Accessing Circuitry Patents (Class 348/718)
  • Patent number: 11822605
    Abstract: A system (1000) for automated question answering, including: semantic space (210) generated from a corpus of questions and answers; a user interface (1030) configured to receive a question; and a processor (1100) comprising: (i) a question decomposition engine (1050) configured to decompose the question into a domain, a keyword, and a focus word; (ii) a question similarity generator (1060) configured to identify one or more questions in a semantic space using the decomposed question; (iii) an answer extraction and ranking engine (1080) configured to: extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions; and identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and (iv) an answer tuning engine (1090) configured to fine-tune the identified best answer using one or more of the domain, keyword, and focus word; wherein the fine-tuned answer is provided to the user via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vivek Varma Datla, Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Junyi Liu, Kathy Mi Young Lee, Ashequl Qadir, Adi Prakash
  • Patent number: 11656673
    Abstract: A memory device includes a hardware suspend mechanism configured to place a component of a memory controller into a lower power mode while a memory operation is being completed. A timer is provided to wakeup the CPU out of the lower power mode; and hardware interrupts can be used in determining to either enter or wake from the lower power mode. Memory monitoring circuitry is provided to estimate the duration of memory operations; and timers are provided to wake the component in the absence of hardware interrupts or additional commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Liang, Jonathan Scott Parry, David Aaron Palmer, Stephen Hanna
  • Patent number: 11595675
    Abstract: The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Valeri George, Anastasia Henkel, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11520554
    Abstract: A system and method for providing image display, and more specifically, a system for providing a digital image for decorating a living or work space is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Kyle Britton
  • Patent number: 11494883
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may render an image to be output by a display which sequentially outputs pixel rows of the image at a row-to-row velocity. The system may predict, based on eye-tracking data, an eye-motion velocity within a timeframe for displaying the image. The system may determine a predicted retina projection displacement for each pixel row based on the row-to-row velocity and eye-motion velocity. The system may determine a first correction displacement for each pixel row based on the predicted retina projection displacement. The system may determine a cumulative correction displacement based on the first correction displacement. The system may determine, for each pixel row, a second correction displacement based on the first correction displacement of that pixel row and the cumulative correction displacement. The system may warp each pixel row using the associated second correction displacement and output the warped pixel rows using the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Murdison, Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 11343538
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A transformation matrix is derived using a submatrix configuring a part of the transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Patent number: 10743002
    Abstract: Image signal processing may include obtaining a first portion of a first input image, the first portion having a defined width, a defined height, and a defined portion size, which is a product of multiplying the defined width by the defined height, the first portion of the first input image including a first set of image elements in raster order and having a cardinality of the defined portion size. Image signal processing may include sequential in-place blocking transposition of the first input image, which may include using a buffer, omit using another buffer, and has linear complexity, and may include buffering the first set of image elements using the buffer, the buffer having a defined buffer size within twice the defined portion size, and outputting the first set of image elements from the buffer in block order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno César Douady-Pleven, Vincent Vacquerie
  • Patent number: 10614747
    Abstract: A display driver includes: a receiver configured to receive image data of each line of a display panel from an external device; a line latch circuit having a line latch configured to latch the image data of each line received by the receiver in response to a strobe signal; a driving circuit section which drives the display panel in response to the image data latched by the line latch; and a timing controller configured to generate the strobe signal. The receiver is configured to detect occurrence of transmission error in data transmission about each line. The timing controller is configured to generate the strobe signal in response to a detection result of the occurrence of transmission error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kenji Yamazumi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Prashant Shamarao, Kota Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10491241
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an input interface and compression circuitry. The input interface is configured to receive input source data. The compression circuitry in configured to set a symbol anchor value, having a highest occurrence probability among the symbol values in the input source data, to generate a bit-map by (i) for every symbol in the input source data whose symbol value is the anchor value, setting a respective bit in the bit-map to a first binary value, and (ii) for every symbol in the source data whose symbol value differs from the anchor value, setting the respective bit in the bit-map to a second binary value, and to generate compressed data including (i) the bit-map and (ii) the symbols whose symbol values differ from the symbol anchor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Habana Labs Ltd.
