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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179404 | Remote control system and appliance for use in the remote control system An appliance according to the present invention is operative under instructions from a plurality of control units, which includes a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit outputs a first control signal to the appliance to instruct the a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164601 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159507 | Display device, display method, information recording medium and program In a display device (301), in order to improve the visibility by changing a size for displaying character or patterns on a display screen in accordance with a distance from a user viewing the display screen, a text-containing image generating unit (305... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149248 | Method and apparatus for displaying map using non-linear compression A map displaying method and apparatus to display a map on a screen, the map displaying method including: establishing a first area on the map that is not compressed based on a current location of an object on the map; non-linearly compressing a second area adjacent ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144170 | Apparatus for scaling image and line buffer thereof An apparatus for outputting an image by scaling an original image to a different size is disclosed. The apparatus includes an interpolator and at least one line buffer. The interpolator generates lines of the output image, at least one of which is derived by interpo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144171 | Scale-dependent rendering of natural media styles A method for generating a scale-dependent rendering of natural media styles in a vector-based graphics application is disclosed. A vector-based graphics drawing may be resized such that certain scale-dependent parameters are scaled proportionately, while other scale... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134578 | Hybrid importance maps for content aware digital image resizing What is disclosed is a novel system and method for content-aware resizing of a digital image. To take advantage of the characteristics of various importance maps generated for the image using different operators such as, for example, gradient, entropy, probabilistic... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130245 | System and method for processing map images A system of processing map images includes a Web Mapping Service (WMS) for storing map images. A WMS proxy is operative with the WMS and receives from a client a request for a map image for display at the client. A WMS proxy includes a tile broker module that conver... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111268 | Image scaling method and apparatus A method and apparatus for down scaling image data is disclosed. One method controls a phase for an M/N filter, where N represents a number of input samples, and M represents a number of output samples. N is greater than M. Another method may switch between an M/N f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106926 | Controlling a display device to display portions of an entire image in a display area A computer-implemented method is for controlling display of an image, in a display area, by a display device. A plurality of elements of a sequence is determined based on operation of an input device. A position in the entire image is determined, associated with the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085280 | Asymmetric two-pass graphics scaling A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale fac... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8072472 | System and method for scaling overlay images A system and method for scaling a composite overlay image, wherein the composite overlay image comprises a plurality of pixels and each pixel comprises at least one color channel and at least one alpha channel, and further wherein at least one pixel of the composite... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068122 | Method of image scaling A method of image scaling includes the steps of: determining the coordinates of a virtual pixel in an original image, wherein the virtual pixel corresponds to an actual pixel in a scaled image; determining the coordinates of four actual pixels in the original image ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054320 | Horizontal strip column-first two-dimensional scaling A system is provided for scaling image data comprising a Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine adapted to read the image data from a horizontal pixel strip in a column-by-column format, a scaling block adapted to scale the image data read by the read DMA engine into sca... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032004 | Multimedia presentation format A format for accessing content such as a full-length move from an optical disc uses an XML description file stored on the disc to generate one or more screens that a user employs to access the content. The decoding requirements of a hardware or software player are r... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026933 | Visualization system(s) and method(s) for preserving or augmenting resolution and data associated with zooming or paning in an industrial automation environment A visualization system that preserves, augments or increases resolution of images within an industrial automation environment is provided. A reference component identifies, determines, or maps level of zooming or panning in connection with an image within an industr... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018474 | Method for requesting and viewing an attachment image on a portable electronic device A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018473 | Method and system for zoomable attachment handling on a portable electronic device A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013874 | Digital image albums To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009179 | Content browsing system, content browsing method, and computer program product A content browsing system changes a display state of a content that includes an object or the object according to zoom operation of a user, and includes an evaluation information storage unit and a display controlling unit. The evaluation information storage unit st... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004542 | Video composition apparatus, video composition method and video composition program Example video composition systems and methods involve scaling each of multiple input video images with scaling factors to generate a plurality of scaled input video images each corresponding to one of the input video images. The scaled input video images are written... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004543 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit which displays an image on a screen based on an input image signal; a scaler which scales the image signal to control a size of the image displayed on the screen; and a controller which controls the scaler to ch... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995078 | Compound lenses for multi-source data presentation A method in a computer system for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, the original image having one or more images relating to the region-of-interest, the method comprising: establishing a lens for ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995079 | Automatic map zoom-level adaptation A method is provided for dynamically determining a zoom-level to display to a user of a mapping application executing on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps. The zoom-level is determined in accordance with at least one predefined parameter. The... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990400 | Method for displaying images on display screen Method, apparatus and program product for efficient display of an image at a targeted position in an image on a display screen by displaying, on the display screen, an image on which the targeted position is not displayed; setting a first position specified on the i... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982752 | Multi-format image display apparatus and method An image display apparatus and method are disclosed. In the present invention, image frames of various data information sizes are displayed with a selected output data information size. If the selected output data information size is below a limit of a storage mediu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7961202 | Method and apparatus for maintaining a visual appearance of at least one window when a resolution of the screen changes A method and apparatus for maintaining a visual appearance of at least one window displayed on a screen after a change in a resolution of the screen includes a first step of receiving a display change notice indicative that the resolution of the screen is to be chan... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952596 | Electronic devices that pan/zoom displayed sub-area within video frames in response to movement therein An electronic device can include a display and a controller. The controller identifies a location within a displayable area of video frames which has movement, and controls panning/zooming of a sub-area within the video frames that is displayed on the display in res... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944455 | Controlling a display device to display portions of an entire image in a display area A computer-implemented method is for controlling display of an image, in a display area, by a display device. A plurality of elements of a sequence is determined based on operation of an input device. A position in the entire image is determined, associated with the... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944456 | Content optimization for receiving terminals The invention discloses a method, server and a computer program for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices. In the solution disclosed in the invention, a user is able to create exact layouts and optimize the amount of content to different medi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7932914 | Storing high dynamic range data in a low dynamic range format Systems and methods for storing high dynamic range image data in a low dynamic range format may be used to store the high dynamic range image data in less memory. The memory bandwidth needed to access the high dynamic range data is reduced and processing performance... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924297 | Display control apparatus and display control method An image control apparatus includes a signal-receiving unit to which image signals are input, a resolution detecting unit configured to detect the resolution of the input image signals, a viewing-distance detecting unit configured to detect a viewing distance betwee... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920150 | Image scaling system capable of saving memory An image scaling system includes a window memory, a longitudinal scaler, a buffer and a latitudinal scaler. The window memory temporarily stores partial data of N image lines. The longitudinal scaler performs a longitudinal scaling operation on the partial data of t... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920151 | Graphics display system with video scaler A video processing device may comprise one or more processors and/or circuits for use in a video processing device, in which the one or more processors and/or circuits may comprise a video scaler, a memory, a scaler engine, a clock selection circuit. The one or more... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916157 | System and methods for selective zoom response behavior A system and method for defining the zoom response, or behavior, of a display object independently of other display objects performs a selective zoom response to a zoom level. Selective zoom response provides each display object individual zoom response logic to det... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907153 | Content providing method, a program of content providing method, a recording medium on which a program of a content providing method is recorded, and a content providing apparatus A content providing method, a program of a content providing method, a recording medium on which a program of a content providing method is recorded, and a content providing apparatus are provided. The content providing method includes the steps of: outputting movin... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7898554 | Asymmetric two-pass graphics scaling A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale fac... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889212 | Magnifying visual information using a center-based loupe A method and apparatus for magnifying selected portions of visual information on a screen is provided. In response to receiving first user input, displaying, within a first bounded region that encloses a first portion of visual information, (a) the first portion at ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876336 | Scale-dependent rendering of natural media styles A method for generating a scale-dependent rendering of natural media styles in a vector-based graphics application is disclosed. A vector-based graphics drawing may be resized such that certain scale-dependent parameters are scaled proportionately, while other scale... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876337 | Display processing method and display processing apparatus According to the present invention, when video resolution is changed, the TV receiver selects resolution having a priority to the graphics resolution requested by the application depending on the application types, or the TV receiver selects graphics resolution appr... | 01/25/2011 |
