Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a communicator configured to communicate with a server, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the communicator to transmit graphic data to be displayed on the display to the server, control the communicator to receive from the server video data into which the graphic data is converted, and process and display the received video data on the display.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for relocating an overlay overlapping information in content. The systems and methods may comprise receiving a content item, the content item comprising a video image, and determining a first screen position of an information box (e.g., a score box) in the video image. Determining may be performed with image analysis and/or a machine learning model. The system receives an overlay image (e.g., a channel logo) with a second screen position and determines if the second screen position (e.g., for the logo) overlaps the first screen position (e.g., for the score). In response to determining the second screen position (e.g., of the logo) overlaps the first screen position (e.g., the score), the system modifies the second screen position (e.g., for the logo). Then the system generates for display the overlay image on the video in the modified screen position. The system may not relocate the overlay if the overlay is a high priority.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided for determining a path of a mobile device in a public transportation building. In a method, a plurality of position data items are collected. Each position data item represents a respective position parameter captured by a mobile device that is indicative of a coarse position of the mobile device when the respective position parameter was captured by the mobile device. The method also includes determining, at least partially based on the position data items and public transportation data, an arrival area and/or a departure area of the public transportation building as start and end, respectively, of the path. The method further includes determining, at least partially based on building map data, a plurality of potential paths of the mobile device in the public transportation building starting at the arrival area and/or ending at the departure area.

Abstract: A method of providing a video program with overlay content. The method includes receiving a video program and transcoding the received video program into a plurality of segments, by the processor, each segment representing a different period of the video program. In response to receiving an instruction to add overlay content to the video program, a subset of the segments of the video program to which the overlay content is to be added is selected. Overlay content is added to the selected segments and the segments of the video program to which overlay content was added, together with the segments of the video program that were not selected are transmitted to a receiver.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multimedia device for processing a video signal and control method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the multimedia device includes a controller configured to perform tone mapping, a dynamic contrast function, and a local contrast function. The controller performs the tone mapping not only on an HDR video signal but also on an SDR video signal. When performing the tone mapping on the SDR video signal, the controller amplifies only an intermediate-gradient region without adjusting low-gradient and high-gradient regions. When performing the dynamic contrast function, the controller only an intermediate-gradient region of the video signal without adjusting low-gradient and high-gradient regions. When performing the local contrast function, the controller divides the video signal into blocks, calculates an APL value of each block, and then applies a linear curve based on the APL value.

Abstract: There is provided an information input and output apparatus including a screen control unit that generates a screen which includes at least one region to input or output information, as a window, a display attribute storage unit that stores a display and a non-display of each of the windows on the screen, and a position and a size of each of the windows when the windows are displayed on the screen, as a display attribute for each window, a display unit that displays the screen generated by the screen control unit, and a contact position detecting unit that is disposed along a display surface of the display unit, and outputs a coordinate for each contact position to the screen control unit when contacts are simultaneously detected at a plurality of positions.

Abstract: A method for video insertion using backpropagation may include determining a first camera model from a first frame of the sequence. The method may also include determining a transition location. The method may further include generating a transform model based on an analysis of the first frame and a second frame that occurs earlier in the video sequence and applying the transform model to the first camera model to generate a second camera model for the second frame. The method then includes inserting an insertion into one or more frames earlier in the sequence between the second frame and the transition location based on the second camera model, wherein the inserting is performed before displaying the frames. A system for video insertion using backpropagation includes search, transition, track and insertion subsystems.

Abstract: The invention allows detecting which graphics, if any, have been added to the video signal at any given time by utilizing only the various signals provided by prior art hardware. A first video signal, graphics signal(s), and a second video signal are received. It is then determined which graphics, if any, are present in a given frame of the received second video signal based on comparing actual values of pixels of the received second video signal and calculated values of pixels derived from the first video signal, and the graphics signal(s), and the combination of graphics signal(s) which produces the best match is searched for.