    Inventor: Shlomo Raikin
  • Patent number: 10104377
    Abstract: Described are techniques in video coding and/or decoding that allow for selectively breaking prediction and/or in loop filtering across segment boundaries between different segments of a video picture. A high layer syntax element, such as a parameter set or a slice header, may contain one or more indications signalling to an encoder and/or decoder whether an associated prediction or loop filtering tool may be applied across the segment boundary. In response to such one or more indications, the encoder and/or decoder may then control the prediction or loop filtering tool accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Horowitz
  • Patent number: 9848212
    Abstract: A video server comprises memory to store video content obtained from multiple camera views; one or more streaming components configured to stream video content to a client application; and one or more frame feeder components. A frame feeder component is configured to access first video content corresponding to a first camera view and provide the first video content to a streaming component; access, in response to a request received at the video server to stream second video content corresponding to a second camera view, intermediate video content corresponding to one or more camera views intermediate to the first and second camera views; and access the second video content, and provide the intermediate video content and the second intermediate video to the streaming component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Qing Zhang, Hongbing Li, Miao Zhao, Hong Heather Yu
  • Patent number: 9304899
    Abstract: An integrated circuit that includes network interface circuitry is provided. The network interface circuitry may include memory for buffering incoming data and associated control circuitry for loading the incoming data into and retrieving data from memory. The memory may be organized into multiple individually addressable memory blocks. The control circuitry may include read and write barrel shifters, a controller for providing read and write address signals, write address circuitry for controlling the write barrel shifter and for generating write address bits, and read address circuitry for controlling the read barrel shifter and for generating read address bits. The read and write circuitry may each include division and modulus arithmetic circuits for processing the address signals received from the controller and may include control logic for generating the read and write address bits that are used to address each of the multiple memory blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Gregg William Baeckler
  • Patent number: 9001275
    Abstract: HDMI is a digital audio and video communications protocol commonly used in consumer electronics. HDMI is particularly synonymous with high fidelity audio and video. Even though HDMI is a digital communications protocol, the audio quality can be impaired by analog signal impairments and distortions even if there are no digital decoding errors. In particular, the very process by which the audio is converted from Digital (HDMI) to human audible “Analog Audio” can be prone to errors. This occurs when the Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) clock, which is derived from the HDMI TMDS clock or HDMI source, is “distorted” due to its jitter, resulting in erroneous sampling or outputting of vital audio samples, thereby reducing the audio quality of the experience. The present invention reduces the jitter on the TMDS clock, and hence the audio DAC clock, resulting in lower audio distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Joo Kim, David Anthony Stelliga
  • Patent number: 8922721
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided The display apparatus includes: an image processor configured to process an image of content; a display configured to display the processed image of the content; a camera configured to capture an image of a remote controller; a storage configured to store information regarding a plurality of appearance states of the remote controller corresponding to user commands; and a controller configured to determine an appearance state from among the plurality of appearance states of the remote controller based on the image of remote controller captured by the camera, and control the display section to display the image of the content according to a user command corresponding to the determined appearance state of the remote controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-sung Jung, Nam-hyun Park, Hae-sung Park, Ri-na Shin, Hyung-ho Hwangbo
  • Patent number: 8878892
    Abstract: A multi-picture synthesizing method in a conference television system is disclosed by the present invention. The method includes: synthesizing multiple pictures into a bottom layer of a multi-picture image according to a preset multi-picture layout, creating at least one layer of image layer over a bottom layer of a multi-picture image, creating at least one image frame in each image layer, and adjusting a pre-output picture corresponding to the image frame according to output characteristics of each image frame, and outputting the pre-output picture into the corresponding image frame. The present invention further discloses a multi-picture synthesizing apparatus in a conference television system. According to the technical scheme of the present invention, the multi-picture synthesizing of a conference television system is implemented flexibly and simply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Junli Liu, Jun Chen, Hui Guan
  • Patent number: 8842223
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitter apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a transmitter system capable of easily transmitting a wideband signal. The transmitter apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that obtains first transmission control information; a second acquisition unit that obtains second transmission control information similar to information input to another transmitter apparatus; and a generating unit that processes transmission target data based on a parameter contained in the first transmission control information and generates data including the processed transmission target data and the second transmission control information. The present technology can be applied to a transmitter apparatus that transmits a DVB-C2 signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi, Takahiro Okada
