With Variable Delay Patents (Class 386/203)
  • Patent number: 11409356
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing power consumed in processing units when processing units are used to calculate computationally expensive linear functions on a sequence of correlated data. Processing of a new data sample may be performed to consume less power by using results obtained from the processing a previous reference data sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Farnood Merrikh Bayat
  • Patent number: 10574937
    Abstract: A method for image processing has been disclosed. The method includes obtaining one or more images, wherein the one or more images are played at a first frame rate, segmenting each of the one or more images into a plurality of first sub-images based on a resolution supported by each of a plurality of connected interfaces of a display device, wherein the plurality of first sub-images match the resolution supported by each of a plurality of connected interfaces of a display device respectively, in response to a same synchronizing signal, adjusting synchronously the first frame rate of each of the plurality of first sub-images to a second frame rate respectively, converting each adjusted first sub-image to an output format corresponding to an output format of an interface matching the each adjusted first sub-image, and providing each converted first sub-image to an interface matching the each converted first sub-image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lihua Geng
  • Patent number: 10129525
    Abstract: A broadcast transmitter, a broadcast receiver, and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. A 3D video data processing method includes processing, by a video formatter, 3D video data, encoding, by an encoder, 3D video data, generating, by a system information processor, system information having 3D video composition information including information about the processing and encoding of 3D video data, multiplexing, by a multiplexer, the system information and the 3D video data, and transmitting, by a transmitter, a broadcast signal. In a 3D video data processing method, a receiver receives a broadcast signal including 3D video data and system information, a system information processor obtains 3D video composition information by parsing the system information, a decoder decodes the 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information, and an output formatter formats and outputs the decoded 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Yeul Suh, Jeong Hyu Yang
  • Patent number: 9762885
    Abstract: A broadcast transmitter, a broadcast receiver, and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. A 3D video data processing method includes processing, by a video formatter, 3D video data, encoding, by an encoder, 3D video data, generating, by a system information processor, system information having 3D video composition information including information about the processing and encoding of 3D video data, multiplexing, by a multiplexer, the system information and the 3D video data, and transmitting, by a transmitter, a broadcast signal. In a 3D video data processing method, a receiver receives a broadcast signal including 3D video data and system information, a system information processor obtains 3D video composition information by parsing the system information, a decoder decodes the 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information, and an output formatter formats and outputs the decoded 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Yeul Suh, Jeong Hyu Yang
  • Patent number: 9756311
    Abstract: A broadcast transmitter, a broadcast receiver, and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. A 3D video data processing method includes processing, by a video formatter, 3D video data, encoding, by an encoder, 3D video data, generating, by a system information processor, system information having 3D video composition information including information about the processing and encoding of 3D video data, multiplexing, by a multiplexer, the system information and the 3D video data, and transmitting, by a transmitter, a broadcast signal. In a 3D video data processing method, a receiver receives a broadcast signal including 3D video data and system information, a system information processor obtains 3D video composition information by parsing the system information, a decoder decodes the 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information, and an output formatter formats and outputs the decoded 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Yeul Suh, Jeong Hyu Yang
  • Patent number: 9509951
    Abstract: Conference systems are used to support discussions in meeting rooms or plenary halls, whereby the conference systems usually comprise a plurality of delegate units for participants of the discussion. It is furthermore known, that conference systems comprise a display for displaying the active speaker in a conference. Especially in large conferences with a plurality of participants more than one camera is used for viewing the different active speakers to be displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Antonie Van Woerdekom
  • Patent number: 9143750
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for processing media in a convergence media service platform. The apparatus includes a media-based sensory effect (MSE) processing unit, an AV processing unit, a sensory effect processing unit, and a media creation unit. The MSE processing unit extracts one or more sensory effects from Audio/Video (AV) media. The AV processing unit separates AV media into an audio and a video, and decodes the AV media based on media format. The sensory effect processing unit adds the extracted sensory effects in synchronization with the waveform of the separate audio, and edits the attributes of the added sensory effects. The media creation unit creates convergence media by adding the added sensory effects to the AV media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Hyun-Woo Oh
  • Patent number: 9031375
    Abstract: An electronic device may determine to present a video frame still image sequence version of a video instead of the video. The electronic device may derive a plurality of still images from the video. The electronic device may generate the video frame still image sequence by associating the plurality of still images. The electronic device may present the video frame still image sequence. The video frame still image sequence may be displayed according to timing information to resemble play of the video. In some cases, audio may also be derived from the video. In such cases, display of the video frame still image sequence may be performed along with play of the audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Rapt Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Tucker Trautman, Jonathan R. A. Woodard
