the first video signal source by using the first memory space; and, when the signal source is a second video signal source, enabling a second processing circuit and buffering data associated with the second video signal source by using the second memory space. The second processing circuit is disabled when the first processing circuit is enabled; the first processing circuit is disabled when the second processing circuit is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: MSTAR Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Po-Jen Yang
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Patent number: 8754987Abstract: A display device includes a display component coupled to a signal generating unit with a single trace. The signal generating unit generates a first signal. A processing unit, connected to the display component and the single trace, receives the first signal through the single trace and generates a first type control signal, a second type control signal, and a third type control signal according to the first signal. The processing unit generates and controls an on-screen display menu displayed by the display component according to status of the display device and the received first signal as one of the first type control signal, the second type control signal, and the third type control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ching-Chang Hsu, Wen-Kang Wei, Yung-Hung Ho, Chien-Yu Hsiung
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Patent number: 8730319Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image data generating unit and a display unit. The image data generating unit generates image data on an image. The display unit presents a video including the image data to an image viewer on a moving body to superimpose the video on an actual outside scene. The image data includes a first display object and a second display object. The first display object includes a lower part object. The lower part object has a lower part, an upper right part and an upper left part. A length of the lower part along a normal direction is longer than lengths of the upper right and upper left parts. The second display object is disposed in the image with reference to a display position of the first display object. The second display object includes information on the moving body.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masahiro Sekine, Takashi Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20140111691Abstract: A mechanism for memory reduction in picture-in-picture video generation is disclosed. A method of embodiments of the invention includes receiving, from a transmitting device, a plurality of video streams at a receiving device coupled to the transmitting device, wherein a first video stream of the plurality of video streams is designated to be displayed as a main video and one or more other video streams of the plurality of video streams are designated to be displayed as one or more sub videos to the main video.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.Inventors: Daekyeung Kim, Wooseung Yang, Young II Kim, Jeoong Sung Park, Hoon Choi
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Patent number: 8654253Abstract: A video apparatus includes a video processor for performing video processing to generate normal video data. The video processor includes an on-screen display (OSD) module for selectively generating OSD data that is capable of being mixed into the normal video data. The video apparatus further includes a digital output path including a digital transmitter and an analog output path including a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The video apparatus is capable of outputting OSD data through an unauthorized output path out of the digital and analog output paths to provide a user with a warning message or an interactive help dialogue.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventors: Hsiang-Sung Huang, Ting-Hsun Wei, Hua Wu
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Patent number: 8265461Abstract: A method for scaling subpicture data comprises receiving a video data stream and a subpicture data stream; pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain line information of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and bottom field pixel data; calculating the number of lines contained in the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data from the pre-parsed line information; interlacing the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data; and scaling the top and bottom field pixel data together in interlaced form for adjusting the number of lines contained in the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventor: Yu-Ching Hsieh
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Publication number: 20120008048Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image data generating unit and a display unit. The image data generating unit generates image data on an image. The display unit presents a video including the image data to an image viewer on a moving body to superimpose the video on an actual outside scene. The image data includes a first display object and a second display object. The first display object includes a lower part object. The lower part object has a lower part, an upper right part and an upper left part. A length of the lower part along a normal direction is longer than lengths of the upper right and upper left parts. The second display object is disposed in the image with reference to a display position of the first display object. The second display object includes information on the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiro Sekine, Takashi Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara
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METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PREVIEWING CONTENTS FROM MULTIPLE PROTECTED SOURCES
Publication number: 20110157473Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for simultaneously previewing contents from multiple protected sources. A primary data stream associated with a primary port is generated, the primary data stream having a primary image to be displayed on a display screen. A secondary data stream is generated associated with a plurality of secondary ports coupled with the primary port, the secondary data stream having a plurality of secondary images received from the plurality of secondary ports. The secondary data stream and the primary data stream are merged into a display data stream, the display data stream having the primary image and further having the plurality of secondary images as a plurality of preview images. The primary image and the plurality of preview images are displayed on the display screen, wherein each of the plurality of preview images is displayed through an inset screen on the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Hoon Choi, Daekyeung Kim, Wooseung Yang, Young Il Kim, Jeoong Sung Park -
