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| 8130317 | Method and system for performing interleaved to planar transformation operations in a mobile terminal having a video display Methods and systems for performing interleaved to planar transformation operations in a mobile terminal having a video display are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include extracting similar color space components from a received block of interleaved YUV color s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8072541 | Image processing apparatus and method for format conversion A signal processing apparatus converts interlaced 4:2:2-format video signals including a luminance component and two chroma components into interlaced 4:2:0 format video signals. A downsampling low-pass filter has such a group delay that a modulo-1 remainder of the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068173 | Color difference signal format conversion device and method According to one embodiment, an IP converter converts an interlaced color difference signal, in which the number of pixels in a vertical direction of a color difference signal is half that of a luminance signal, into a progressive color difference signal. A diagonal... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8031267 | Motion adaptive upsampling of chroma video signals Upsampling for video signals is described. In particular chroma pixels may be upsampled in a luminance, chrominance signal using motion adaptive approaches. In one example, the operations include selecting an absent chroma pixel of the current frame, developing a sp... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7724305 | Video data conversion method and system for multiple receivers Methods for video data conversion, performed by a converter, are provided. An embodiment of the video data conversion method comprises the following steps. Chroma data of a target line is acquired from a first portion of a video stream in a transmission format. Chro... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7697064 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method To provide a video signal processing apparatus capable of generating video signals that enable displaying and recording of a high-quality picture. A video signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a decoder decoding an ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697065 | Pixel conversion device and pixel conversion method According to one embodiment, an embodiment of a pixel conversion device of the invention improves outlines of edge peripheries of characters, etc., of a color digital image signal. The device includes a histogram extraction module, a picture characteristic extractio... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7679676 | Spatial signal conversion A spatial filter unit (200) for converting a first input signal (U) comprising input samples, into an output signal comprising output samples, is disclosed. The spatial filter unit (200) comprises: a coefficient-determining means (106) for deter... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7671922 | Chroma upsampling method and apparatus therefor A unique method for chroma vertical upsampling used, for example, for conversion of the “4:2:0” format chroma information used in many applications of digital video, to the “4:2:2” or “4:4:4” format, is presented. This conversion is required so that vide... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7583318 | Apparatus and method for controlling hue and luminance in image display device An apparatus for converting input image signals into image signals that can be displayed in an image display device. The image display device includes a color space converter converting color components of the input image signals and color components that can be dis... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7474355 | Chroma upsampling method and apparatus therefor A unique method for chroma vertical upsampling used, for example, for conversion of the “4:2:0” format chroma information used in many applications of digital video, to the “4:2:2” or “4:4:4” format, is presented. This conversion is required so that vide... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7375760 | Content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate convert... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7327873 | Fast software rotation of video for portrait mode displays In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises loading a processor with data from a source buffer, the data representing pixels from a first color space, and the pixels being ordered for display in a first orientation, transforming the data into data ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321402 | Apparatus and method for component video signal conversion Apparatus and method for converting a Y-Pb-Pr component video signal to a R-G-B component video signal. A luminance component video (Y) signal and a red color difference component video (Pr) signal are decoded to produce a red component video (R) signal. The Y signa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7292164 | Enhanced data converters using compression and decompression An enhancement that reduces the digital interface rate of analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) converters through the use of compression and decompression is described. Improved A/D converters compressing a sampled version of an A/D converter's analog... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289170 | Method and apparatus for compensating for interlaced-scan type video signal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for compensating for an interlaced-scan type video signal for stably displaying the video signal in the LCD panel. An aft part of 264th data of a first field and a fore part of 23rd data of a second field... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280688 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7228154 | Method and system for processing wireless digital multimedia A transmit digital processing system for wireless transmission of HDMI and/or DVI data using an FPGA. The FPGA converts the data into two data streams and includes a front end component multiplexing video data with control data. A complementary receive FPGA is also ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215381 | Image display device in digital TV Disclosed is an image display device in a digital TV that is capable of carrying out the conversion into various kinds of resolution by using single bit map data in the digital TV. The image display device includes: a data processing part for executing bit map conve... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206025 | Device and method for converting format in digital TV receiver Device and method for converting a format of a video signal in a digital TV receiver is provided. Format conversion can be carried out at one chip of a format converting device, inclusive of conversion of resolution, frame rate, scanning method, aspect ratio, color ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193656 | Line address computer for providing coefficients to a chroma filter Presented herein is a line address computer for providing chroma coefficients to a chroma filter. At each horizontal synchronization pulse, the line address computer provides a set of interpolation weights to a chroma filter. The chroma filter uses the provided set ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184094 | Decoding system, video color converter and method thereof A decoding system, a RGB video color converter and a method for color conversion of at least part of a decoded currently received YUV frame representing an image is provided. The currently received YUV frame includes image blocks and RGB color conversion is performe... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7161635 | Video signal processing A method of de-interlacing a video signal by conducting three linear filtering operations on the input to produce three filtered signals, each linear filtering operation comprising the taking of a weighted sum of pixels; and multiplying together the three filtered s... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154557 | Joint pre-/post-processing approach for chrominance mis-alignment This invention corrects chrominance misalignment that occurs during chrominance down-sampling and up-sampling. The invention extracts a binary index from the corresponding luminance signal. The binary index enables generation of a filter window. On down-sampling the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7136417 | Chroma conversion optimization A system for processing color information in a video signal is provided. The system includes a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to receive a compressed video stream that includes a frame picture having chroma samples and luma samples, whe... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133547 | Method for quantitative video-microscopy and associated system and computer software program product A method of determining an amount of at least one molecular species in a sample from an image of the sample captured by an image acquisition device is provided, each molecular species being indicated by a dye. A dye space representation of a plurality of dyes is for... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7113226 | Method for generating a representation of a particular signal among a plurality of signals representing lines in a display A method for generating a representation of a particular signal among video signals representing a display, the signals including a first component having a first bandwidth and a second component having a smaller second bandwidth, includes the steps of: (a) measurin... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113223 | High resolution color conforming A method, system and computer program product for color conforming video material at a given resolution is provided. The given video material is first converted to a lower resolution version of the same material. Then a color corrected version of the lower resolutio... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110031 | State image pickup apparatus having pixel shift layout A color shooting solid state image pickup apparatus is composed by using a solid state image pickup device having a number of color pixels disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout with distributing at least one color-type color pixels in a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111019 | Data warehouse system and query processing method used in the system, and data collecting method and apparatus for the method, and charging method and apparatus in the system In order to realize a practical data warehouse system with the use of a network in a distributed environment, for example, data collectors (101 and 102) for creating/managing each replica of server data for clients (103 and 104) as shown ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098958 | Method and apparatus for motion adaptive deinterlacing An adaptive filter calculates a target pixel from an interlaced video signal. The video signal comprises a plurality of frames, each of which comprises an even and an odd field. The filter comprises a quantized motion calculator and a filter selector. The quantized ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084925 | Method and device for processing image data from non-interlacing type into interlacing one A method for processing an image to convert a non-interlacing scan data into an interlacing scan data is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a non-interlacing scan data, the non-interlacing scan data including plural pixels, replacing a color space... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079193 | Image display device in digital TV Disclosed is an image display device in a digital TV that is capable of carrying out the conversion into various kinds of resolution by using single bit map data in the digital TV. The image display device includes: a data processing part for executing bit map conve... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079284 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus which processes a plurality of supplied color image signals and outputs the processed signals to an image forming apparatus. The image processing apparatus comprises a conversion section which converts the supplied color image signals t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061538 | Image-information converting apparatus and method, image displaying apparatus and method, coefficient calculating apparatus and method, coefficient-data storing apparatus, apparatus and method for detecting part where picture quality is degraded, recording medium, and program The absolute value of the difference between each of the pairs of pixel values of a target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the target pixel, a pixel that is left-adjacent to the target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the left-adjacent pixel, the le... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057671 | Image and video processing with chrominance attenuation The values of the primary color space components of an image signal, such as the components of RGB video signal, are maintained within their allowed range by modifying the signal in a different color space, such as YUV space. Specifically, the U and V chrominance co... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7039247 | Graphic codec for network transmission Various embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and apparatus for transmitting screen display information from a remote server to a client. By implementing one or more novel techniques involving content-dependent compression/encoding, block motion est... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030932 | Apparatus and method for converting multi-source input images An apparatus and a method for converting multi-source input images are disclosed. The apparatus includes an outside interface part including N outside interface units and pre-processing the input image, a format converting part including N format converters and conv... | 04/18/2006 |