  • 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: 8743211
    Abstract: A video test pattern generator and method include a control sequencer configured to control one or more address counters to generate a video test pattern. A first memory is configured to store pixel values for transitions between portions of the video test pattern and configured to store a repeated pixel value. A second memory is configured to store pattern information to determine placement of the pixel values for the transitions and the repeated pixel values. A repeat counter is configured to control a number of the repeated pixel values produced before a next transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: GVBB Holdings S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Todd Martin Beazley
  • Patent number: 8726309
    Abstract: Various embodiments of apparatus and/or methods are described for skipping, filtering and/or replacing content from an audio/video stream using text data associated with the audio/video stream. The text data is processed using location information that references a segment of the text data of the first audio/video stream to identify a location within the first audio/video stream. The location within the first audio/video stream is utilized to identify portions of the audio/video stream that are to be skipped during presentation. The portions of the audio/video stream that are to be skipped are filtered from the audio/video stream, and some of the skipped portions of the audio/video stream are replaced with substitute content. The filtered video stream, including the substitute content, is outputted for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven M. Casagrande, David A. Kummer
  • Patent number: 8692938
    Abstract: There is provided a video processing device capable of reducing the influence of a disturbance of an input vertical synchronization signal. When the synchronization signal detecting unit detects an input of the input-side vertical synchronization signal at a predetermined cycle, the synchronization signal control unit outputs the input-side vertical synchronization signal, which has been input, as an output-side vertical synchronization signal, and, when the synchronization signal detecting unit detects an input of a next input-side vertical synchronization signal before the predetermined cycle elapses after the output of the output-side vertical synchronization signal, a next input-side vertical synchronization signal input before the predetermined cycle elapses is not output as a next output-side vertical synchronization signal, and an input-side vertical synchronization signal input further next is output as the next output-side vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8606085
    Abstract: A method for replacing audio data within a recorded audio/video stream is presented. In the method, a first audio/video stream including audio data, video data, and supplemental data is stored. Location information is received which references the supplemental data to identify a location within the first audio/video stream. The location information is received in a data file separately from the first audio/video stream. Also received is an audio data segment. At least a portion of the audio data of the first audio/video stream is replaced at the identified location with the audio data segment to produce a second audio/video stream. At least a portion of the second audio/video stream is then transferred for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Max S. Gratton
  • Patent number: 8542744
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for scalable block pixel filtering are described. A block filtering instruction is issued to a processing element (PE) to initiate block pixel filtering hardware by causing at least one command and at least one parameter be sent to a command and control function associated with the PE. A block of pixels is fetched from a PE local memory to be stored in a register file of a hardware assist module. A sub-block of pixels is processed to generate sub-block parameters and the block of pixels is filtered in a horizontal/vertical edge filtering computation pipeline using the sub-block parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mihailo M. Stojancic, Gerald George Pechanek
  • Patent number: 8416279
    Abstract: Processing images in conference between a plurality of video conferencing terminal. The method includes providing properties of terminals, defining a number of groups based on the properties of the terminals, then determining an ordered list of the a number of groups, and determining a pane layout for displaying images from the terminals. The pane layout is determined based on the provided properties of the terminal the pane layout is displayed on and the properties of the other terminals in the conference. Then, mapping the ordered list of the number of groups to the respective determined pane layout, and providing at least one composite image stream to each of the terminals according to the selected pane layout and mapping of the a number of groups. Different types of telepresence endpoints, (e.g. different manufacturers, numbers of screens/cameras, etc.) can thus interoperate well in the same video conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Pepperell
  • Patent number: 8395707
    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: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Personalized Media Communications LLC
    Inventors: John Christopher Harvey, James William Cuddihy
  • Patent number: 8345167
    Abstract: A method of storing and accessing pictures in a multi-field video operation includes storing a first portion of a first field in first page of a first bank of a DRAM; storing a first portion of a second field in the first page of the first bank; reading the first page of the first bank; and performing the multi-field video operation according to the first portions of the first field and the second field. Another method includes storing a first field in a first bank of a DRAM; storing a second field in a second bank of the DRAM; reading a first portion of the first field from the first bank of the DRAM and reading a first portion of the second field from the second bank of the DRAM; and performing the multi-field video operation according to the first portions of the first field and the second field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Kun-Bin Lee, Yuan-Chung Lee
