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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110317071 | INPUT SELECTION MECHANISM FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE A television includes at least two ports (e.g. HDMI ports). The television polls the ports before presenting a user interface that displays some or all of the ports and before toggling between any two of the ports. The polling ascertains whether a device is connected to... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110292281 | BROADCAST METHOD AND SYSTEM A method and system for airing broadcast signals is disclosed. Preferably, the system includes a production truck interface panel receiving a broadcast signal. A transmission relay circuit relays the signal from the interface panel to a broadcast network, and preferably... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279729 | ASPECT RATIO ENHANCEMENT An adaptive compensation system for aspect ratio conversion. Video information, intended for her first aspect ratio display, e.g. the standard NTSC aspect ratio, is processed to determine additional information that can enable that video to be displayed and fill a wider... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110102675 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING CONTENT SELECTION MENUS A content output device identifies a set of content including both high definition content and standard definition content. The content output device determines whether an associated presentation device is capable of presenting high definition content. The content outpu... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110063507 | AUTOMATIC VIDEO FORMAT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM A video format identification system includes a master clock circuit which provides timing and counting signals, a synchronization activity detector operatively coupled to the master clock circuit, and a synchronization width qualifier configured to filter out noise or ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110032426 | VIDEO STANDARD DETECTOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF A video standard detector and operation method thereof are provided. The video standard detector includes a low pass filter (LPF) unit and a standard detector unit. The LPF filters a baseband signal. The feature detector detects vertical synchronization information of t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100171877 | Digital Detector for ATSC Digital Television Signals A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprisin... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100165198 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD A communication apparatus includes a first determination unit that determines whether an external apparatus can transmit device information of the external apparatus to the communication apparatus, a device information acquisition unit that acquires the device informati... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100128179 | DISPLAY APPARATUS USING EXTERNAL DEVICE CONNECTION UNIT AND METHOD OF DETERMINING FORMAT OF INPUT IMAGE THEREOF A display apparatus connected to an external device through a connection unit and a method of determining the format of an input image uses a connection unit to be connected to an external device and determines the format of a video signal input through the connection u... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128178 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HOT PLUG DETECT FUNCTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL USING HIGH DEFINITION MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE An apparatus and method for supporting a Hot Plug Detect (HPD) function in a portable terminal using High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) are provided. The apparatus includes an HPD unit for generating an HPD signal using an operation voltage of a first modem upo... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128177 | SIGNAL PROCESSING UNITS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING PLUG-IN DETECTION Signal processing units capable of providing plug-in detection without an external circuit occupying GPIO resource are provided, in which a switching element is coupled to a television signal output pad, a terminal resistor is coupled between the switching element and a... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100118194 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE According to one embodiment, a video display device has a connection unit configured to connect to a plurality of external instruments via a network, a receiving unit configured to receive, from the plurality of external instrument connected to the video display device ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100110293 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING NOISE A noise determining apparatus is provided. The noise determining apparatus includes a video determiner which determines type of video according to a pre-set criterion, a noise level determiner which determines a level of noise with reference to output from the video det... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103317 | Recording Medium Containing Supplementary Service Information For Audio/Video Contents, and Method and Apparatus of Providing Supplementary Service Information of the Recording Medium The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100053435 | PLUGGABLE INTERACTIVE TELEVSION Techniques are disclosed herein that provide a TV receiver that supports a set of existing iTV standards and proprietary iTV implementations. Further, the TV receiver can be extended to support additional iTV standards and proprietary iTV implementations. A digital tele... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100033630 | METHODS AND RELATED APPARATUS MAKING EFFECTIVE USE OF BANDWIDTH OF STORAGE DEVICE TO GENERATE INTERPOLATED FRAMES A method of interpolated frame generation and input source detection includes: receiving input frames; storing at least a first frame of successive frames in the input frames into a storage device under a film mode; comparing the stored first frame with a second frame o... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100013998 | INTELLIGENT TASK BASED USER INTERFACE FOR TELEVISION Systems and methods for the implementation of a task or activities based user interface on a television on screen display (OSD) and a remote control unit. As provided in the embodiments described herein, the embodiments utilize the device auto detect mechanisms incorpor... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090185076 | VGA port signal examining apparatus and method thereof This present invention is a VGA port signal examining apparatus and method thereof. By intercepting the analog signals transmitted from the VGA port to the monitor, such as vertical signals, horizontal signals, R-signals, G-signals, and B-signals, and by examining the r... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090167939 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, a video signal processor has a moving block determining module, a vertical edge detector, a moving block number counter, a moving field determining module, a pulldown pattern detector, and a pulldown signal determining module. The moving blo... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090167946 | Image display device, method for indicating connector, and connector An image display device and a connector are disclosed. The image display device includes: a connector connected with a cable through which a video signal is transmitted; a display panel for displaying an image based on the video signal inputted via the cable to the conn... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090141172 | TV System, Multimedia Processing Apparatus, and Method Thereof A TV system, a multimedia processing apparatus, and a method thereof are provided. The TV system comprises a multimedia processing apparatus and a display unit. The multimedia processing apparatus comprises a multiplexer, a controller, and a detector. The multiplexer re... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090109336 | VIDEO DEVICE, OUTPUT SWITCHING METHOD FOR VIDEO DEVICE, AND CABLE DISCRIMINATING METHOD A video device comprises: a video signal processor generating a standard definition video signal at least having a composite signal and a high definition component video signal; an outputting unit outputting the standard definition video signal or the high definition co... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090079870 | Signal processing device A first candidate selection portion 130 selects format candidates based on the horizontal synchronizing cycle and the vertical synchronizing cycle of an input video signal. A second candidate selection portion 140 selects formats having the tolerance range... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090051812 | SIGNAL ADJUSTER A signal adjuster is disclosed to include a first connector and a second connector respectively connected to a signal source and a video display device, a buffer for buffering a high frequency signal, a signal bandwidth detector connected to the buffer for detecting the... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090041015 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION AMONG MULTIPLE LINKS OF A NETWORK, AND NETWORK DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD A method for intelligently distributing packets of a data stream to multiple links of a network for simultaneous transmission via the multiple links, and for periodically re-allocating the distribution, achieves higher network throughput. The method has particular appli... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090028391 | MOTION DETECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF The invention discloses motion detecting method and apparatus thereof. The method and apparatus are utilized to detect a motion condition of a target pixel. The motion detecting method comprises the following steps: receiving a composite signal including a target frame ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090027554 | VIDEO APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING DIGITAL INTERFACE THEREOF A video apparatus and a method for recognizing a digital interface thereof are disclosed. The method for recognizing the digital interface of the video apparatus enables a multimedia source to re-execute a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) recognition to deal ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080303947 | Audio Processing Apparatus and Display Apparatus with Same An AV device comprises a processing section for carrying out a process for view and listening, a signal output section for outputting a signal to the processing section, first signal input sections including a mobile audio input terminal, a first detecting section for d... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080246874 | METHOD FOR DETECTING IMAGE SEQUENCES HAVING LINEWISE REPEATED DATA A method for detecting a video signal that represents an image sequence and exhibits linewise repeated video data comprises selecting a plurality of line groups each having a first, a second and a third line, which originate from two consecutive fields in the case of a ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080211965 | Automated inverse telecine conversion The present invention is generally directed to automated methods and systems for converting image streams having a first frame rate to a second frame rate without the need for user intervention. Embodiments of the present invention obviate the effects of processing of a... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080158422 | CIRCUIT, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING VIDEO SIGNAL TYPE FOR GENERATION BY A MEDIA PLAYER A circuit, method and system for determining which type of video signal is to be generated by a media player are described herein. In the described embodiment, the media player has three video ports for transferring different types of video signal with each type of vide... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080043142 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SAWTOOTH AND FIELD MOTION The present invention provides a video detecting device including a first pixel detector, a second pixel detector, and a determining unit. The first pixel detector compares the intensity of a target pixel of a target scan line in a first field with the intensity of firs... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080024665 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method In order to make it possible to precisely remove an adverse effect ascribable to degradation of compressed stream data in processing after the stream data has been decoded, a decoding portion obtains audio data by decoding an audio stream that is the compressed data, an... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080024664 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus has a display device displaying video, and causes the display device to display video by processing an input video signal inputted from an external apparatus. The video signal processing apparatus also has... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080018790 | Method and System for Detecting Digital QAM, VSB and Analog TV Signals System and methods for processing signals in a television system are disclosed and may include measuring relative power of RF carriers over a full bandwidth of one or more received TV channels. The method may also include determining based on the measured relative power... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070296862 | Television receiving apparatus A television receiving apparatus (1) of the invention includes a video signal-switching circuit (11), an input signal-detecting circuit (12), a control circuit (13), a video signal-processing circuit (14), a memory (15), and a d... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070263123 | METHOD FOR VIDEO MODE DETECTION A method for video mode detection, wherein video input data (VID) corresponding to a video picture (P) is received and a video mode is determined for said video picture (P). The determining of said video mode depends on a local video mode (LVM) and a global video mode (... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070242159 | Information processing apparatus and display control method An information processing apparatus including: a display that is capable of displaying moving image data in a full screen mode; a first signal processing section that generates a signal for forming the moving image data to be displayed on the display; a second signal pr... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070188658 | Graphic display device The invention provides at low cost a graphic display device which can display video with a video signal in a predetermined format and includes an external input portion capable of having a signal other than the video signal in the predetermined format inputted thereto, ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070132881 | Video apparatus and video processing method A video apparatus includes a processor for processing a video signal included in an input signal, a detector for detecting a vertical synchronizing interval of a synchronizing signal included in the input signal, a data saver for saving data for each vertical resolution... | 06/14/2007 |