  • Patent number: 9025081
    Abstract: A system comprises logic adapted to concurrently provide an electrical signal to each of a plurality of audio channels. An acoustic sensor is coupled to the logic. The acoustic sensor receives sound signals generated based on the electrical signals. The logic further determines a time lag between the received sound signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Campbell
  • Patent number: 9014532
    Abstract: A transmitter (14) of audio, video, or other real-time information reads the information from a persistent store (22) in which the real-time information has been stored in the Real-time-Transport Protocol (“RTP”) format (FIG. 4). A receiver (18) receives the information from the channel (16) through which the transmitter (14) has transmitted it, and the receiver may store the information in a persistent store (24) in RTP format instead of or in addition to playing it by applying it to an appropriate player (20). Parts of this communications circuit may be tested by a tester unit (26) that also employs RTP-format information from a persistent store (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Falco
  • Publication number: 20150063774
    Abstract: Synchronous playback of time-based media received from one or more locations remote from a primary editing/mixing studio is achieved by time-stamping media samples with a local presentation time before streaming them to the primary studio. At the primary studio, samples having the same presentation timestamp are played back at the same time, independently of the samples' arrival time at the playback system. Media stored locally to the playback system may also be included as part of the synchronous playback using locally computed presentation times. In order to accommodate media streaming transmission delays, the playback system negotiates a suitable delay with the remote systems such that samples corresponding to a given presentation time are received at the playback system from remote locations prior to playback of media corresponding to the given presentation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Brown, JR.
  • Patent number: 8948571
    Abstract: A receiver allows controlling a device to be controlled such as a display device based on reference timing acquired from reception data without delay and with low power consumption, and includes: a communication device receiving data incoming intermittently; a first control circuit analyzing the data received by the communication device to identify the presence of a predetermined reference timing signal pattern in the data; and a timer for counting a clock from an initial value, generating a control signal for the device to be controlled according to a resulting count value, and if the count value reaches a predetermined interval value, resuming counting the clock at the initial value. The timer changes the initial value to reduce a count of the clock between the initial value and the interval value if the first control circuit identifies the predetermined reference timing signal pattern to be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 8934753
    Abstract: An exemplary method for synchronizing audio playback of a plurality of digital media renders. The digital media renders include a digital audio/video (AV) media render and at least one digital audio media render. The method includes: detecting a relative time position difference between the digital AV media render and the at least one digital audio media render; and controlling audio playback of the digital audio media render to synchronize to audio playback of the digital AV media render according to the relative time position difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting-Yuan Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140376873
    Abstract: A video-audio processing device including a video output unit, an audio output unit, an audio transmitting unit, a controlling unit which switches an operation mode between (a) a first mode in which the audio signal is outputted from the audio output unit and the audio signal is transmitted from the audio transmitting unit and (b) a second mode in which the video signal is outputted from the video output unit and the audio signal is transmitted from the audio transmitting unit, a receiving unit which receives an input of delay information indicating an audio delay amount during the first mode, an audio delaying unit which delays the audio signal according to the audio delay amount, and a video delaying unit which delays the video signal by a video delay amount that is in accordance with the audio delay amount during the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanaka, Takeshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8908010
    Abstract: A method of processing a video input, having a first video bitstream transmitting pictures of a first view and a second video bitstream transmitting pictures of a second view, includes: checking the video input to detect if a first picture of one of the first and second views is correctly paired with a second picture of the other of the first and second views for specific presentation time; and referring to a detecting result for selectively performing a predetermined processing operation upon the video input. The video input transmits the second picture while transmitting the first picture. When the detecting result indicates that the first picture is not correctly paired with the second picture for the specific presentation time, both of the first picture and the second picture are skipped, and previous pictures that are correctly paired with each other for the specific presentation time is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Hui Yu, Jer-Min Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8903218
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing audio playback of a plurality of digital media renders including a first digital audio media render and at least one second digital audio media render. The method includes: detecting a relative time difference between the first digital audio media render and the at least one second digital audio media render, and controlling audio playback of the at least one second digital audio media render according to the relative time difference, to make audio playback of the at least one second digital media render synchronized with audio playback of the first digital audio media render.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting-Yuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 8867887