  • Patent number: 8265164
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for determining whether a current macroblock and an adjacent macroblock thereof are located in the same slice. The method is used in a predetermined process for a block-based digitally encoded image. The block-based digitally encoded image is represented as an encoded bit-stream and each macroblock therein is assigned a sequence characteristic number. The method includes: providing a memory space for storing and tracing a slice changing point; initializing the slice changing point to a predetermined number; checking the encoded bit-stream, and when the current slice is determined to change, setting the slice changing point to a derived sequence characteristic number derived from the sequence characteristic number of the current macroblock; and determining whether the current macroblock and the adjacent block thereof are in the same slice according to a comparison result between the sequence characteristic number of the adjacent block and the slice changing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Fu, Sean Lee
  • Patent number: 8218091
    Abstract: A scaler positioning module may receive a video signal selected from among a plurality of video signals. The scaler positioning module may include scaler slots for arranging the signal path of the selected video signal through at least one scaler in the scaler positioning module. The scaler slots may enable the scaler positioning module to operate in three modes. The three modes may enable the scaler positioning module to output scaled data without memory operations, scale prior to a memory write, and scale after a memory read. A blank time optimizer (BTO) may receive data from the scaler positioning module at a first clock rate and distributed memory accesses based on a bandwidth requirement determination. The BTO may access memory at a second clock rate. The second clock rate may be slower than the first which may reduce memory bandwidth and enable another video signal to access memory faster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjay Garg, Bipasha Ghosh, Nikhil Balram, Kaip Sridhar, Shilpi Sahu, Richard Taylor, Gwyn Edwards, Loren Tomasi, Vipin Namboodiri
  • Patent number: 8164692
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gamma correction circuit including a serial storage unit which serially stores first and second parameter information in a storage area, a first parallel storage unit which parallelly stores the first parameter information in the storage area, a second parallel storage unit, a gamma correction unit which receives a video signal and which performs gamma correction to the video signal based on the first or second parameter information, and a control unit which serially reads the first or second parameter information, parallelly stores the information in the first or second parallel storage units, parallelly reads the first or second parameter information, supplies the information to the gamma correction unit, and performs gamma correction to the video signal based on the first or second parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shigeki Kamimura
  • Patent number: 8156520
    Abstract: Various embodiments of apparatus and/or methods are described for skipping, filtering and/or replacing content from an audio/video stream using text data associated with the audio/video stream. The text data is processed using location information that references a segment of the text data of the first audio/video stream to identify a location within the first audio/video stream. The location within the first audio/video stream is utilized to identify portions of the audio/video stream that are to be skipped during presentation. The portions of the audio/video stream that are to be skipped are filtered from the audio/video stream, and some of the skipped portions of the audio/video stream are replaced with substitute content. The filtered video stream, including the substitute content, is outputted for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven M. Casagrande, David A. Kummer
  • Patent number: 8130319
    Abstract: A signal processing device with high efficiency of teletext information processing is provided. The signal processing device is configured to receive and encode a transport stream for display, wherein the transport stream provides teletext information associated with a plurality of teletext lines and video information associated with a plurality of video lines. The video signal processing device includes a memory configured to store line enable signals and line data associated with the teletext lines and the video lines, a VBI controller coupled to the memory, configured to read the memory to obtain the line data associated with enabled teletext lines of the teletext lines, and an TV encoder coupled to the VBI controller, configured to receive and encode the line data associated with the enabled teletext lines for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Hsien Chou, Cheng-Yu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8125571
    Abstract: According to the invention, the video data to be processed and the configuration data are transferred to the module via one and the same data bus. These modules are advantageously chained in series on a common bus which transfers to each module both the configuration data and the video data to be processed. Preferably, dead time or “blanking” periods between two picture frames transmitted on this bus are used in order to insert the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Hassane Guermoud, Emmanuel Jolly, Laurent Blondé, Jonathan Kervec
  • Patent number: 7969512
    Abstract: A system for processing video information, the system including a memory configured to store video information, a memory controller coupled to the memory and configured to receive memory requests for the video information, a first video signal processing client coupled to the memory controller. The first video signal processing client including a video signal processor, a buffer coupled to the video signal processor, and a memory request module coupled to the memory controller and to the buffer, the memory request module being configured to submit amortized memory requests to the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Wiercienski, Chris Wiesner, Oswin Hall