Patent number: 7715690Abstract: This invention relates to an information processing apparatus for recording a first picture supplied and for reproducing a second picture recorded, the apparatus comprising: recording means for recording the first picture; reproducing means for reproducing the second picture; and display controlling means for providing display control in such a manner as to display a first screen through which to input orders for operating the recording means, and a second screen through which to input orders for operating the reproducing means.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Nomura, Tatsuo Eguchi, Yasuhiko Terashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamaguchi, Kumiko Sasaki, Makoto Niijima, Ai Suzuki
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Patent number: 7545937Abstract: A video system (100) includes a chrominance processing arrangement (200). The chrominance processing arrangement (200) includes a burst accumulator (240) operative to detect a polarity inversion within a burst interval associated with a horizontal line of video information, and generate at least one output signal that compensates for the detected polarity inversion.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Mark Francis Rumreich
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Patent number: 7526186Abstract: A method for scaling subpicture data comprises receiving a video data stream and a subpicture data stream; pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain line information of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and bottom field pixel data; calculating the number of lines contained in the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data from the pre-parsed line information; interlacing the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data; scaling the top and bottom field pixel data together in interlaced form for adjusting the number of lines contained in the top field pixel data and the bottom field pixel data; separating the scaled pixel data into updated top field pixel data and updated bottom field pixel data; and separately storing the updated top field pixel data and the updated bottom field pixel data in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Mediatek IncorporationInventor: Yu-Ching Hsieh
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Patent number: 7522218Abstract: Display devices and methods for controlling the same are provided, which can display text along with video that satisfy prescribed visual criteria. Accordingly, the text can be more easily seen by a viewer. A method can include a) detecting color information of a text and color information of a video from received broadcasting signals, b) determining a color difference between the video and the text based on the two color information, c) comparing the determined color difference with a reference value, and d) controlling the color difference between the text and the video depending on the compared result.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Su Jung Lyu
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Patent number: 7512962Abstract: A multichannel display data generating apparatus for generating data for displaying AV data on a multiscreen has a plurality of screens for displaying AV data of a plurality of channels, said apparatus comprising: input means for inputting AV data of a plurality of channels being transferred using a transport packet of a transport stream; a smaller number of PCR extracting means for extracting in a time-sharing mode the PCR of a plurality of channels displayed on said plurality of screens than the number of said plurality of screens; the same number of PLL means for establishing PLL synchronization by using said extracted PCR as the number of said plurality of screens; the same number of STC (system time clock) counter means for counting the times of the channels displayed on said plurality of screens by using the oscillation frequency of said PLL means as the number of said plurality of screens; AV decoding means for AV-decoding the AV data of the channels displayed on said multiscreen in AV synchronizatiType: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shoichi Gotoh, Yoshiki Kuno, Hiroyuki Iitsuka, Masazumi Yamada, Ryogo Yanagisawa, Hirotoshi Uehara, Toshiaki Tsuji
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Patent number: 7414672Abstract: A method for processing video signals for a video signal processing apparatus is provided which is capable of processing and displaying a plurality of video signals through different paths. The method includes the steps of standardizing the respective video signals being processed through the different paths, and performing a white balance adjustment on the basis of a specified one of the plurality of video signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Hag Ryang Gim
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Patent number: 7224403Abstract: A method and apparatus for allowing a television viewer to quickly and easily relate the teams' names and scores to the players are disclosed. The teams' names and scores are presented on a small scoreboard or banner on the television screen, and either the backgrounds of the names and scores or the names and scores themselves are colored the same color as the selected uniform portions of the respective teams. This can also be applied to presentations of statistics.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Raymond E. Bowden
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Patent number: 7206029Abstract: A video display device, such as a television, having a picture-in-picture (PIP) display and a processor. The processor detects cues, such as color/texture/events/behaviors, etc., present in a primary display image, that is overlaid by the PIP. These cues are utilized by the processor to determine important and relatively unimportant portions of the primary display image. The processor then determines whether a change in a display characteristic of the PIP leads to the PIP obscuring less of an important portion of the primary display image, and if so, the processor changes the display characteristic of the PIP. Display characteristics of the PIP that may be changed by the processor include the PIP position, size, and transparency. The processor may also utilize a combination of the detected cues to determine important and relatively unimportant portions of the primary display image. The processor may also change combinations of display characteristics of the PIP.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Eric Cohen-Solal