    Abstract: An audio data capturing device captures packetized multimedia data transmitted through a transmission path from a stage unit, and converts the packetized multimedia data to original audio data. A storage section stores the data. An audio data delivery section packetizes audio data stored in the storage section and transmits it to the mixer through the transmission path. A path switching control section performs switching-control among the stage unit, the mixer, the audio data capturing section and the audio data delivery section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Kamijo
  • Publication number: 20140254999
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention discloses a data access method comprising: (a) receiving a plurality of data units consisting of filtered data units and un-filtered data units; (b) filtering the filtered data units; (c) storing the un-filtered data units; (d) recovering the timings of the un-filtered data units stored in the step (c) according to the received timings of the data units received in the step (a); (e) inserting replacement data units to replace the filtered data units, wherein each of the replacement data units has the same timing as each of the filtered data units; and (f) outputting the un-filtered data units and the replacement data units according to the timings of the un-filtered data units and the timing of the replacement data unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Te-Chuan Wang, Tsung-Hsiu Ko
  • Patent number: 8677442
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of sending commands to a VOD server, e.g. using RTSP, which is local to the client, said commands comprising a reference to the relative current position. The current relative position is maintained by the receiver on the basis of PTS received in the MPEG stream, without sending a request to the server or relying on the existence of a descriptor in the stream that can be used to deal with jumps in PTS included in the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Colmagro, Benoit Mercier, Thierry Quere
  • Patent number: 8643699
    Abstract: A method of processing a video input which transmits pictures of a first view and pictures of a second view includes: checking the video input to detect if a first picture of one of the first and second views is correctly paired with a second picture of the other of the first and second views for a specific presentation time, and accordingly generating a detecting result; and referring to the detecting result for selectively performing a predetermined processing operation upon the video input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Hui Yu, Jer-Min Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8640170
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects a program (60 or 62) listed in displayed schedule information (50), the system (10) reads the source identifier attached to the program's channel (52). The system (10) then carries out an automatic switching/tuning such that the required source device (26, 28, 30 or 34) is input to the destination device (22), and a tuner is then tuned to the selected program's channel (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Starsight Telecast, Incorporated
    Inventor: Brian Lee Klosterman
  • Patent number: 8634694
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a video replay system and a control method thereof in which the video replay speed is automatically controlled based on the note-taking speed of each viewer. The video replay system of the present invention comprises storage means for storing the video data; video replay means for replaying a video by reading the stored video data out of the storage means and displaying the video data on the display; detection means for monitoring a predetermined viewing behavior of a viewer of the replayed video, and for detecting a parameter associated with the viewing behavior; and automatic controlling means for, in response to the parameter detected by the detection means, automatically controlling the speed at which the video is replayed by the video replay means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Benesse Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yachi
  • Patent number: 8572273
    Abstract: Provided are a multimedia data reproducing method and an apparatus for controlling a multimedia data reproducing speed based on a multimedia data packet receiving speed. The method including controlling a reproducing speed of the multimedia data based on a first time difference between times at which a plurality of packets including the multimedia data are respectively received and a second time difference between times to respectively reproduce the multimedia data corresponding to the plurality of packets; and reproducing the multimedia data at the controlled reproducing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-hyun Lim, Yong-gyoo Kim, Gil-yoon Kim, Tae-sung Park, Su-hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8428426
    Abstract: A digital video recording/playback apparatus is provided in which maximum delay can be easily changed in accordance with the bit rate of inputted video data. The digital video recording/playback apparatus includes a memory unit, a playback unit, a synchronization unit, a synchronization signal counter, and a controller. The synchronization signal counter counts a synchronization signal to generate a frame counter value. The controller outputs a reading start instruction for the video data to the memory unit, and a decoding start instruction for the video data to the playback unit. The controller is configured to determine a first process completion time limit represented by the frame counter value as a process completion time limit for the memory unit and to determine a second process completion time limit represented by the frame counter value as a process completion time limit for the playback unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akihiko Nakao
  • Patent number: 8390484
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a transmitted/received data decoding method and apparatus, which achieve effects of decoding performance improvement and synchronous detection. The decoding method includes setting a coded edge pattern, and filtering a received data by using the set coded edge pattern as a window; respectively computing absolute values of filtered values filtered by using the coded edge pattern windows; detecting a maximum absolute value from the computed absolute values; determining a sign (+/?) for the detected maximum absolute value; outputting an intermediate bit value of the corresponding original data as a resultant decoded value according to the determined sign and a window type (i.e. coded edge patter) with the selected maximum absolute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: FCI Inc.