Abstract: A storage medium disposed in a television is provided. A code of a television software system is stored in the storage medium. The television software system includes a first application, a second application and an application management module. The first application has a first function library. The second application has a second function library different from the first function library. The application management module manages the first application and the second application according to the first function library and the second function library, respectively.

Abstract: The invention allows detecting which graphics, if any, have been added to the video signal at any given time by utilizing only the various signals provided by prior art hardware. A first video signal, graphics signal(s), and a second video signal are received. It is then determined which graphics, if any, are present in a given frame of the received second video signal based on comparing actual values of pixels of the received second video signal and calculated values of pixels derived from the first video signal, and the graphics signal(s), and the combination of graphics signal(s) which produces the best match is searched for.

Abstract: A method includes storing data related to a video frame or an image separately from data related to a subtitle of the video frame or the image in a memory of a data processing device, and comparing, through a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, a color parameter of the data related to the video frame or the image to a color parameter of the data related to the subtitle. The method also includes dynamically adjusting a color parameter of at least a portion of the data related to the subtitle and/or a color parameter of at least a portion of the data related to the video frame or the image based on the comparison. Further, the method includes overlaying the data related to the subtitle on the data related to the video frame or the image following the dynamic adjustment prior to rendering thereof on a display unit.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display which displays an image; an external peripheral device; a peripheral device interface connected to the external peripheral device; an image composing module which combines a video signal with a graphic signal and outputs a combined signal to the display; and a controller which outputs a graphic signal to the image composing module when the graphic signal is input from the external peripheral device through the peripheral device interface, the graphic signal being associated with contents of a video signal displayed on the display and displayed along with the video signal.

Abstract: A system and method for delaying a first version of a video feed from a video camera according to a first delay to generate a second version of the feed, supplying the first version to an insertion system, wherein the insertion system inserts an indicia into the first version to create an enhanced version with a second delay substantially matching the first delay and supplying the enhanced version and the second version to a production switcher, wherein the enhanced version and the second version supplied to the production switcher are synchronized with one another.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes an adjunct content presentation system including adjunct content within a first image of a media content instance and a second image of the media content instance by setting a pixel value of a first group of pixels included in the first image and a pixel value of a second group of pixels included in the second image and corresponding to the first group of pixels to each be greater than a predetermined neutral pixel value, including the adjunct content within a compensating image by setting a pixel value of a third group of pixels included in the compensating image and corresponding to the first and second groups of pixels to be less than the predetermined neutral pixel value, and presenting the first image, the second image, and the compensating image. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.

Abstract: In one embodiment, graphics from a general-purpose computer are mixed with video images from a video source. A first interface receives the graphics, the graphics including a plurality of graphics frames, at least some graphics frames including one or more regions having pixels set to one or more predetermined color values. A second interface receives video images from the video source, each video image corresponding to one of the plurality of graphics frames. A video mixer includes logic configured to recognize pixels in the at least some graphics frames that are set to the one or more predetermined color values, and in the one or more regions where the pixels are set to the one or more predetermined color values to mix pixels from the corresponding video image with the graphics frame, to create a plurality of mixed images. One or more output interfaces outputs the mixed images.

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.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling a user interface for presenting a media reaction. The techniques receive media reactions of a person to a media program, such as the person laughing at one point of a comedy show, then smiling at another point, and then departing at a third point. The techniques may present these and other media reactions in a user interface through which a user may interact.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to an integrated mobile desktop. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display chip to receive graphical data and produce video display signals; and a logic chip to receive data from a mobile device and the video display signals from the display chip to generate a display including at least a portion for a representation of a display of the mobile device. The logic chip provides for integration of operations for the apparatus and the mobile device using the generated display.

Abstract: Video information intended to be reproduced on a television screen (1) often includes additional information such as graphics information (3) or subtitles (4) in addition to the main information such as film images (2). This additional information is transmitted separately, so that the user may choose whether the additional information is to be displayed or not. In the disclosed method the transmitted video signal comprises information relating to the duration (25) for which the additional information is to remain on the display. With this method the additional information can be displayed exactly for the duration of the desired time. When a video disc or tape is used for transferring video information, this is advantageous in trick modes, such as Fast Forward.

