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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4792856 | Sampled data memory system as for a television picture magnification system A television picture magnification system which provides real-time magnified video images includes a memory system which stores L horizontal line intervals of samples representing one field of the unmagnified video image during a first time interval and w... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4791488 | Line-locked clock signal generation system A television receiver includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) which generates a clock signal having a frequency of N times the line frequency and being phase-locked to the horizontal line synchronizing signal. The clock signal produced by this PLL has a freque... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4789960 | Dual port video memory system having semi-synchronous data input and data output A dual port video memory system includes a serial-to-parallel converter coupled to the input data port and a parallel-to-serial converter coupled to the output data port. Four-bit pixel values are clocked into the serial-to-parallel converter synchronous ... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4785349 | Digital video decompression system A full motion color digital video signal is compressed, formatted for transmission, recorded on compact disc media and decoded at conventional video frame rates. During compression, regions of a frame are individually analyzed to select optimum fill codin... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4782391 | Multiple input digital video features processor for TV signals A video features processor for use with a display device includes a first clock that is line locked to the display and a skew-shifted second clock that is phase locked to the horizontal sync component of an auxiliary video signal. An A/D converter, respon... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4774581 | Television picture zoom system A digital video zoom system includes circuitry for writing image samples into a memory at a standard rate and for reading samples from the memory at a reduced rate. Samples are read from the memory under control of a digital accumulator which repeatedly a... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4772937 | Skew signal generating apparatus for digital TV A divider divides down the output of a high frequency oscillator to generate a master clock signal MCS for the purposes of sampling an incoming composite video signal CVS. A skew measuring circuit latches the current state of the divider at a predetermine... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4769691 | Burst locked oscillator with side-lock protection A burst locked phase locked loop (PLL) includes a relatively wide-band voltage controlled oscillator. This PLL may erroneously lock at a frequency which differs form the frequency of burst by an amount equal to the horizontal line frequency. To prevent th... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768083 | Digital TV having on-screen display feature A television pix-in-pix system includes a pixel memory for storing one field of pixel intensity values of a television signal. A 1-bit overlay indication signal representative of pixel address locations defining a desired indicia on the TV screen is store... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4761686 | TV receiver having freeze field display An interpolating apparatus for generating a pair of non-identical, interlaced fields from a single stored field of video signal. One of the interlaced fields is generated by adding three-fourths of one line's amplitude to one-fourth of the next line's amp... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4750039 | Circuitry for processing a field of video information to develop two compressed fields A picture-within-a-picture television receiver includes circuitry for displaying a reduced-size frozen image developed from an auxiliary signal as an inset in the main image. To develop signals representing two fields of the compressed auxiliary image, th... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4717951 | Adaptive digital filter A picture-in-picture television receiver for which the viewer may change the size of the inset image includes an adaptive anti-aliasing filter. Composite video signals which produce the inset image are applied to a separation filter which attenuates the c... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4712130 | Chrominance signal frequency converter as for a pix-in-pix television receiver A pix-in-pix television signal processing system develops a composite video pix-in-pix signal representing a reduced-size auxiliary image insert in a full-sized main image. The auxiliary video signal is separated into luminance and chrominance components ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4709226 | Circuitry for complementing binary numbers Circuitry for forming the twos complement or ones complement of M-bit binary numbers is described. The circuitry includes M stages each of which contains an exclusive NOR gate. A first input terminal of the exclusive NOR gate is coupled to receive one bit... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4703357 | Adaptive television deghosting system An adaptive television deghosting system operates on modulated video signals including a direct signal component and one or more ghost signal components. The system uses synchronously demodulated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband video signals as the... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4700217 | Chrominance signal phase locked loop system for use in a digital television receiver having a line-locked clock signal A digital television receiver which uses a line-locked clock signal employs chrominance signal demodulation circuitry which produces a digital oscillatory signal that is locked in phase to the color reference burst signal component of the incoming video s... | 10/13/1987 |