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Patent number: 6924846Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains a first image and display timing information of the first image via a first channel, and a second image via a second channel different from the first channel. The information processing apparatus includes a main CPU for processing the obtained second image in accordance with the contents of the first image, and a CRTC for outputting the obtained first image, the processed second image and the display timing information to a predetermined display unit to display a combined image obtained by combining the first and second images on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Ohba, Masayuki Chatani
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Patent number: 6822699Abstract: A main picture is displayed in monochrome in a main picture display area by emission of a first phosphor layer formed of a white emission phosphor. A second phosphor layer formed of a phosphor different from the first phosphor layer is provided in a region different from the first phosphor layer. Icons are displayed in the icon display area in a color different from the main picture by emission of the second phosphor layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koichi Furui
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Patent number: 6788308Abstract: Display data comprising text and a background are processed. A combination of the text and background is evaluated against one or more objective criteria to provide one or more objective values. A determination is made whether the one or more objective values exceed one or more respective thresholds that are indicative of text-background combinations that are difficult to read. The text or the background or both are adjusted if any of the one or more thresholds is exceeded, so that the one or more thresholds are no longer exceeded after the adjusting.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: TVGateway,LLCInventors: Maire Reavy, Randell Jesup
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Publication number: 20040127201Abstract: A cellular telephone has a function of reproducing image signals and/or sound signals, corresponding to execution of a karaoke function and/or a game function. The cellular phone has conversion means for converting the image signals and/or the sound signals into TV broadcasting signals, and transmission means for transmitting the TV broadcasting signals to a TV receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Ken Takayama, Tomohiro Iwanaga
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Patent number: 6678006Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing DVD video data and sub-picture data is accomplished by storing a line of DVD video data and at least a partially decoded portion of DVD sub-picture data. The partially decoded DVD sub-picture data is still in an encoded format, which may be two bits per pixel, but line information has been decoded from the DVD subpicture data stream. Once stored, the DVD video data is retrieved from the memory and scaled to produce scaled video data. Similarly, the partially decoded sub-picture data is retrieved from memory, further decoded, and scaled to produce scaled sub-picture data. The scaled video data is blended with the scaled sub-picture data to produce a video output.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1998Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robertson Velez, David Yeh, Philip L. Swan, David Glen
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Patent number: 6642934Abstract: An on-screen display (OSD) processor, processing method and article of manufacture are provided having a color mapped mode, direct color mode, and 4:2:2 profile mode. The OSD processor implements both color mapped OSD region processing capability and direct color OSD region processing capability, along with an ability to store quantizer coefficients for the 4:2:2 profile mode of a video decoder coupled to the OSD processor. The capabilities of the OSD processor are implemented using a common embedded memory within the processor. During color mapped OSD region processing, color table data is temporarily stored within the embedded memory, while in direct color OSD region processing, direct color descriptions are stored within the embedded memory. When the video decoder is decoding a 4:2:2 formatted image, the embedded memory of the OSD processor is used to temporarily store inverse quantization data for the decode function.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David A. Hrusecky, Bryan J. Lloyd
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Patent number: 6542162Abstract: An on-screen display (OSD) processor, processing method and article of manufacture are provided having a color mapped mode, direct color mode, and 4:2:2 profile mode. The OSD processor implements both color mapped OSD region processing capability and direct color OSD region processing capability, along with an ability to store quantizer coefficients for the 4:2:2 profile mode of a video decoder coupled to the OSD processor. The capabilities of the OSD processor are implemented using a common embedded memory within the processor. During color mapped OSD region processing, color table data is temporarily stored within the embedded memory, while in direct color OSD region processing, direct color descriptions are stored within the embedded memory. When the video decoder is decoding a 4:2:2 formatted image, the embedded memory of the OSD processor is used to temporarily store inverse quantization data for the decode function.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1998Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David A. Hrusecky, Bryan J. Lloyd
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Publication number: 20020149698Abstract: This is a patent application for a method of color presentation on the split-screen, mini-scoreboard portion of televised sporting events which will readily allow viewers to relate the teams listed on the scoreboard directly to the players on the field, court, or rink. The invention is entitled “Scoreboard Tied to Players.” It is submitted by Raymond E. Bowden, 1940 W. Idaho Blvd., Emmett, Idaho 83617.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventor: Raymond E. Bowden
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Patent number: 6421094Abstract: A HDTV video processor includes a data input part for processing the video data having different image formats, format information and control signals; a memory interfacer for imaging the access to the memory, a format converter converting the input data format to the output data format, an On Screen Display processor overlaying an OSD data on the converted data, a color space converter and video processor carrying out a variety of processes to display the input data. The processor not only interfaces DTV videos of various sizes and frame rates, but also interfaces the NTSC or VGA signals, allowing the display of the DTV, NTSC or VGA video in the forms of PIP, multi-PIP, zoom.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1998Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Dongil Han