Abstract: A multimedia device provided with an operating system (OS) capable of processing a plurality of graphic data comprises a first client receiving first graphic data of a managed application; a native module pre-processing an application drafted in a native code; a second client receiving second graphic data of the application pre-processed by the native module; a composite module compositing the first graphic data output from the first client and the second graphic data output from the second client; and a display module outputting the composited first and second graphic data, wherein the composite module is accessed to the first client and the second client.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an allocating unit that divides image information into components corresponding to the number of a plurality of apparatuses and allocates the components to the plurality of apparatuses; a information acquiring unit that acquires information of the allocated components from image information being reproduced by the plurality of apparatuses; and an image generating unit that combines the information of the components acquired from the plurality of apparatuses by the information acquiring unit and generates an image.

Abstract: A graphics pipeline may be partially or completely shut down based, at least in part, on the presence of non-transparent objects in a graphics layer. Any regions of the graphics layer that include one or more non-transparent objects (e.g., semi-transparent, opaque, etc.) may be determined. A video layer and the determined regions of the graphics layer may be sampled. The sampled video layer and the sampled determined regions of the graphics layer may be composited for display. In some instances, it may be determined that the graphics layer includes no non-transparent objects. Upon that determination, the graphics pipeline may be fully shut down and the video layer may be sampled and composited, without sampling and/or compositing the graphics layer.

Abstract: A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.

Abstract: A method of processing on screen display data with an image post processor includes receiving a data stream from a video processor at a post processing device having at least one port, the data stream including on screen display data overlaid on a white background and the on screen display data overlaid on a black background, finding a difference between the on screen display data overlaid on white and the on screen display data overlaid on black, using the difference to determine a complement of an alpha blend value, performing image processing on the image data with the post processor by applying the complement of an alpha blend value to the image data to produce processed image data, and transmitting the processed image data and the on screen display data through a display port.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating an image with a communication characteristic are disclosed. According to one method, a content characteristic of a first image is identified. A communication characteristic of a communication associated with the first image is identified. The content characteristic is associated with the communication characteristic. The content characteristic of the first image is identified in a second image. The communication characteristic is associated with the second image based on the association between the content characteristic and the communication characteristic.

Abstract: A caption presentation method and an apparatus using the method, by which caption and information related to the caption can be provided together in a broadcast receiver or in an image reproducer that displays the caption in a closed caption method. The method includes detecting subject information from a caption signal; obtaining visual information with respect to the caption, based on the detected caption subject information; and displaying the visual information and the caption signal together.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for image processing to generate, from a source image having a predefined width to height ratio, called initial ratio, and an information banner having predefined width to height ratio, called banner ratio, a final image having a width called final and a height called final and for which the width to height ratio, called final ratio, is different from the initial ratio, comprising the following steps: determine a ratio called useful according to the final ratio and the banner ratio, extract from the source image a part of the image having a width to height ratio equal to the useful ratio, and generate, from the part of the image extracted and the information banner, a final image comprising in juxtaposition an image representative of the extracted image part having a width to height ratio equal to the useful ratio and an image representative of the information banner having a width to height ratio equal to the banner ratio.

Abstract: An image display apparatus including an image receiving unit that receives an image signal on which additional display information is superimposed, an image display unit that displays the image signal on which the additional display information is superimposed in a screen, and an information display unit that displays predetermined display information at a display position of the additional display information so that the additional display information displayed in the screen is hidden.

Abstract: A multimedia device provided with an operating system (OS) capable of processing a plurality of graphic data comprises a first client receiving first graphic data of a managed application; a native module pre-processing an application drafted in a native code; a second client receiving second graphic data of the application pre-processed by the native module; a composite module compositing the first graphic data output from the first client and the second graphic data output from the second client; and a display module outputting the composited first and second graphic data, wherein the composite module is accessed to the first client and the second client.

