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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443370 | YUV compression for boost A boost table stores adjusted target levels for pairs of original and target pixel levels. The adjusted target levels can be used to as a substitute for the target pixel level to improve pixel response in reaching the desired target pixel level. A reduced boost tabl... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441906 | Keystone correction system and method We describe a keystone correction system and method. A vertical scalar vertically scales an input image and stores the results to a line buffer. A horizontal scalar retrieves the stored results from the line buffer and horizontally scales the stored results using th... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7427993 | Motion adaptive pixel boost with data compression and decompression A compressed pixel level for a pixel in a frame of an image is compared with the (compressed) pixel level for the same pixel in a previous image frame. If the pixel level is unchanged, then the pixel is not moving. An uncompressed pixel level is then used for that p... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420625 | Fuzzy logic based adaptive Y/C separation system and method We describe and claim a fuzzy logic based adaptive Y/C separation system and method. The fuzzy logic based adaptive Y/C separation system includes an adaptive Y/C separator to use fuzzy logic to separate chrominance data in a video signal, and a panel to display the... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408540 | System and method for failsafe display of full screen high frequency images on a flat panel without a frame buffer The invention relates to a system and method for visually displaying data and, more particularly, to a system and method for displaying full screen high frequency data on a flat panel without using a frame buffer. The system and method displays a full screen, color,... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405741 | Fuzzy logic based LCD overdrive control method A boost table stores adjusted target levels for pairs of original and target pixel levels. The adjusted target levels can be used to as a substitute for the target pixel level to improve pixel response in reaching the desired target pixel level. A reduced boost tabl... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7391914 | Decoding of predicted DC coefficient without division A technique for eliminating the division in decoding a predicted DC coefficient includes calculating and storing the values of 1//DC_scalar in a table. This allows one to convert a division into a multiplication. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391472 | System and method for adaptive color burst phase correction We describe and claim an adaptive color burst phase correction system and method. The adaptive color burst phase correction system includes a signal detector to extract a color burst from a video signal, the color burst including a phase and an amplitude, an adaptiv... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7380946 | Semiautomatic keystone correction system and method The invention relates to a semiautomatic keystone correction system and method. The system includes an interface and a controller. A user selects a plurality of corners within an image projected on a projection surface using the interface and the controller predisto... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365796 | System and method for video signal decoding using digital signal processing A digital signal processing based decoder is disclosed. The decoder asynchronously samples video signals. By doing so, the decoder can work in pseudo real-time and without analog interface components improving performance while reducing cost. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360108 | Multi-link receiver and method for processing multiple data streams A multi-link receiving mechanism (MRM) is disclosed comprising a plurality of receivers. Each receiver receives a separate data stream, and all receivers receive the same clock signal. The data streams may arrive at the MRM out of alignment relative to each other (i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327400 | Automatic phase and frequency adjustment circuit and method The invention is a circuit and method for automatically adjusting the phase and frequency of a pixel clock derived from analog image data. The circuit includes a phase locked loop circuit adapted to generate a phase locked loop clock responsive to a reference signal... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324709 | Method and apparatus for two-dimensional image scaling An output pixel datum is produced from input pixel data by a method wherein the brightness levels of several input pixels closely associated coordinate-wise with the output pixel, are examined to determine whether a relatively less complex graphics-optimized scaling... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308153 | Weighted absolute difference based noise reduction method and apparatus The invention is a method and apparatus for reducing noise in an image. The method and apparatus involves calculating a plurality of directional operators, comparing the directional operators to a predetermined threshold, and applying a filter responsive to the comp... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304688 | Adaptive Y/C separator The present invention provides an apparatus and method for an adaptive Y/C separator that selects between input filters responsive to features of video signals. The adaptive Y/C separator can monitor the results of numerous filters and choose a combination of separa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7274404 | Motion object video on film detection and adaptive de-interlace method based on fuzzy logic A method and system for performing fuzzy logic based de-interlacing on film source fields that might be mixed with video on film. An embodiment of the invention comprises an adaptive de-interlacer by weighing between merge operation and interpolation operation in th... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6611260 | Ultra-high bandwidth multi-port memory system for image scaling applications The image scaling memory system of the present invention eliminates the use of internal or external line memories by using an existing frame memory coupled with an input buffer and a plurality of output buffers for providing a vertical scalar with simulta... | 08/26/2003 |
