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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7405769 | Method and system for 3D comb synchronization and alignment of standard and non-standard video signals In a method and system for 3D comb synchronization and alignment of standard and non-standard video signals, a coarse synchronization is performed on a bottom frame, a current frame, and a top frame based on a bottom frame field count. The current frame is assigned ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7372469 | Image transforming method The present invention provides a method for rotating YUV4:2:0 image in a digital display device, such as TV image system. A YUV4:2:0 image is separated to a Y division matrix and a U and V division matrix. Then the Y division is performed a rotation matrix calculati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7286387 | Reducing the effect of write disturbs in polymer memories The write disturb that occurs in polymer memories may be reduced by writing back data after a read in a fashion which offsets any effect on the polarity of bits in bit lines associated with the addressed bit. For example, each time the data is written back, its pola... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7116894 | System and method for digital multimedia stream conversion A method for converting a program stream to a transport stream is described comprising: reading program stream packets from a digital versatile disk (“DVD”) based on user selections and navigation metadata contained on the DVD; extracting audio and video content... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7039935 | Program guide system with flip and browse advertisements An interactive television program guide is provided in which advertisements may be displayed in program listings display regions on program guide screens. The program listings display regions may be browse displays or flip displays. The program guide screens contain... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6906755 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video data A system receives a transport stream containing video data and audio data. A determination is made regarding the time required to process the video data contained in the transport stream and the time required to process the audio data contained in the transport stre... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6803964 | Method and apparatus for processing digital data A method and apparatus for synchronizing a data stream that contains video data in which the video data includes frames. As frames are being processed, a number of frames processed is identified along with a number of frames dropped during processing. A synchronizat... | 10/12/2004 |
| 5715018 | Digital advertisement insertion system Digital audio/video insertion and broadcast system. The system takes audio/video source information and digitizes, compresses and stores the information. The storage is in a random access medium such as magnetic or optical disks. Playing apparatus decompr... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5691780 | Phase error control for color wheel A motor control unit (15c) for synchronizing a color wheel (15) to an incoming video signal and for re-synchronizing the color wheel after a channel change. The motor control unit (15c) has an error control unit (31), which detects an out-of-phase conditi... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5654773 | Picture storage device separates luminance signal into even number and odd number data and separates two channel color signal into former half pixels and latter half pixels A picture storage device conveniently employed in conjunction with an electronic still camera or a video camera has an input data converting unit for separating luminance signals of input color picture data having a non-interlaced data format with the sam... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5528317 | Timing circuit for video display having a spatial light modulator A method and apparatus for synchronizing display timing in a digital television system with a pixel addressable display having a color wheel is disclosed. The display timing circuit 22 includes phase comparator 40, for comparing the phase of a wheel index... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5517253 | Multi-source video synchronization A system for synchronizing input video signals from a plurality of video sources includes a plurality of buffering units (B1 . . . BN) each coupled to receive a respective one of the input video signals. The buffering units have mutually independent read ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5426468 | Method and apparatus utilizing look-up tables for color graphics in the digital composite video domain In a composite video system having a digitized composite video signal to be modified, wherein the digitized video signal has discrete values having sampling frequency Nfs where N is an integer greater than one, and fs is the color su... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5365283 | Color phase control for projection display using spatial light modulator A SLM-based projection display system (10) samples and processes video data for delivery to a spatial light modulator (SLM) (13c), and uses a color wheel (14a) to color the SLM-generated images. A frame memory (13b) provides data to the SLM (13c) and is m... | 11/15/1994 |
| 4862269 | Memory control apparatus In a memory control apparatus for providing various video display functions by means of a video memory into which video data constituting successive units, such as, frames or fields, or video information are written at repeatedly changing write addresses ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4531147 | Digital memory color framing circuit The invention provides a color framing circuit for a digital memory, which has a first read line flip-flop generator for producing an RLFF0 pulse; a toggle flip-flop for receiving a loading data from a memory using a vertical pulse or a delayed... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4445135 | Synchronizing system for television signals A digital main store having a capacity of one field and a buffer store of much lower capacity upstream of the main store are so arranged that the buffer control controls the buffer store to compensate frequency differences between an input television sign... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4325075 | Digital television video signal storage system A digital television video signal storage system wherein the required memory capacity is reduced and memory utilization efficiency increased by reducing the number of bits in an imaginary vertical memory address without effectively increasing the number o... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4249198 | Phase locking system for television signals An improved phase locking system in which an independently reproduced video signal is coded into a digitized video signal in response to a first clock pulse train, the first clock pulse train being produced from a synchronizing signal and/or a color burst... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4101926 | Television synchronizing apparatus Television synchronizer apparatus includes a coherent memory with preassigned fixed burst phasing of 0° or 180° for each line store of color video image information. The incoming synchronizing components including burst are discarded on the premise that... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4007486 | Phase locking system for television signals using a digital memory technique A phase locking system locks at least one incoming composite video signal to the synchronizing signals of a second, reference wave. The incoming signal is strobed at a rate dependent upon the incoming color subcarrier into a memory, essentially on a field... | 02/08/1977 |