Abstract: A video signal processing device that includes first and second input terminals and a size changer configured to change an image size of an image to be displayed based on a video signal input from the second input terminal. A mixer is configured to mix a video signal input from the first input terminal with a video signal that has passed through the size changer, and an output terminal is configured to output a video signal arising from mixing by the mixer.

Abstract: A system and method of geometrical predistortion of a graphical source signal is provided in which the graphical source signal is merged with an input video signal for display on a display device. The input video signal is received at a hardware scaler device and a predistorted video signal is generated there from. A warping map is calculated using a programmed processor and a graphics source signal is then predistorted, in software, using the warping map to generate a warped graphical overlay signal. The predistorted video signal from the hardware scaler is then merged with the warped graphical overlay signal from the programmed processor.

Abstract: A method for setting caption window attributes and an associated television system are concerned. The method includes steps of providing a plurality of attributive bit sets corresponding to a plurality of pixels in a caption; utilizing a window condition to compare the plurality of attributive bit sets in response to a setting caption window attribute command for changing window color to a destination color-change value, so as to selectively update partial bits of the attributive bit sets in response to the window condition; and displaying colors of the pixels according to the attributive bit sets and a palette, thereby changing the color of the caption window.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device that converts an interlace image signal into a progressive signal so as not to cause degradation of image quality in edge parts of letters or the like, when performing an IP conversion with respect to an image that is mixed with an OSD such as a caption and a telop. The image processing device includes: an OSD mix part that mixes an on-screen display with an input interlace image signal; a motion detecting part that detects a motion by comparing pixel data between different fields; and an interpolation pixel generating part that generates a new pixel between lines of the interlace image signal by interpolating calculation with an interpolation method that depends on an OSD mix ratio of the OSD mix part and a result of the motion detection by the motion detecting part.

Abstract: Various embodiments of separating a picture part of interest from an arbitrary background are described. The background may be a moving or still frame. The picture part of interest and background frames may be in or out of focus. One separation approach employs the difference between luminance and chrominance values of the input and background frames where changes in luminance from frame to frame are compensated for. In another approach, picture part of interest separation is based on spatial resolution differences between the background and the picture part of interest frames. Parameter matching can also be performed for the picture part of interest and the basic picture into which the picture part of interest is embedded. Further, a separated picture part of interest can be embedded into a basic picture containing text.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, an orthographic projection map is very effective at presenting global relationships among the features of the map but not effective at presenting local detail. In contrast, street -side images show excellent detail but do not convey the global information of an orthographic projection map. The hybrid map can thus provide a richer set of information than conventional maps and can also display objects/features of the hybrid map in multiple perspectives simultaneously on a single representation that is printable.

Abstract: There is provided a video output apparatus which inputs a video content that can have at least three different resolutions. A format detector detects an alteration of a resolution of a video content. A scaling processor scales up the video content at a set scale ratio. Upon detection of an alteration of the resolution, the format detector selects one of a plurality of supplemental video pictures, which are prepared in advance in a memory, in accordance with the degree of decrease of the resolution after the alteration to that before the alteration. An image composition unit controls a display unit to display the supplemental video picture together with a video associated with the video content via a video display unit.

Abstract: A broadcasting receiver, broadcasting transmitter, broadcasting system and a control method are provided. The broadcasting receiver includes a broadcasting reception unit which receives caption data including information on an edge shape of a caption window and caption text to be displayed in the caption window, and a caption processor which processes the received caption data, determines the edge shape of the caption window corresponding to the caption data, and generates the caption window and the caption text according to the edge shape and the caption text. Accordingly, the edge shapes of the caption windows in which the caption text is displayed can be expressed in various forms.

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.