  • Patent number: 7944509
    Abstract: There is provided with a video processing method including: writing first video signals representing an input video frame alternately into first and second storage regions every input video frame; reading out the written first video signals from either the first storage region or the second storage region; generating second video signals representing an output video frame including a video image represented by the first video signals read out; acquiring write region information indicating either the first storage region or the second storage region into which writing is being performed, before reading is performed; acquiring write location information indicating a location on the first or second storage region, associated with the first video signal which is being written, before reading is performed; and deciding either the first storage region or the second storage region from which reading should be performed, by using the write region information and the write location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shingo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7918563
    Abstract: A method includes generating a plurality of beams that each illuminate a separate portion of a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a first dimension of a first length and a second dimension of a second length. Each of the beams spans a portion of the first length of the first dimension and a portion of the second length of the second dimension. The method also includes scrolling the plurality of beams along the second dimension of the spatial light modulator while maintaining at least a first gap between each of the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Scott King, Gregory James Hewlett, Roger Mitsuo Ikeda, Jeffrey Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 7911537
    Abstract: Provided is a multichannel video reception apparatus of a mobile communication terminal for digital broadcasting. An RF processor receives a broadcast signal of a digital broadcast service via an antenna. A baseband processor processes the received broadcast signal in a baseband. A controller controls the RF processor and the baseband processor to receive the broadcast signal including video frames of a main channel and a sub-channel. A memory stores a program code, reference data, and updatable user data, for an operation of the controller. A video processor receives the video frames of the main channel and the sub-channel, decodes the latest key frame of the sub-channel if a key frame of the main channel occurs while decoding the video frames of the main channel, and after decoding the key frame of the sub-channel, decodes the frames of the main channel. A display divides the decoded video signal into a main-channel image and a sub-channel image and separately displays the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kwang-Pyo Choi, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Young-O Park
  • Publication number: 20100328539
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of reusing data in memory for motion estimation. Only additional data is required to prepare reference block so as to reduce the data transfer to the memory. The additional data will be arranged with the existing data in the memory to provide the reference block. Then the data in the memory is read in a specific way to retrieve the reference block. Using this invention, the bandwidth requirement and internal memory can be greatly reduced without any additional logic operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Yan HUO, Lu WANG, Ka Man CHENG, Xiao ZHOU
  • Patent number: 7859601
    Abstract: A signal processing system with multiple electronic apparatus. A controller checks and determines whether or not the electronic apparatus are electrically connected and are compliant for performing a cooperative signal processing. For example, when a TV signal processor is not connected to another apparatus, a signal processing circuit performs normal signal processing. When the TV signal processor is connected to another compliant apparatus, the TV signal processor cooperates with the compliant electronic apparatus as if they were a single apparatus and performs optimal processing of an input signal. In an ID table stored in the controller, processing information concerning processing tasks to be shared with the compliant electronic apparatus is associated with the function ID of the compliant electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7809240
    Abstract: When various content is broadcasted via the Internet, a user is free from restriction of time and space and user's desired content is provided. The content is controllably recorded and read to a random-access recording medium via a network, and at least the content read from the recording medium is transmitted to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nomura
  • Patent number: 7800700
    Abstract: A video scaler may include a scaler core and an output memory having a reduced size. An image processing apparatus may include a video scaler with a scaler core and an output memory with a reduced size. The scaler core may scale input image data and store the scaled image data in the output memory. The image processing apparatus may read image data from the output memory a reduced storage time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon Lee, Chang-Dae Park
  • Patent number: 7768520
    Abstract: In a video application, a method and system provide different sizes of data-fetch where the data transfer rate between a decoder and an external memory (e.g., DDR memory) is extremely high, as for example in HDTV systems. The invention in one form divides a reference frame into different tiles where each tile is hierarchically divided into smaller tiles to a level where the minimum tile size is the same as the fixed burst size of the DDR memory. The method also provides for arranging the biggest tiles into different banks and pages so that even if the block to be fetched falls across tile boundaries, the latency penalty in the tile transition will be minimized. The invention provides advantages also for progressive and interlaced data fetch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Ittiam Systems (P) Ltd.
