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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159607 | Video signal display system, video signal reproducing apparatus, and video signal display method A video signal display system includes: a reproducing apparatus including a decoder that decodes input video data to produce a video signal, an IP converter that, when the video signal produced by the decoder is an interlaced video signal, converts the interlaced vi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8134641 | Method and apparatus for processing video signal Methods and apparatuses for processing a video signal are provided, in which a video signal for an interlaced scanning mode is received that has a first field and a second field. Further, a determination is performed as to whether the first field and the second fiel... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8000997 | Method for setting image for standard operating speed, and method for finding evaluation value with image of evaluation subject data based on standard operating speed This invention relates to a method of establishing, by means of images, a standard working speed of working steps including a plurality of different motion elements, and a method whose object is that working same as said working steps is carried out by different wor... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995141 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying pictures on an interlaced display Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for displaying pictures on a display. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for outputting pictures. The method comprises receiving the plurality of fields for display in a particular order, where the... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7961251 | Method and apparatus for conversion of video formats to 120 Hz 4 to 1 interlaced formats A method for converting video data in a first video format to video data in a second interlaced video format comprising: determining a number of frames of the first video format to map into a frame of the second video format, the frame of the second video format hav... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7652721 | Video interlacing using object motion estimation One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each segment are determined though object motion estimation. Interpolated ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7573528 | Method and apparatus for displaying progressive material on an interlaced device A method and apparatus are provided for displaying progressive material on an interlaced display where the number of lines of the source frame is equal to or less than the number of lines in a display field, where such lines in the display field are derived from all... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7463306 | Processing interlaced and pseudo interlaced signals In an arrangement for processing video signals provided as interlaced video signals generated in the interlaced scanning mode, in which two fields constitute one frame, and/or as pseudo-interlaced video signals derived from non-interlaced video signals obtained by m... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7440030 | Method and apparatus for interlaced display of progressive video content A method is provided for displaying progressive video content on an interlaced display device. The method comprises vertically phase shifting video lines of the progressive video content to correctly position the video lines with respect to a video field of the inte... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417633 | Workstation for processing and producing a video signal A workstation for processing and producing a video signal comprises a video input system, a video graphics processor, and a video output system. The video input system may comprise a video input module, a first video pipeline, and a second video pipeline. The video ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408547 | Workstation for processing and producing a video signal A workstation for processing and producing a video signal comprises a video input system, a video graphics processor, and a video output system. The video input system may comprise a video input module, a first video pipeline, and a second video pipeline. The video ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7373650 | Apparatuses and methods to enable the simultaneous viewing of multiple television channels and electronic program guide content A Digital Home Communication Terminal (DHCT) including a plurality of tuners, each of which can select one of a plurality of transmission channels provided by a Digital Broadband Delivery System (DBDS). The multiple tuners enable the DHCT to tune to a plurality of d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369179 | 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 ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365757 | Method and apparatus for independent video and graphics scaling in a video graphics system A method and apparatus for independent video and graphics scaling in a video graphics system is accomplished by receiving a video data stream, wherein the video data stream includes video data in a first format. A graphics data stream is also received, and the graph... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362375 | Scanning conversion apparatus and method In the scanning conversion apparatus, a first converter converts input interlaced scan data into progressive scan data, and a second converter converting the progressive scan data output from the first converter to interlaced scan data. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362374 | Video interlacing using object motion estimation One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each segment are determined though object motion estimation. Interpolated ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359624 | Portable DVD player A portable DVD player includes a generally thin prismatic enclosure having a first major surface, a second major surface separated from the first major surface, and side surfaces connecting the first major surface to the second major surface. At least a portion of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349027 | Scan converter The scan converter comprises first and second memories 3, 7, a frame memory 5; having a write period and a read period, a video data input circuit 2 for writing data at a first transfer rate into the memory 3, a video data output circuit ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340682 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content cont... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336317 | Frame rate conversion device, overtaking prediction method for use in the same, display control device and video receiving display device An overtaking prediction method of, when input and output of data to and from a common memory are being performed with an input frame frequency and an output frame frequency made different from each other, predicting a frame in which overtaking occurs between the in... