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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120026367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING MAXIMUM INPUT RATE WHILE UP-SCALING AN IMAGE VERTICALLY An example embodiment provides a resizer in an image processing system. The resizer includes a receiving module that receives pixel data representative of an image. A triple line buffer is coupled to the receiving module that stores the pixel data in response to a write... | 02/02/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110304772 | SCREEN ZOOM FEATURE FOR CABLE SYSTEM SUBSCRIBERS A screen zoom service provides the ability for a cable system subscriber to request a service which the cable service provider modifies a video data stream so as to replace a portion of the image with a zoomed image. The system uses a zoom level to indicate the level of... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298982 | DE-ROTATION ADAPTOR AND METHOD FOR ENABLING INTERFACE OF HANDHELD MULTI-MEDIA DEVICE WITH EXTERNAL DISPLAY Methods, systems and circuit elements that enable improved interface between a source electronic devices that generate rotatable image frames and an external sink device. In particular, aspects of the invention enable image de-rotation and/or improved speed in horizonta... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110234910 | Resolution changing device, resolution changing method, and resolution changing program A resolution changing device acquires resolution information on a display device, enlarges a received video image by using a predetermined enlargement rate, and displays, on a screen, an area of the enlarged video image that meets a predetermined display resolution. The... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216243 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING FRAME IMAGE DATA FROM VIDEO DATA AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about field of view associated with a plurality of video data, and an extraction unit configured to extract, from video data with a wide field of view which includes an area ind... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211122 | RESAMPLING AND PICTURE RESIZING OPERATIONS FOR MULTI-RESOLUTION VIDEO CODING AND DECODING Techniques and tools for high accuracy position calculation for picture resizing in applications such as spatially-scalable video coding and decoding are described. In one aspect, resampling of a video picture is performed according to a resampling scale factor. The res... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205437 | METHOD OF ZOOMING IN ON AN IMAGE AND A METHOD OF USING A GUI The present invention is directed to a method of zooming in on an image. An object is firstly detected, followed by capturing an image and recording the location and size of the object. The captured image is displayed on a screen with the detected object marked. A parti... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110181783 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD A video processing apparatus includes: a reception module configured to selectively receive signals; a signal processing module configured to perform signal processing on a signal received by the reception module; a video processor configured to process the signal perfo... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20100321578 | Scaling Process System, Video Output Apparatus and Replay Apparatus Disclosed is a scaling process system including a replay apparatus and a video output apparatus which are connected via a HDMI, wherein each of the video output apparatus and the replay apparatus respectively comprises a between-pixel interpolation method table, wherein... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315556 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF An image processing circuit and a method thereof are provided herein. The image processing circuit has a first scaling circuit, a plurality of line buffers, a first sharpness circuit, a second scaling circuit, and a second sharpness circuit. The first scaling circuit en... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100259683 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Vector Video Retargeting In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method for vector video frame retargeting comprises identifying one or more objects within a vector video frame, determining one or more importance values for the one or more identified objects and ret... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100253836 | Display method, display controller and display terminal A display method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: when a video layer needs to scale a video image, judging whether a preset policy is met; if so, using the offline mode; otherwise using the online mode; processing the video image in online mode or offli... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100214484 | Methods And Systems For Image Processing Variable video stream delivery tools include methods and systems that detect activation of a zoom command during presentation of a first stream of data to a multimedia device and that supplants a second stream of data having a higher resolution for a zoomed image plane ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211986 | Reception Apparatus, Reception Method, Program, and Communication System Provided is a reception apparatus receiving reception data including at least image data representing a predetermined image and graphic data representing a first graphic that is enlarged by a predetermined enlargement factor to be synthesized with the predetermined imag... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100201789 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DIGITAL ZOOM CORRECTION METHOD A digital zoom rate of two-dimensional images zoomed by a digital zoom unit is obtained. When the obtained digital zoom rate is larger than 100%, at least one of the digitally zoomed two-dimensional images is modified based on an enlarged amount of parallax to provide a... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100201879 | Customizable Picture-in-Picture In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provide systems and methods for customizing picture-in-picture video images on a television. Specifically, in one embodiment, a television receiver for depicting multiple images on a single display is de... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100165204 | System and process for image rescaling using adaptive interpolation kernel with sharpness and overshoot control Provided are a digital video rescaling system, a method of rescaling video images, and a chip comprising a computer executable medium embedded therein computer executable instructions for rescaling video images.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100128181 | Seam Based Scaling of Video Content Methods and systems are provided for processing video data. In an embodiment, a method of scaling video data includes scaling one frame based on at least one seam of pixels of the one frame. The seam of pixels is selected based at least on information derived from at le... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100118201 | SOUND ZOOMING APPARATUS AND METHOD SYNCHRONIZED WITH MOVING PICTURE ZOOMING FUNCTION A sound zooming technique synchronized with a moving picture zooming function is disclosed. A signal to control ambient noise and a signal to control a long distance sound are extracted from an audio signal input through a plurality of microphones. A front directivity-e... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118184 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS The image display apparatus is capable of receiving a first video signal and image data. The apparatus includes a first electronic zoom processing part performing first electronic zoom processing on the first video signal to output a first electronic zoom processed vide... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118202 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD A display control apparatus that can display a video includes an inputting unit configured to input the video, a designation unit configured to designate an area in the video, a detection unit configured to detect that a coordinate in the designated area of the video ha... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100110298 | VIDEO TRANSMISSION CONSIDERING A REGION OF INTEREST IN THE IMAGE DATA To enable efficient use of limited bandwidth in transmitting video, a region of interest is determined in each image. Before coding, the image is spatially scaled, with magnification applied inside that a region of interest. The scaled images are then compression encode... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103280 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging portion that obtains an imaging video signal; an enlargement processing portion that extracts a partial range from a picture frame range of the imaging video signal and applies video enlargement processing; a first detection por... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100077431 | User Interface having Zoom Functionality A user interface having zoom functionality is described. In an implementation, a user interface is displayed having representations of a plurality of content. Each of the representations is formed using a respective picture-in-picture stream of respective content. When ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100073556 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS The present invention relates to a video signal processing method and a video signal processing apparatus. The video signal processing apparatus receives a picture datum, which includes M×N pixel data, wherein a scan orientation of the pixel data includes M pixel data.... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100066909 | Video Processing Apparatus and Video Processing Method According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a tuning module configured to tune a broadcast signal among input broadcast signals, a first video processing module configured to composite the video signal included in the tuned broadcast signal and a ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100053442 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD A video processing apparatus includes: a reception module configured to selectively receive signals; a signal processing module configured to perform signal processing on a signal received by the reception module; a video processor configured to process the signal perfo... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100053443 | Video Display Apparatus, Video Display System and Video Display Method A video display apparatus includes a tuner unit that receives a video signal from a broadcasting station, a first video region cutout unit that cuts out video of a predetermined region set in advance from video received by the tuner unit as a window A and performs scali... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100020240 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS The present invention relates to a technology of appropriately improving image resolution. According to an image signal processing method of the present invention, an input video signal contains an image signal whose pixel size is converted at a specified magnification ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100013999 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a first conversion module configured to execute up-conversion processing on a section of video data, a display module configure to enlarge a moving image of the section of the video data subjected to the... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100002146 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device pr... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090322945 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER When display according scheduled program viewing is provided on multi-screen-display, a user may not even notice the display. First, upon the start of processing for display according to scheduled program viewing, which has been set in advance (for example, two minutes ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090303388 | PICTURE DISPLAY DEVICE A picture display device for displaying a picture includes a setting unit, which enables a setting of a function related to the picture display device, such as a function for adjusting the size of a picture, to be changed. The setting unit determines whether or not to i... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090290646 | VIDEO SYSTEM AND SCALER A video system includes a decoder and a scaler. The decoder tracks a video signal, generates a synchronization signal and a frequency offset signal, decodes the video signal, and outputs a decoded signal in accordance with the synchronization signal. The scaler generate... | 11/26/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090284594 | Display control device, display system, and television set A display control device includes: a signal supply unit that supplies an image signal to a display device; and a magnification change control unit that processes the image signal so as to change a magnification of a replay image according to a distance between a person ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090285306 | Scalable Video Coding Method A method of scalable video coding in which the video signal is processed and coded at various layers of spatial resolution where between each pair of spatial layers a prediction mechanism is enabled which allows a comparison at homologous layers of spatial resolution wi... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090278861 | Displaying still and moving images of a constant size or images that occupy a specified percentage of a screen across different size display screens Advertisers specify the size of an ad in pixels or in physical units such as inches or millimeters. The physical square area of an ad specified in pixels will change as the physical size of the television screen or computer display screen varies. The number of pixels of... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090273708 | Displaying Data on Lower Resolution Displays Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display. The conversion may be done in a way that preserves the inte... | 11/05/2009 |