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Patent number: 6414722Abstract: The compressed data of an auxiliary stream of data, defining an auxiliary image, is decoded on the fly during the display of each main image into which this auxiliary image is to be inset. The data is decoded to deliver luminance and chrominance values intended to be mixed with the luminance and chrominance values of the counterpart pixels of the main image being displayed, in succession during each decoding of the auxiliary image and for the successive pixels of this auxiliary image.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1999Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.Inventor: Richard Bramley
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Patent number: 6384868Abstract: When a sub-image (A) and a sub-image (B) are displayed as semi-moving pictures on a multi-screen, the fields of the input sub-images (A) and (B) are determined. By setting the field determination result as one condition for a write to the memory 114, the sub-images (A) and (B) can be stably written to the memory 114 in either odd fields (ODD) or even fields (EVEN), and can be read and displayed on the screen without flickering characters due to line flicker. Furthermore, when video signals are switched for a channel switch or an input switch, the operation remote controller 501 can issue a switch instruction so that a write to the video memory 509 is stopped according to the generated switch signal, and the image is displayed as a still image. In response to a new input video signal, the number of write increase lines or picture elements for a write to the video memory 509 is set to n. The writing operation is performed m times (m is a natural number) for every other field.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1998Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Tadashi Oguma
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Publication number: 20020047928Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit (2) for generating a composite output picture signal (6) such as a picture signal comprising a PIP (Picture-in-Picture) signal or a DW (Double window) signal on the basis of at least two input picture signals (4.1, 4.2), the circuit comprising a color decoding unit (8) for decoding the at least two input picture signals (4.1, 4.2), and a composing unit (10) for generating the composite output picture signal (6) on the basis of the decoded at least two input picture signals. According to the invention, the color decoding unit (8) comprise a combining unit (14) for combining the at least two input picture signals (4.1, 4.2) into one combined picture signal (16), and one color decoder (18) for decoding the combined picture signal (16) to obtain a single decoded picture signal (12), the composing unit (10) being arranged to generate the composite output picture signal (6) on the basis of the single decoded combined picture signal (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventor: Erik De Meersman
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Patent number: 6359657Abstract: A method and arrangement for simultaneously displaying a graphic image (23) (e.g., a control menu of a television receiver or video recorder) and a video image (22). In order to achieve optimal legibility of the menu without fully obscuring the underlying video signal, the graphic image is accommodated within a window (21) and the window is given an adequate color (24) which is additively mixed with the video signal. The mixing factor is preferably controlled in response to the amount of spatial and/or temporal activity of the video signal within the window.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1997Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Joanne H. D. M. Westerink, Magdalena D. Brouwer-Janse, Tedde Van Gelderen, Hok K. Tang, Remko Westrik
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Patent number: 6346971Abstract: A picture synthesizing system includes a main picture decoding section, sub-picture decoding section, color table conversion section, sub-picture data conversion section, and picture synthesizing section. The main picture decoding section decodes main picture data by a first picture compression scheme. The sub-picture decoding section outputs a color table and frame data by decoding sub-picture data by a second picture compression scheme. The color table conversion section converts the color table from the sub-picture decoding section on the basis of a display format in which a synthesized picture is displayed. The sub-picture data conversion section converts the frame data from the sub-picture decoding section.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kohji Numata
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Publication number: 20020012070Abstract: A main picture is displayed in monochrome in a main picture display area by emission of a first phosphor layer formed of a white emission phosphor. A second phosphor layer formed of a phosphor different from the first phosphor layer is provided in a region different from the first phosphor layer. Icons are displayed in the icon display area in a color different from the main picture by emission of the second phosphor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Koichi Furui
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Patent number: 6323913Abstract: The circuit configuration provides for the combined color decoding and decimation of a video signal, particularly for picture-in-picture insertion in television sets. The color subcarrier is determined from a video signal for the purpose of recovering the chrominance signal components. The video signal is multiplicatively combined with orthogonal color subcarrier components and then filtered through low-pass filters. For the luminance signal components, the video signal is filtered by a further low-pass filter. In order to obtain decimated luminance and chrominance signal components, subsampling is carried out after the low-pass filters. Given suitable dimensioning of the low-pass filters matched to the decimation factor, a single low-pass filter in each of the chrominance signal paths is sufficient and, in the luminance signal path, an otherwise necessary notch filter is obviated.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1998Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Stefan Prange