Abstract: A caption presentation method and an apparatus using the method, by which caption and information related to the caption can be provided together in a broadcast receiver or in an image reproducer that displays the caption in a closed caption method. The method includes detecting subject information from a caption signal; obtaining visual information with respect to the caption, based on the detected caption subject information; and displaying the visual information and the caption signal together.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus includes a graphics processing unit that outputs graphics data, which forms a first screen image, in sync with a vertical sync signal and a pixel clock signal, a video decoder that outputs video data, which forms a second screen image, in sync with the vertical sync signal and the pixel clock signal, a blending process unit that executes a blending process for blending the graphics data, which is output from the graphics processing unit, and the video data, which is output from the video decoder, and a picture data output unit that outputs picture data, which is obtained by the blending process, to a display apparatus.

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.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver and method for displaying channel information, are discussed. According to an embodiment, a method for displaying channel information using a broadcast receiver, includes tuning, by the broadcast receiver, to at least one channel if a channel edition mode is provided, and processing video signals of the tuned channel in a multi-PIP mode, the processing step including changing at least one of a video resolution and a screen size for the video signals; graphically processing channel data information on each of the video signals; and multiplexing the video signals processed in the multi-PIP mode and the graphically processed channel data information into multiplexed signals, for outputting the multiplexed signals on a display device.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, an orthographic projection map is very effective at presenting global relationships among the features of the map, but not effective at presenting local detail. In contrast, street-side images show excellent detail, but do not convey the global information of an orthographic projection map. The hybrid map can thus provide a richer set of information than conventional maps, and can also display objects/features of the hybrid map in multiple perspectives simultaneously on a single representation that is printable.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a receiver, a display device, and a transmission module. The receiver includes a video receiver, a video processor, a graphics processor, and a multiprocessor. The video processor converts the video signal received by the video receiver to a moving image with a first resolution. The graphics processor outputs a still image with a second resolution higher than the first resolution according to an instruction. The multiprocessor divides the still image into divisional still images with the first resolution. The display device includes a display module, a scaling processor, a restoration processor, and a blend processor. The scaling processor scales the moving image with the first resolution. The restoration processor restores the divisional still images to the original still image. The blend processor displays the moving image and the still image with the second resolution on the display module.

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.

Abstract: Closed captioning information is provided regarding the location of a speaker, and when the text is spoken. An audio/video signal includes a video data and the closed captioning information. The closed captioning information includes a time index, a closed captioning text, and positioning information. The positioning information indicates a position within a frame of the video data, and is associated with the closed captioning text for a given time index. The position corresponds to the speaker who is speaking the associated closed captioning text. A decoder device decodes the closed captioning information to determine the position of the speaker within the video data, and the time index to correlate the closed captioning text and positioning information to a specific frame of video data. The video data is preferably scaled to provide a less than full screen video.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes: a line-based data encoder for performing line-based data encoding on an input signal to generate a line-based data encoded signal; and a video signal controller coupled to the line-based data encoder for receiving a first video signal and the line-based data encoded signal, decoding the line-based data encoded signal to generate a second video signal, and choosing one of the first and second video signals to generate an output signal.

Abstract: A system for video detection and enhancement of a sport object during a sport contest. The system includes the sport object configured to phosphoresce at a selected non-visible frequency; a video collection and separation apparatus configured to detect visible light from a scene that includes the sport object and to detect phosphorescence radiation emitted by the sport object at the selected non-visible frequency, configured to separate the detected visible light from the detected phosphorescence radiation, and configured to create a visible light signal from the detected visible light and to create a phosphorescent signal from the detected phosphorescence radiation; an enhancement module configured to receive and to enhance the phosphorescent signal, and a merge module configured to receive and to recombine a resulting enhanced-phosphorescent signal and the visible light signal into a recombined signal.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver and a method for displaying channel information are disclosed, in which video signals of each channel are displayed in a multi-PIP mode when a channel list is displayed, so that a user can identify the channel list through video. Therefore, since broadcasting channel program information is displayed in real time in the multi-PIP mode of a video type, the user can share the broadcasting information with a broadcasting station in real time. Also, since the user can readily identify information on various broadcasting channels on a channel edition screen, it is possible to facilitate channel edition.