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324742 | Video-signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program Apparatus to suppress image deterioration in a data, broadcast thereby providing a display with quality, wherein a video signal separated from a reception signal by a demultiplexer is outputted to a converter section through an MPEG decoder section. When the video s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324158 | Video signal processing apparatus to generate both progressive and interlace video signals A video signal processing apparatus includes a main picture processor, an interlace recovering module and a video encoder. The main picture processor produces corresponding main picture signals based on video signals from a memory. The main picture signals are conve... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315373 | Wafer positioning method and device, wafer process system, and wafer seat rotation axis positioning method for wafer positioning device In wafer positioning by moving a center point (0) of a wafer (21) to a given position and orienting a notch part (21a) of the wafer in a given direction, wafer seat drive means (2,3,8, or 9) positions a rotation axis (B) of ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312832 | Sub-picture image decoder A sub-picture image decoder is disclosed, which essentially uses a sub-picture buffering unit to temporarily store at least one sub-picture data, an adjustment unit to store plural types of adjusting parameters, a control unit to compare the sub-picture data with th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301999 | Quantization method and system for video MPEG applications and computer program product therefor Digital signals are converted between a first and second format by a conversion process including generating coefficients representing the digital signals. The coefficients may be discrete cosine transform coefficient generated during encoding/transcoding of MPEG si... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280153 | 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 ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271817 | Aspect ratio conversion for imagers having random row access A method (400) of aspect ratio conversion for an imager (16) having random row access includes the steps of periodically receiving (402) a predetermined number of input video lines, vertical format converting (404) the predetermined numbe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268828 | Television receiver and control method thereof for displaying video signals based on different television modes A television receiver includes a switching portion which receives each of a video signal received and obtained by an antenna and a video signal read from a storage medium, and selectively outputs one of the video signals in response to an instruction signal for outp... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268830 | Video display appliance having function of varying screen ratio and control method thereof Disclosed are a video display appliance having a function of varying a screen ratio of a main picture to a sub-picture depending upon a position of a user when a twin picture function is provided, and a control method thereof. The video display appliance includes a ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269342 | Video signal reproducing device The image signal reproduction apparatus for reproducing a main image signal including either a first type of image signal obtained by converting a film material image into an electrical signal or a second type of image signal including a video signal as a material t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262806 | System and method for aligned compression of interlaced video A method and system are disclosed for vertically phase shifting fields of at least one interlaced frame of video into at least two vertically aligned frames of video. The at least two vertically aligned frames of video are compressed, transmitted or stored, decompre... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262807 | Signal processing device for providing multiple output images in one pass Signal processing device for providing multiple output images by processing input images of an interlaced video signal, comprising a temporal interpolater circuit (18) and a memory buffer (26, 27) connected to the temporal interpolater circuit. The mem... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248784 | Signal conversion apparatus and method When an input signal is signal-converted and is output, the copyright of a signal to be signal-converted is reliably protected. In an additional information detection/determination section, digital watermark information, CGMS information, etc., which are superposed ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239353 | Image format conversion apparatus and method An image format conversion apparatus including a 3:2 pull-down detection part determining whether a current field out of plural fields continuous in time is an image of a 3:2 pull-down format produced by a 3:2 pull-down process; a scroll text/graphic data detection ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236207 | System and method of transmission and reception of progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display Systems and methods of coding progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display are provided. Some systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems and methods. Film material may be encoded as video mate... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236204 | System and method for rendering graphics and video on a display A method for properly rendering various types of graphical and video content is disclosed comprising: determining whether a display on which the content is to be displayed is a progressive or an interlaced display; for a progressive display, de-interlacing any inter... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236206 | Interpolation method for a video signal, and display device with function of interpolation for a video signal A video signal interpolation can adapt an image of input video signal to voluntary aspect ratios widely. The invention also allows a display device to uniformly line-sequential scan and uses at least two line-memories (LM1, LM2) which are applied with ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233362 | Method for transforming one video output format into another video output format without degrading display quality A method of transforming output formats of video data without degrading display quality. Video data include a plurality of first display data corresponding to a plurality of first odd fields and a plurality of second display data corresponding to a plurality of firs... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227584 | Video signal processing system A video signal processing system for processing a video data VIN and graphic data DμP includes a filter unit, which receives the video data VIN. The filter unit filters the video data VIN to convert the video data VI... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227541 | Image display apparatus and method of determining characteristic of conversion circuitry of an image display apparatus An image display apparatus has an image display including scanning lines, modulation lines and display devices driven through the scanning lines and modulation lines, a scanning circuit for supplying a scanning signal to the scanning line, a modulating circuit for s... | 06/05/2007 |