    Inventor: Chang-ik Hwang
  • Patent number: 8285106
    Abstract: Audio data is prevented from not synchronizing with video data when splicing. A first GOP of a video stream of a second program is spliced to a last GOP of a video stream of a first program. A first GOP of an audio stream of the second program is spliced to a last GOP of an audio stream of the first program. In this case, a gap amount PTS_FS required for synchronizing video data and audio data after the splicing is computed for each GOP. For the splicing processing, a gap amount PTS_FS_SPLYCE caused when the last GOP is spliced to the first GOP directly and the PTS_FS are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoko Komori
  • Patent number: 8233765
    Abstract: A computing system that has access to a streamed multimedia sample that is stored on a storage medium applies a zero-based presentation timestamp numbering scheme to the data packets of the multimedia sample, on-the-fly, and after each seek operation. After seeking to a desired starting point, the computing system reads ahead a maximum number of data packets within each media stream of the multimedia sample. A smallest timestamp (normalizing presentation timestamp) is identified and then subtracted from the timestamps of the data packets that are transmitted to the appropriate rendering devices, thereby creating appropriate presentation timestamps for the data packets for synchronizing the playback of the multimedia sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Matthijs A. Gates, Jai Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 8111326
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to synchronizing portions of video as a function of the post-capture generation of synchronization points for audio, the portions of video being captured at multiple cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Abhishek Talwar
  • Patent number: 8111971
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of reducing video delay in a program stream comprises: setting an audio reference clock to an initial value based on a presentation timestamp for a frame that is the first decodable frame in the audio stream; setting a video reference clock to an initial value based on a presentation timestamp for a frame that is the first decodable frame in the video stream; starting audio and video reference clocks responsive to the later of a minimum buffer fill delay and receipt of a frame that is the first entire decodable frame in the video stream; decoding the audio stream in accordance with the audio reference clock; and decoding the video stream in accordance with the video reference clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Tankut Akgul
  • Patent number: 8107786
    Abstract: Systems and methods to modify playout or playback include a first and second approach to respond to a trick mode request (e.g., fast forward, rewind). First, a trick mode request may be responded to by associating primary content to secondary content and playing out the secondary content on a receiving device, the secondary content not being derived from the primary content. Second, a trick mode request may be responded to by associating primary content to secondary content and playing out the secondary content on a receiving device, the secondary content being derived from the primary content but played at a normal speed for the secondary content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Open TV, Inc.
    Inventor: Esteban Sardera
  • Patent number: 8027560
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a digital In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system in a vehicle, such as an aircraft, that is capable of presenting a video program and associated audio in a synchronized manner to a large number of individual video monitors and speakers. The system and method employ processing operations in at least one decoder of the IFE system, to perform operations such as adjusting a local clock based on a master clock, setting a delay time in relation to a master clock, and adjusting video and audio playback based on the delay, to substantially synchronize playback of the audio and video data by the audio and video players, to thus eliminate or at least minimize the negative effects of source and load based jitter, network delays, clock drifts, network errors and decoder buffering differences, on synchronizing video and audio playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Brady, Jr., Lyle K. Norton, George Treneer
  • Patent number: 8005338
    Abstract: The following configuration is preferable for providing a digital broadcast-enabled recording and reproducing device involving no lip-sync error and offering good usability. For example, the recording and reproducing device includes a receiver that receives digital broadcast data, a video/audio signal generator that generates a video signal and an audio signal included in the digital broadcast data received by the receiver, an image processing unit that executes image processing of the video signal input from the video/audio signal generator; and a delay unit that receives the audio signal generated by the video/audio signal generator to adjust time lag between the received audio signal and the video signal processed by the image processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Shimagami, Atsuhiro Ono
  • Patent number: 7983525
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a synchronization-signal generator configured to generate a predetermined synchronization signal on the basis of a reference synchronization signal; a resolution converter configured to convert a second signal into a third signal when a received signal is the second signal, the second signal being different from a first signal having a first resolution and the second signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, and the third signal having the first resolution; a delayer configured to delay the first signal received when the received signal is the first signal, by a predetermined time taken to convert the second signal into the third signal; and a recorder configured to record the first signal delayed by the delayer or the third signal obtained by converting the second signal by the resolution converter, on a recording medium on the basis of the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7050698
    Abstract: A modified Colorstripe™ copy protection process utilizes a basic anti-copy protection (ACP) signal that causes attenuation of a video signal, wherein, in one embodiment, the process modifies (lowers) the level of a front porch portion and adds an incorrect color signal (color burst) in the region of the sync tip. When an illegal copy is made, a pre-blanked end of line portion causes a TV set to trigger the color burst sample pulse ahead of time and cause the incorrect color signal in the sync tip region to be sampled. Thus, since the sync tip region has incorrect color phase or frequency, the resulting illegal copy will have enhanced color distortions. In other embodiments, other portions of the horizontal blanking interval are lowered in level and incorrect color bursts are added to a portion or portions of the back porch and/or a portion of the front porch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Macrovision Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald Quan