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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110626 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING MEMORY USAGE ON A COMPUTING DEVICE Systems and methods of managing memory usage on a computing device include obtaining a data file having a first quality and a first file size. A modified quality data file is automatically generated from the obtained data file responsive to obtaining the data file. The ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105717 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, And Image Processing Program The invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program which enable accurately observing a moving image of an object within a time interval within which the object is in a desired state. A control unit performs an ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105716 | Preservation/degradation of video/audio aspects of a data stream In one aspect, a method related to data management. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081601 | Video over Internet to Multiple Display Devices Video data is sent over a number of different channels in the TCP/IP format, and then converted. By sending the data in this format, bandwidth problems to the multiple users can be avoided.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081602 | FILTER MODULE FOR A VIDEO DECODING SYSTEM Systems and methods are disclosed for filter modules in a video display system or network. One embodiment relates to a method for operating a filter module in a video display network comprising determining a picture type, display type and operation of the display networ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050610 | Device and Method for Accessing Video Capturing Equipment into Secondary Generation Network A device which accesses a video capturing equipment into a next generation network is disclosed in the present invention. The device includes a setting module for reading image formats supported by a video capturing equipment, setting a captured image format of the vide... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044985 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TRANSMISSION DATE FORMAT To allow a broadcast transmission to be preformed successfully. A source device 10 reads out EDID from EDID ROMs 30a-1 to 30a-N of sink devices 30-1 to 30-N, respectively, by us... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033130 | DETECTING OCCLUSION Common techniques for Motion Compensated Frame Rate Conversion (MC-FRC) suffer from occlusion which, if not taken explicitly into account, causes a visually disturbing artifact known as ‘halo’. To solve this artifact, these regions have to be detected prior to perfo... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033042 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY OBSERVING SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an image display device including a high frame rate signal generating unit that increases a frame rate of an input video signal, a frame rate adjusting unit that adjusts a frame rate by synthesizing a black image at intervals of a predetermined frame on a hi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033129 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHOD A transmission and receiving apparatus includes: a receiving section receiving a content signal conforming to a predetermined transmission standard, and restoring a video signal included in the content signal to output the video signal; a video-signal processing section... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026390 | Interpolation Frame Generating Apparatus and Interpolation Frame Generating Method According to one embodiment, there is provided an interpolation frame generating apparatus, including: an input module configured to receive plural frames; a reading module configured to read, among the received plural frames, two or more frames each time; a detecting m... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026391 | FRAME INTERPOLATION APPARATUS A frame interpolation apparatus receives moving images from an image generating apparatus that outputs moving images by increasing the number of frames by adding n units (n being a natural number) of copy frame following each frame of the moving images. A frame acquisit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120013794 | IMAGE CONVERTING DEVICE AND IMAGE CONVERTING SYSTEM Means which enables image conversion in which a plurality of conversion results can be output without once saving all of video-image data, which has been input from image-pickup means, in a storage medium is provided. A single line memory having a plurality of lines is ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013795 | Information Handling System with Processing System, Low-power Processing System and Shared Resources An information handling system includes a processing system, a low-power processing system, and a chipset. The processing system is configured to operate using a power system configured to power a shared resource of the processing system and a non-shared resource of the... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013796 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TANGIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM An information processing apparatus has: a first motion vector calculation unit which determines a first motion vector between one image frame and an image frame immediately before this one image frame in a second image frame group which frame rate is an n number of fra... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013797 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD A video processing apparatus for converting frame rates of video signals includes: a video characteristic detection unit (29) that detects, from an input video signal, as characteristics of the video signal, whether or not the video signal is of a film material a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017072 | MODIFYING A VIDEO RESOLUTION OF VIDEO DATA IN A PRE-OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT Code (104) is run in a computer (100) to establish a pre-operating system (OS) environment. Video data is generated in the pre-OS environment for display at a display device (122), where the video data has a first video resolution. A video resolutio... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING GRAPHICAL DATA A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving graphical data are provided. The apparatus for transmitting includes a graphical data generating unit that generates graphical data; an encoder that converts the graphical data into a JPEG 2000 code stream; and a tra... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002108 | Extender In one embodiment, there is provided an extender for extending functions of an electronic apparatus. The extender includes: a connection terminal electrically connected to the electronic apparatus; input signal lines connected to the connection terminal to transmit a vi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002106 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an image display device including a high frame rate signal generating unit (20) that increases a frame rate of an input video signal, a frame rate adjusting unit (30) that adjusts a frame rate by setting a non-emission frame at a predetermined ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002104 | PORTABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS OF VIDEO SIGNAL A portable display apparatus of a video signal including a video signal source, a signal masking module, and a display panel is provided. The video signal source generates a data enable signal and a clock signal. The signal masking module is electrically connected to th... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002105 | Video Signal Interpolation Device, Video Display Device, and Video Signal Interpolation Method According to one embodiment, a video signal interpolation device includes a motion vector detector, an interpolation frame generator, an analyzer, and an enhancer. The motion vector detector detects a motion vector from two consecutive image frames. The interpolation fr... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317067 | DEVICE HAVING FUNCTIONS OF HIGH DEFINITION CONVERSION AND AUDIO SUPPORTING Provided is a device having functions of high definition conversion and audio supporting, including an analog video and audio unit, an extended display identification data (EDID) electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) module, an ADC, a high-definit... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311021 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus includes a thin-out processing unit configured to execute thin-out processing for a series of original medical images, a display unit configured to display the series of medical images generated by the thin-... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310295 | Apparatus and method for frame rate conversion The disclosure is regarding an apparatus and a method for frame rate conversion. The frame rate conversion apparatus, for receiving at least two input frames to generate at lease one output frame, comprises a motion estimation module for generating a candidate list comp... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310222 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DISTRIBUTING METHOD THEREOF An image distributing apparatus, a display apparatus, and an image distributing method thereof are provided. The image distributing apparatus includes: an image input unit which receives an input signal comprising an image signal and a first sync signal for synchronizin... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304767 | DONGLE DEVICE WITH VIDEO ENCODING AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A universal serial bus (USB) dongle device includes a USB interface that receives selection data from a host device that indicates a selection of a first video format from a plurality of available formats. The USB interface also receives an input video signal from the h... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298972 | System and process for image rescaling using adaptive interpolation kernel with sharpness and de-ringing control A digital video rescaling system is provided. The system includes an image data input configured to receive input support pixels y1 to yn and a sharpness control module configured to generate a sharpness control parameter Kshp. The system further i... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298975 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE INCORPORATING THE SAME An object is to realize downsizing and cost reduction of a display device by efficiently using a physical region of a memory in a control circuit of the display device. A structure of a video data storage portion of the control circuit is that provided with a video data... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298973 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD To interpolate a frame between the current frame and a first delayed frame preceding the current frame, an image processing device generates test interpolation data for the first delayed frame from data in point-symmetric positions in the current frame and in a second d... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298974 | Predictive Interpolation of a Video Signal A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating an interpolated base frame image; receiving a first previously decoded difference picture; receiving a second previously decoded difference picture; genera... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302357 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC MULTI-LINK COMPILATION PARTITIONING Systems and methods for dynamic multi-link compilation partitioning. In particular, some implementations of the present invention relate to systems and methods for connecting a computer processing unit to a video display through the use of a wide variety of video displa... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285869 | SERIAL DATA SENDING AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL CAMERA A serial data sending and receiving apparatus includes a sending unit and a receiving unit. The sending unit includes an inserting unit carrying out iterative insertion of inserting, between each of adjacent pairs of line data, a piece of determining information. Each o... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285903 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD Provided is a receiving apparatus including: a first receiving unit which receives a content signal including a first signal and a second signal corresponding to a predetermined transmission standard, recovers the first signal and the second signal included in the conte... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285902 | DISPLAY DEVICE, FRAME RATE CONVERSION DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD A display device includes: a frame rate conversion section performing frame rate conversion through performing a frame interpolation process on a composite picture frame with use of a motion vector, in which the composite picture frame is generated through superimposing... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280413 | System and Method For Protecting Transmissions of Wireless Microphones Operating in Television Band White Space A wireless microphone system broadcasts a pilot tone at the designated ATSC pilot position in the TV Band channel being used by the wireless microphone system. The pilot tone is a readily detectable waveform transmitted in the ATSC pilot position. The pilot tone can be ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279641 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CROPPING, TEMPORALLY-COHERENT WARPING AND RETARGETING A method for warping a video is provided. The method for warping a video, comprising steps of (a) receiving a video having at least a frame having a specific area; (b) defining a target video cube having a predetermined warping ratio and including the specific area; and... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279728 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS TO TRANSMIT MOVING IMAGE DATA An image processing apparatus includes a moving image generating unit, an instruction unit, a control unit, an additional information generating unit, a multiplexing unit, and a transmitting unit. The control unit controls the moving image generating unit in accordance ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110267536 | FRAME RATE CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD Correlation detectors 21 and 22 employ two different correlation detecting methods to determine correlations. Correlation comparators 23 and 24 output correlation values DF1 and DF2, and motion vectors MV1 and MV2 ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261255 | VIDEO DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING VIDEO DISPLAY PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON A video display device includes: a valid area judging unit; a scene change detector; a video conversion processor; and a video display unit. The valid area judging unit recognizes an input video signal and judges an aspect ratio of a valid area of the input video signal... | 10/27/2011 |
