Color Television Patents (Class 348/566)
  • Patent number: 11482195
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsui, Norikazu Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 11016788
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dayong Wang, Guanghai Zhuang, Jianye Hei
  • Patent number: 10388290
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Shirahama
  • Patent number: 10136188
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC
    Inventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, Jay Paul Langa, Anant Pralhad Patil
  • Patent number: 9792916
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Shirahama
  • Patent number: 9596428
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventor: Markus Wayne Jackson
  • Publication number: 20150109533
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8866970
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Phonitive
    Inventor: Guillaume Lemoine
  • Patent number: 8839293
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Personalized Media Communications, LLC
    Inventors: John Christopher Harvey, James William Cuddihy
  • Patent number: 8823881
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Chun Chang
  • Patent number: 8760584
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: MSTAR Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Jen Yang
  • Patent number: 8754987
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chang Hsu, Wen-Kang Wei, Yung-Hung Ho, Chien-Yu Hsiung
  • Patent number: 8730319
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekine, Takashi Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20140111691
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventors: Daekyeung Kim, Wooseung Yang, Young II Kim, Jeoong Sung Park, Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 8654253
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Sung Huang, Ting-Hsun Wei, Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 8265461
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Ching Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20120008048
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekine, Takashi Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20110157473
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Hoon Choi, Daekyeung Kim, Wooseung Yang, Young Il Kim, Jeoong Sung Park
  • Patent number: 7715690
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Nomura, Tatsuo Eguchi, Yasuhiko Terashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamaguchi, Kumiko Sasaki, Makoto Niijima, Ai Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7545937
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventor: Mark Francis Rumreich
  • Patent number: 7526186
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Mediatek Incorporation
    Inventor: Yu-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7522218
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Su Jung Lyu
  • Patent number: 7512962
    Abstract: 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 synchronizati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Gotoh, Yoshiki Kuno, Hiroyuki Iitsuka, Masazumi Yamada, Ryogo Yanagisawa, Hirotoshi Uehara, Toshiaki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 7414672
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hag Ryang Gim
  • Patent number: 7224403
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Inventor: Raymond E. Bowden
  • Patent number: 7206029
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Eric Cohen-Solal
  • Patent number: 6924846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ohba, Masayuki Chatani
  • Patent number: 6822699
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Furui
  • Patent number: 6788308
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: TVGateway,LLC
    Inventors: Maire Reavy, Randell Jesup
  • Publication number: 20040127201
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Tomohiro Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 6678006
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robertson Velez, David Yeh, Philip L. Swan, David Glen
  • Patent number: 6642934
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Hrusecky, Bryan J. Lloyd
  • Patent number: 6542162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Hrusecky, Bryan J. Lloyd
  • Publication number: 20020149698
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventor: Raymond E. Bowden
  • Patent number: 6421094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Dongil Han
  • Patent number: 6414722
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Richard Bramley
  • Patent number: 6384868
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Tadashi Oguma
  • Publication number: 20020047928
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Erik De Meersman
  • Patent number: 6359657
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Joanne H. D. M. Westerink, Magdalena D. Brouwer-Janse, Tedde Van Gelderen, Hok K. Tang, Remko Westrik
  • Patent number: 6346971
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kohji Numata
  • Publication number: 20020012070
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Furui
  • Patent number: 6323913
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Stefan Prange
  • Publication number: 20010033340
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventor: Hideaki Yui
  • Patent number: 6285409
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Maik Brett, Matthias Burkert
  • Patent number: 6061098
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Xiaoning Nie, Soenke Mehrgardt
  • Patent number: 6034677
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Fujio Noguchi, Kazuto Mugura, Takaaki Ota
  • Patent number: 6025884
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Geun Choi
  • Patent number: 5999226
    Abstract: 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 sign
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sang Um Choi
  • Patent number: 5995161
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish C. Gadre, Cem I. Duruoz, Taner Ozcelik
  • Patent number: 5978046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Shintani