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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120013806 | ELECTRONIC BILLBOARD An electronic billboard includes a display unit, a storage unit, a distance detection unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a relationship table recording a relation between viewer distances and zoom proportions of displayed content by the display unit. T... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110242345 | Method and apparatus for providing picture privacy in video The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing picture privacy in video. The method includes separating, by the processor, pixels of a first type from pixels of a second type in a current gray-scale frame based on a decision threshold, where each ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110211121 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus including a speaker and a control method thereof which controls the speaker to output a sound wave adjusted according to an installation condition of the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a signal processor which processes an image si... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110102674 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY OF AN AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT TO A VIEWER ATTENTION LEVEL To allow viewer to adapt audiovisual content to their attention level, the audiovisual signal processing arrangement (104, 106), comprising an audiovisual signal processing unit (104) arranged to receive from a control unit (106) at least one comple... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096225 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALTERING THE PRESENTATION OF BROADCAST CONTENT A method and system for altering a presentation of broadcast content is disclosed. Embodiments provide an accurate and efficient mechanism for suppressing advertisements by using downloaded templates to identify advertisements before suppression for a duration indicated... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING ADAPTIVE MOTION EFFECT USING SCHEMA STRUCTURE INDICATING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH PERFORMANCE OF MOTION DEVICE Provided is an apparatus for reproducing an adaptive motion effect, including: a media processing module to separate, from multimedia content comprising information associated with a motion effect applied to each scene of content, information associated with the motion ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110043701 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME A video processing apparatus determines whether a video signal of a predetermined resolution is a pseudo-resolution video signal generated from a video signal of resolution lower than the predetermined resolution. The video processing apparatus generates a first frequen... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043689 | FIELD-OF-VIEW CHANGE DETECTION Techniques are disclosed for detecting a field-of-view change for a video feed. These techniques differentiate between a new or changed scene and a temporary variation in the scene to accurately detect field-of-view changes for the video feed. A field-of-view change is ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038535 | FOREGROUND IMAGE SEPARATION METHOD A foreground image separation method is disclosed to separate dynamic foreground and static background in a sequence of input images which have been processed either with automatic white balance or brightness control by the camera. First, an input image is received from... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110007219 | Object-Based Audio-Visual Terminal And Bitstream Structure As information to be processed at an object-based video or audio-visual (AV) terminal, an object-oriented bitstream includes objects, composition information, and scene demarcation information. Such bitstream structure allows on-line editing, e.g. cut and paste, inserti... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328535 | VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS Brightness expression without solid white pattern is enabled, and video expression with an improved black level is achieved. A distortion module (5) reduces the luminance of a backlight source according to the histogram of the video signal so that the contrast ma... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100238324 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus for displaying a live view image obtained by implementing special effect processing on an image data on a monitor comprises an image processing unit that implements a plurality of types of special effect processing on the image data to gene... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100214483 | Displaying An Image With An Available Effect Applied A method for automatically displaying an image with an available effect applied on a digital display device includes analyzing the image stored on a storage device and choosing the available effect to apply to the image, where analyzing the image includes executing an i... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100194988 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Highlight Detection A method and apparatus for highlight detection. The method includes retrieving audio and video data, detecting a high audio energy scene of the retrieved audio data, detecting a key-line scene relevant to the high audio scene of the retrieved video data, detecting an in... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100182508 | AUXILIARY BUS TRANSITIONS ON A VIDEO SWITCHER A mix-effects bank architecture of a video switcher having a plurality of video processing units; and an internal switcher routing matrix. The internal switcher routing matrix routing, a video source currently providing a video feed to an auxiliary output and a desired ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100182501 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM The information processing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a moving picture analysis unit for analyzing moving picture data including a plurality of images and audios associated with time information and for generating moving picture metada... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100165112 | AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SECONDARY VIDEO STREAMS The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more second... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100141843 | PROMOTIONAL LABELLING OF A TELEVISION APPARATUS For the purpose of promotional labelling, a television apparatus modifies the video signal supplied to the display device to superimpose promotional graphics that indicate technical information about the television apparatus onto the video image that is displayed. This ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100134687 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SIGNALS AT A BOWLING ALLEY OR THE LIKE In a process and apparatus for managing signals to be broadcast at a bowling alley or the like a video signal comprising an image captured at the bowling alley is displayed at the bowling lane.... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100123823 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof preventing boring and a trouble misunderstanding due to a mute screen supplied in changing an image signal, the display apparatus, including: a display unit which displays an image; an image processing unit ... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100118200 | Signage According to some embodiments, a digital signage system plays content. According to some embodiments, content may vary based on various circumstances.... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118199 | Video/Audio Processor and Video/Audio Processing Method A video/audio processor includes: a position calculation unit configured to calculate from a video signal a position of a speaking person in a screen; and an adjustment section configured to adjust a signal level of a specific frequency of an audio signal inputted to a ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100097526 | BANANA CODEC A method and system for stitching two or more images to generate a resultant image of good quality is disclosed. The disclosed method and system represents a way to stitch two or more images captured through fisheye lenses. The method and system converts two fisheye hem... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100091193 | AMBILIGHT DISPLAYING ARRANGEMENT Disclosed are embodiments of AmbiLight TV, a lighting or illumination system that has been introduced to enhance viewing experience. The system comprises one or two U-shaped light guides, the legs of which spatially correspond to three or four sides of the display scree... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100073568 | Field Sequential Color Encoding For Displays The optical performance is enhanced of display systems that use field sequential color and pulse width modulation to generate color and color gray scale values. Such enhancement may be achieved by various data encoding methods disclosed herein that may include temporal ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070994 | Emergency alert signaling method and digital cable broadcast system A digital cable broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver, a broadcast transmitter, and an alternative data receiver. The broadcast transmitter transmits a new emergency alert message associated with an emergency alert event if the broadcast receiver is not plugged... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100007773 | Video Processing and Telepresence System and Method A codec having a video input for receiving a continuous video stream, an encoder for encoding the continuous video stream to result in an encoded video stream, a video output for transmitting the encoded video stream, and switching means for switching the encoder during... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100007791 | TELEVISION DISPLAY EDITOR A system is disclosed that enhances television viewing by providing users the ability to selectively blank a portion of their screen. Broadcasters today often dedicate some percentage of display “real estate” to push additional content (e.g., scores from other games... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090279053 | Apparatus for Continuously Projecting Images and Method therefor A method for continuously projecting images by enabling an apparatus including a light source, an image creation unit, and a projection unit includes receiving video signals from a predetermined source; creating a plurality of images from the video signals while being i... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090273715 | Method And Apparatus For Displaying An Image With A Production Switcher A video production switcher comprises a number of mix effects (M/E) units and a controller. The latter comprises a control layer that controls the M/Es to provide video outputs through projection devices that give the appearance of displaying one unified pixel space can... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090180025 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVERLAYING GRAPHICS ON VIDEO Information received on a side channel from a TV content source is placed in a graphics plane of a TV and overlaid onto a video plane of the TV, which contains content from a main channel. The graphics plane content in each side channel may be keyed to content ratings s... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20080231751 | SCHEME FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATIONS AND TIMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS AND OTHER INSERTIONS IN MEDIA A method for use with content includes analyzing a sequence of frames of the content, determining whether an area exists in a scene depicted by the sequence of frames where additional content such as advertising can be inserted without obstructing activity in the scene,... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080124041 | Adding video effects for video enabled applications A streaming video interface component receives video frames from a streaming driver before the frames are received by a consuming application. The streaming video interface component provides the video frames to a video effect rendering component which renders video eff... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080088743 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY FOR REDUCING ERROR IN VIDEO CODING A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and circuit assembly are provided for allocating one or more redundant pictures by taking into consideration the information content of the primary pictures, with which the redundant pictures would be associa... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080018792 | Systems and Methods for Interactive Surround Visual Field A surround visual field framework or system and methods are presented. In an embodiment, a surround visual field system comprises a control signal extractor that obtains a control signal that is related to the input stream. The control signal is provided to a coupling r... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070182864 | Broadcast control A broadcast control apparatus for visual data includes a touch screen (32, 34) display panel operable to receive and display visual data simultaneously in real time from a plurality of visual sources. It also includes a touch screen graphical panel for the retrie... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070126932 | Systems and methods for utilizing idle display area A surround visual field that has a characteristic or characteristics which relate to an audio/visual presentation is described. In one embodiment, the surround visual field is displayed in an area partially surrounding or surrounding the video content being displayed. T... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070126938 | Immersive surround visual fields A surround visual field that has a characteristic or characteristics that relate to an audio/visual presentation is described. In one embodiment, the surround visual field is projected on an area partially surrounding or surrounding video content being displayed on a de... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20060271947 | Creating fingerprints A method and system for the determination of new video segments is presented in which candidate sequences are recognized and stored, and analysis is performed on fingerprints of segments of the candidate sequences to isolate repeating video sequences, without prior know... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060209213 | Using an electronic paper-based screen to improve contrast The invention relates to a projection video system, which comprises a control system for receiving an input video stream. In order to improve the visibility of a projected image so that the projection video system can be satisfactorily used in illuminated rooms, the con... | 09/21/2006 |