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Publication number: 20010033340Abstract: In an apparatus for composing image data of a main picture and image data of a sub-picture by a chroma key process, an attribute of an image contained in the sub-picture is detected, a partial area of the sub-picture is set as a chroma key mask area in accordance with the attribute detection result, and composing the image data of the main picture and the image data of the sub-picturee by executing the chroma key process for an area other than the chroma key mask area without executing the chroma key process for the chroma key mask area in the sub-pictur.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventor: Hideaki Yui
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Patent number: 6285409Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Maik Brett, Matthias Burkert
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Patent number: 6061098Abstract: The circuit simultaneously filters and decimates a video signal formed with samples for luminance and chrominance. A subcircuit provides the samples in distinct sequences with alternate luminance and chrominance values. A filter stage is provided which contains a first adder which is supplied with one of the sequences via a first register. The other terminal of the adder is supplied with the other sequence. A second register can be directly connected to the adder if luminance samples are processed, and via a third register if chrominance samples are processed. The output signal of the second register is combined with the samples of one of the sequences by means of an adder at the output end. In the case of a higher degree of the filter, a number of filter stages are cascaded (connected in series). Where a higher degree of decimation is required, feedback is provided in each filter stage.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Xiaoning Nie, Soenke Mehrgardt
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Patent number: 6034677Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying programming information by translating the display of a broadcast of a program are provided. Programming information is displayed along with the program broadcast on the screen such that no portion of the broadcast is covered by the programming information. A multiple channel broadcasting system is tuned to a channel to provide a display of a broadcast of a program on a screen. Programming information is displayed that identifies channels in the broadcasting system. When displaying the programming information, the display of the program broadcast is translated to a smaller broadcast window on the screen by superimposing at least one of a series of successively smaller broadcast window outlines over the display of the broadcast on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1997Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Fujio Noguchi, Kazuto Mugura, Takaaki Ota
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Patent number: 6025884Abstract: A video display monitor apparatus has a composite input circuit, which receives either a composite TV signal or an additional composite television signal supplied from a video player such as a video cassette recorder, separates horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals, Y and C video signals from the received composite television signal, and transforms the separated Y and C video signals into analog R, G and B video signals. Two video processing circuits and a timing control circuit are provided for the display monitor apparatus. The timing control circuit performs timing control for the video processing circuits, in response to the synchronizing signals and additional horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals applied from a personal computer. The viewing area of the image formed by video signals from the computer is disposed within the viewing area of the image formed by the TV video signals in the form of picture-in-picture.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chun-Geun Choi
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Patent number: 5999226Abstract: An apparatus for composing two screens in a television which is capable of solving the problems of a jitter and a screen being cut off at the top and bottom portions caused by a non reference signal in composing two screens, includes a line memory for storing in the unit of lines a video signal for a main screen converted into a digital signal, a frame memory for storing in the unit of frames a video signal for a sub-screen converted into a digital signal, a mixing unit for receiving and mixing the outputs from the line memory and the frame memory to compose two screens, a D/A converter for converting an output from the mixing unit into an analog signal, an encoder for encoding an output from the D/A converter and outputting a double screen signal, a clock signal generator for receiving the horizontal synchronous signals for a main screen and a sub-screen, generating a clock signal corresponding thereto, dividing a horizontal fly back signal in a predetermined number in accordance with a division control signType: GrantFiled: December 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Sang Um Choi
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Patent number: 5995161Abstract: An improved architecture for a digital video processor that processes subvideo data to be superimposed on a main video image during a display image scanning process. The improved digital video processor divides and partitions the execution of subvideo data between a programable CPU and a dedicated hardware processor. The CPU is used to process the simpler, less time critical, nonpixel data, and the more complex, more time critical pixel data is processed in real time using a dedicated hardware processor operating under the control of the CPU. The improved digital video processor is adaptable to process subvideo data being supplied in different data formats.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1997Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Shirish C. Gadre, Cem I. Duruoz, Taner Ozcelik
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Patent number: 5978046Abstract: In a television receiver having a function of picture-in-picture, a character caption on a sub-screen is displayed at an easy-to-see position to enable the content of the sub-screen to be easily understood while looking at the main screen, wherein when either one or multiple sub-screens are displayed in the main screen, the character caption corresponding to the displayed sub-screen is displayed at a proper position to the main screen or on a position displaced from the main screen, it may also be displayed with a character having a shade or displayed with a blanched character or the like, thereby even while watching the main screen, the content of the sub-screen projected may easily be understand through the character caption.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Peter Shintani