    Inventor: Sutirtha Deb
  • Publication number: 20100188574
    Abstract: A device and method for controlling frame input and output are applied to the reception of image data from a source device and output of the image data to a destination device, the device includes a buffer, a buffer control circuit, and a frame write controller. The input pixel clock is not equal to the output pixel clock. The frame write controller generates a write permission signal according to the Input DE and the Output DE. The buffer control circuit generates a write control signal according to the Input DE and the write permission signal, and generates a read control signal according to the Output DE. The buffer receives the image data from the source device according to the write control signal and the input pixel clock, and outputs the image data to the destination device according to the read control signal and the output pixel clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Chia-Lung HUNG, Tzuo-Bo Lin, Hsien-Chun Chang, Yu-Pin Chou
  • Patent number: 7672573
    Abstract: A system includes an integrated encoder comprising an optical storage controller for coupling to an optical storage medium, and a data encoder for coding input data coupled to the optical storage controller, a first external memory coupled to a first memory controller in the integrated encoder, and a second external memory coupled to a second memory controller in the integrated encoder. In one aspect, the integrated encoder further comprises a first memory arbiter for selectively directing access to the first external memory by the optical storage controller and the data encoder, and a second memory arbiter for selectively directing access to the second external memory by the optical storage controller and the data encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tzu-Hsin Wang
  • Publication number: 20090310028
    Abstract: A system for controlling multiple electronic displays is presented. The system comprises a display manager capable of aggregating environmental data and deriving a context based on the data. In response to the context, the display manager can coordinate the display of content on the multiple displays. In some embodiments, the displays can be registered members of a group; a family for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Reza Sadri, Saied Kazemi
  • Patent number: 7595844
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method that facilitates compression of video data in a computer system by performing the time-consuming task of computing the difference between successive frames of video data independently from the central processing unit. This frees the often-overburdened central processing unit from performing this time-consuming compression operation and can thereby improve the handling of video data. Thus, one embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method thr compressing video data in a computer system. This method includes receiving a stream of data from a current video frame in the computer system. It also includes computing a difference frame from the current video frame and a previous video frame “on-the-fly” as the current video frame streams into the computer system. The method additionally includes storing the difference frame in a memory in the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Dean A. Klein
  • Patent number: 7583324
    Abstract: A video processing method utilized in a video data processing device for processing video data is disclosed. The video data includes at least a first video data set, and the video data processing device has a memory and a video decoder. The method includes utilizing the video decoder to decode the video data for generating a display data set, driving the video decoder to select a specific video data set from the first video data set wherein the display data set does not have display data corresponding to the specific video data set, and utilizing the memory to store the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Ming-Jane Hsieh, Yi-Shu Chang, Te-Ming Kuo, Shi-Wei Chen
  • Publication number: 20090167961
    Abstract: In an information terminal 10 of the present invention, a read unit 34 reads image data to be displayed from a storage device (20, 50). A display 12 displays an image based on the read image data. An image transformation unit 44 applies image transformation to the displayed image. A background image acquisition unit 60 acquires the image data on the image transformed by the image transformation unit 44 and displayed on the display 12, as background image data to be pasted to the background of the display 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Hironori Suzuki, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 7526024
    Abstract: Presented herein is a system for storing macroblocks for concatenated frames. A decoder system comprises a frame buffer. The frame buffer comprises one or more rows. A particular one of the rows stores macroblocks from a plurality of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar, Lakshmanan Ramakrishnan, Darren Neuman
  • Patent number: 7502075
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing modules, each performing an image processing function, and a central memory interface. The central memory interface accepts read and write memory the said plurality of processing modules and issues burst memory access requests to an external memory by gathering plural memory access requests from the processing modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: David E. Smith, Deependra Talla, Ching-Yu Hung
  • Publication number: 20080278629
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image quality adjustment device capable of generating an image of a highest image quality for an input image. The image quality adjustment device which adjusts image quality of an input image by applying different image quality settings to the input image includes: pieces of order information each of which indicates an order for applying plural image quality settings, a selection unit which selects optimal order information having a maximum evaluation value, and an adjustment unit which adjusts an image quality of input image based on the optimal order information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMADA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Tetsuya YOSHIZAKI, Junichi TERAI
  • Patent number: 7436891
    Abstract: An image data decompression apparatus for decoding blocks of motion compensated non-intra coded data uses a memory (14) storing reference picture data. A decoding processor (12) decodes a current block of a generated picture using lines of previously decoded image data from the memory (14) that are selected in dependence upon a motion vector (V1) for the current block. In order to improve access efficiency to the memory (14) the decoding processor (12) concatenates fetches into bursts for different sections of lines of previously decoded data that lie within a predetermined range within the memory addresses of the memory (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Taunton