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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127368 | ANTI-BLUR APPARATUS FOR E.G. BACKLIGHT OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY A display control apparatus comprises a video source(105) which provides a video signal comprising frames. The video source (105) is coupled to a compensation processor (107) which filters at least part of a first frame to provide a compensation for... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110267538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALTERING IMAGES IN A VIDEO FILE USING PREDETERMINED PARAMETERS A system and method for altering images using predetermined parameters is provided, through the use of a record associated with a digital video file. The record contains a number of parameters about insertion opportunities, including the location, time span, and shape o... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110242418 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD In an image processing apparatus, a min-max pixel difference value computing unit computes the difference between the maximum and minimum pixel values in a first image portion including a target pixel and neighbor pixels. A maximum adjacent pixel difference value comput... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242417 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An image processing device includes an acquisition unit, a memory, a search unit, and a synthesis unit. The acquisition unit acquires a moving image including a plurality of images, and sets a pixel in a process image as a target pixel. The process image is to be proces... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110211119 | INTERMEDIATE FRAME OCCLUSION ESTIMATION SYSTEM USING PROJECTED VECTORS In one embodiment, a method is provided for performing motion compensated interpolation wherein, for any pixels in the interpolated frame to which there is neither a forward vector nor a backward vector projecting: including the pixel in an intermediate frame conceal ar... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211120 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus processes image data corresponding to a display image. The image processing apparatus includes M image processing sections which have a function of processing image data of M (where M is an integer equal to or greater than 2) images segment... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110176058 | USE OF FILM GRAIN TO MASK COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with processing video data are described. According to one embodiment, a device comprises a video processor for processing a digital video stream by at least identifying a facial boundary within images of the digital vi... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110080522 | USE OF METADATA IN VIDEO TO ESTABLISH TV SETTINGS Metadata defining TV video settings is embedded in or otherwise accompanies a video stream. The metadata is executed by the TV to establish the settings, which consequently may be optimized for the particular video stream.... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110051003 | VIDEO IMAGE MOTION PROCESSING METHOD INTRODUCING GLOBAL FEATURE CLASSIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION DEVICE THEREOF The invention involves the technology of video digital image processing. With respect to the problem of larger error existed in the existing video image motion processing method, a video image motion processing method introducing global feature classification is provide... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100329457 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A VIDEO OF A SCENE Method of displaying a video of a scene onto a display with enhanced image quality, the video of the scene having first subframes and second subframes wherein the first subframes correspond to a first region of an image-presentation element of the display and the second... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100302392 | PRESENTATION DEVICE A document presentation device 10 includes a video signal controller 50 adapted to output a video signal of a video image for display on a display unit 40; and a remote controller RC. The video signal controller 50 includes a video signal pro... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100253846 | IMAGE ACQUISITION AND DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD USING INFORMATION DERIVED FROM AN AREA OF INTEREST IN A VIDEO IMAGE IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZED BRIGHTNESS CONTROL AND USE OF METADATA Method and apparatus for preparing and displaying images uses image characteristics of an area of interest of images to optimize or otherwise determine image characteristics of the entire image to be displayed. The area of interest information may be used in computing a... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100208140 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a motion vector detection unit that determines a motion vector between a plurality of images obtained in time series, an image synthesis unit that obtains a synthesized image by correcting a positional deviation between the plurali... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100118198 | VIDEO QUALITY ADJUSTMENT SUPPORT UNIT, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT, AND VIDEO QUALITY ADJUSTMENT SUPPORT METHOD [PROBLEMS] To provide a video quality adjustment support unit capable of contributing to video quality improvement. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Correction data of a video signal corresponding to a type of content and to a viewing condition... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100114408 | MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGER The present invention provides methods and systems for adjusting video quality outputted by an aerial vehicle to manage the data stream bandwidth to match the needs of each mission segment. A mission segment is monitored in order to determine a preferred video quality o... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104261 | Brief and high-interest video summary generation A video is summarized by determining if a video contains one or more junk frames, modifying one or more boundaries of shots of the video based at least in part on the determination of if the video contains one or more junk frames, sampling a plurality of the shots of th... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100053441 | Video display device, video display method and system There is provided a video display device including a content control unit for displaying a video content on a display screen; a user specifying unit for specifying a user viewing a video content displayed on the display screen; and an image quality adjustment unit for a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100039561 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING LIGHT RADIATION A system that provides a more immersive viewing experience of an image sequence is provided. This is realized by extending the currently presented frame of the image sequence. The backlighting effect is used to display the extended part of the currently presented frame.... