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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059506 | Digital video recorder wide dynamic range optical power calibration A method and apparatus are presented for optimizing write operations for optical storage media. A determination is made, at least in part by iteration, of a next power range and a current score for a current power range. If it is determined that the current score is... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7426315 | Method for reducing blocking artifacts A method for removing blocking artifacts from moving and still pictures, comprising classifying horizontal and vertical boundaries in each picture as blocky or non-blocky; for each blocky boundary, defining an adaptive, picture content-dependent, one-dimensional fil... | 09/16/2008 |
| 6839091 | Recovering data encoded in television signals Recovering data (e.g., closed captioning data, teletext data) encoded in television signals. A line encoding the data is over-sampled. The resulting samples are examined to determine the average number of samples spanning the low and high values in a run-in period. ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6806910 | Processing multiple streams of data encoded in respective VBI channels with a shared equalizer A circuit for recovering the data encoded in several VBI channels without requiring a large number of gates. An analog to digital converter (ADC) and a clock and data recovery circuit may be associated with one of several possible channels. ADC over samples each VBI... | 10/19/2004 |
| 5712665 | Dynamic random access memory for MPEG decoding A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for use in MPEG decoding includes d devices each having r rows and c columns with b bits per cell and p samples, where b*d is divisible by 8 and r*c is larger than a sum of upstream buffers in bytes and either 2 or 3 ... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5623314 | MPEG decoder memory data storage and transfer Data transfer and timing in an external DRAM memory of an MPEG decoder utilizes a repetitive pattern for synchronous writing and reading of data and data refresh including a sequence header at the beginning of a picture, a macroblock header for each of th... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5557538 | MPEG decoder An MPEG decoder which distributes the processing load to a plurality of processors and units including an external memory and a bus interface unit, a de-multiplexing data processor, an image data processor, an inverse transform and reconstruction processo... | 09/17/1996 |