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100002145 | ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF A VIDEO SIGNAL A video signal includes a plurality of frames of image data. A single frame of image data or multiple frames of image data, one or more reduced resolution frames, or a portion or portions of one or more frames or reduced resolution frames can be analyzed to determine in... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090290063 | System and Method for Processing Videos and Images to a Determined Quality Level System and method for processing videos and images to a determined quality level. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for enhancing video. The method includes providing a first video element that is uncompressed. The method also includes ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090147141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO TELEPHONY IN MOBILE TERMINAL A method and apparatus for video telephony in a mobile terminal includes: extracting, after establishment of a video call, a facial feature from a video image captured by a camera unit of the mobile terminal, comparing the extracted facial feature with that of a pre-sto... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090049484 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE ALTERATION Methods and systems for image alteration. A video signal having a plurality of images may be accessed. An alteration request may be received from a user. A portion of the plurality of images of the video signal may be altered to blur the video signal. The blurred video ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20080239150 | Using a region restricted cleanup signal to bridge a signal level mismatch between a blue screen and an adjoining garbage matte A visible luminance step in a background scene, caused by a signal level mismatch between a matte signal level and a blue backing signal level, is significantly reduced by a soft edge transition region that raises the blue backing signal level up to the signal level of ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080225177 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING SOLID-STATE ELECTRONIC IMAGE SENSING DEVICE Signal charge is branched in either of two directions, namely to a first output circuit or to a second output circuit, by a branching portion at the left end of a horizontal transfer line. Imperfect transfer of signal charge occurs at the branching portion owing to the ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080002060 | Optimized Performance and Performance for Red-Eye Filter Method and Apparatus A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. A digital apparatus ha... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070097268 | Video background subtractor system A video processing system includes at least one video source, a region selecting unit, a subtracting unit and a display unit. The region-selecting unit selects the user-defined region of interest from the video source. The subtracting unit subtracts the required region,... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20060221239 | Method and device for processing video data for display on a display device The visible pattern of classical matrix dithering in case of applications with moving pictures and static pictures shall be suppressed more effectively. Therefore, it is proposed to change a dithering pattern in the dithering block non-periodically. This can be effected... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060221244 | Image-quality adjusting apparatus, image-quality adjusting method, and display apparatus An image-quality adjusting apparatus (1) adjusts image quality of a video image corresponding to a video signal by performing signal processing for the video signal. The image-quality adjusting apparatus (1) is provided with: a level detecting device (3... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060164552 | Embedding a panoramic image in a video stream Techniques are described for embedding a panoramic image in standard resolution. A panoramic image is received from a panoramic camera and a location of a speaker is determined, either automatically or manually. A portion of the panoramic image is cropped to isolate the... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060158558 | Integrated multimedia signal processing system using centralized processing of signals Integrated processing of multimedia signals can eliminate unnecessary signal processors and converters without losing the functionality of typical home entertainment system components. The integrated system includes a main player that captures and processes signals digi... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060139493 | Displaying apparatus and control method thereof The present invention relates to a displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying thereon an active image according to an image signal supplied from a predetermined signal source, comprising a capture setting unit for setting a predetermined capture area to b... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060055827 | Gray scale display device The gradation display device contains gradient detecting circuit (3) for detecting a gradient of gradation values of pixels in an incoming image; time-varying gradation-value detecting circuit (4) for detecting changes in gradation values of the pixels wit... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20050220358 | Method of generating blur The method comprises the following steps: partitioning of the 2D image into 2D zones as a function of the depths assigned to the pixels, a zone being defined by a minimum and maximum depth, calculation of blur of a 2D zone by convolution for the pixels on either side of... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050162558 | Multimedia authoring system A multimedia authoring system (100) includes a user interface (250) for receiving input from a user. A title generator (210) is used to generate a multimedia title under control of input of the user. A resource checker (220) includes a memory... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050151884 | Automatic zoom apparatus and method for playing dynamic images An automatic zoom apparatus and method for playing dynamic images. The automatic zoom apparatus provides more dynamic images to a user by detecting a dynamic change of image signals to zoom and display a predetermined area where the dynamic change is detected. To this e... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050114887 | Quality of video The present invention is directed towards methods, devices and a signal format for providing information for achieving better perceived image quality of a transmitted video data stream. A video and information transmitting unit (28) in a device (20) transm... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050058340 | Red-eye detection based on red region detection with eye confirmation Red-eye detection based on red region detection with eye confirmation initially identifies pixels that correspond to the color of red-eye within an image. A determination is then made as to whether these identified pixels and surrounding areas are part of an eye or not ... | 03/17/2005 |
