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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436941 | Information presenting device and information presenting method An information presenting device includes: a first image generating unit configured to extract, from video data input by way of an input unit, a portion of the video data, and generate multiple main images; a second image generating unit configured to generate multi... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8363162 | Video display system for a motor vehicle A video display system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The video display system includes a display screen configured for single display mode and dual display mode. The display screen further includes a left image portion and a right image portion associated with a... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358377 | Image display apparatus and operating method thereof A method of operating an image display apparatus includes generating a thumbnail image based on an input signal, detecting an error in the thumbnail image, and displaying the thumbnail image if no error is detected in the thumbnail image. ... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8330865 | Electronic apparatus, image display system and image display method According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a display configured to display an image; a display magnification changing module configured to change display magnification of the image; a cursor display module configured to display a cursor; a receiv... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8330864 | Multi-lingual transmission and delay of closed caption content through a delivery system Disclosed is a system and method of blending multiple closed caption language streams into a single output for transmission using closed caption encoding devices. Closed caption signals are created by remote closed caption generating systems that are connected to an... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8330863 | Information presentation apparatus and information presentation method that display subtitles together with video An information presentation apparatus including a video signal inputting unit, a first image generating unit, a second image generating unit, and an image combining unit is provided. A video signal is inputted to the video signal inputting unit. The first image gene... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8310594 | Method and system for picture-based user interface for adjusting picture display parameter settings of a display device A method and system for adjusting picture display settings of a display device is provided. One embodiment involves simultaneously displaying multiple pictures of the same visual content on the display device, wherein the picture setting and one or more sample pictu... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8264609 | Caption presentation method and apparatus using same A caption presentation method and an apparatus using the method, by which caption and information related to the caption can be provided together in a broadcast receiver or in an image reproducer that displays the caption in a closed caption method. The method inclu... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8265461 | Method of scaling subpicture data and related apparatus A method for scaling subpicture data comprises receiving a video data stream and a subpicture data stream; pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain line information of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and bottom field... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8259232 | Image display apparatus and image display method An image display apparatus including an image receiving unit that receives an image signal on which additional display information is superimposed, an image display unit that displays the image signal on which the additional display information is superimposed in a ... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8253861 | Display device, method of adjusting the image quality of the display device, device for adjusting the image quality and device for adjusting the contrast A display device having a multi-view display panel (45) for displaying, on the common screen, individual images for more than one viewing direction and having image quality adjustment circuits (41, 42) for individually adjusting the quality of an image... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8223269 | Closed caption production device, method and program for synthesizing video, sound and text In a closed caption production device, video recognition processing of an input video signal is performed by a video recognizer. This causes a working object in video to be recognized. In addition, a sound recognizer performs sound recognition processing of an input... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8223268 | Image processing apparatus, method and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate image signals for displaying a plurality of screens on one display surface; an operation signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation signal from a user; and a control uni... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8208072 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a digital signal processing module which receives predetermined information and restores a servic... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8189108 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of providing a plurality of contents on a single physical display device and reconstructing a f... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8159613 | Method for setting caption window attributes and associated television system A method for setting caption window attributes and an associated television system are concerned. The method includes steps of providing a plurality of attributive bit sets corresponding to a plurality of pixels in a caption; utilizing a window condition to compare ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159614 | Image display apparatus and channel information display method thereof An image display apparatus and a channel information display method thereof are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes displaying an image from a selected channel on at least one region of a screen; sequentially receiving, by a tuner, images from... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8125567 | Apparatus and method for controlling the screen size of real-time video An apparatus and a method are provided for controlling the screen size of a real-time video stream. The method including receiving via a digital channel a real-time video stream and content, determining whether there is overlap between the video stream and the conte... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8098330 | Mapping of presentation material Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a video output by combining a first video input and a second video input. A first input image is accessed from the first video input and a second input image is accessed from the second video i... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8063988 | Television receiver A TV receiver, which comprises an image character recognition means to recognize captions included in images of the TV programs as characters, a TV program type determination means to determine types of the TV programs, and an information screen generating means to ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063989 | Television broadcast signal receiving apparatus A television broadcast signal receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit, a control unit and a display control unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a plurality of audio-video signals. The control unit is configured to receive operation inputs. The di... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059201 | Method and apparatus for providing a video signal A method of providing a video signal for display of a stream of video data (200) at a rate other than real-time, the video data being built up from frames, includes real-time rendering of non-contiguous segments of the stream of video data having multiple sub... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059202 | Method for controlling electronic apparatus A method is provided for enabling users to control an electronic apparatus such as a television signal receiver, multimedia device, and/or other device in an easy and convenient manner using a single key of a user input device. According to an exemplary embodiment, ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8035745 | Television channel selection canvas A channel selection canvas for display on a video display device is disclosed. The video display device can be a television, a laptop computer, or personal digital assistant device. The channel selection canvas allows a user to preview and choose video signals to be... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8013937 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a digital signal processing module which receives video information, audio information, or data i... | 09/06/2011 |
| RE42640 | Display apparatus A display apparatus including a display to display a picture; a signal processor to format a video signal to be output to the display; and a controller to output a control signal to the signal processor on the basis of a picture display state controlled through a co... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7948560 | On-screen signal processing apparatus and broadcast receiving apparatus for displaying image data according to attribute data An on-screen signal processing apparatus comprises a first display memory for storing binary image data, a second display memory for storing decoration data (i.e., “attribute data”) for decorating the binary image data stored in the first display memory in a uni... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944506 | Caption presentation method and apparatus using same A caption presentation method and an apparatus using the method, by which caption and information related to the caption can be provided together in a broadcast receiver or in an image reproducer that displays the caption in a closed caption method. The method inclu... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7907214 | Display apparatus and control method of the same A control method of a display apparatus including processing a broadcasting signal of a currently tuned channel and displaying the broadcasting signal on a main picture; extracting broadcasting program information of other currently broadcasting channels if a captio... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903953 | Image recording and reproducing apparatus and method An image recording and reproducing apparatus and method are provided, in which a current broadcasting and a previous broadcasting with respect to one image content can be viewed at the same time using multi-decoding. One embodiment of the apparatus includes mode set... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903176 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of connecting a plurality of screens to a plurality of output ports so as to dynamically configure the plura... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7864249 | Method and apparatus displaying double screen An apparatus for displaying a double screen in a wide screen display device, the apparatus including a video interface to receive a first and a second video signal from a plurality of video signals according to a selection control signal, wherein each of the first a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860375 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous recording and displaying two different video programs A method and apparatus for simultaneously recording and displaying video signals from two different video sources. The apparatus comprises a main channel processing circuit, a second channel processing circuit, and common circuitry. The common circuit comprises a di... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7821577 | Display device and method of driving the same A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed, wherein a single original image is converted into a picture-enhanced image and a non-enhanced image, which are then displayed. The display device includes a controller (140) dividing a screen in... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7768576 | Multi-screen synthesis apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for controlling the apparatus There is provided a multi-screen synthesis apparatus that can execute display of video data and update of an OSD image without causing a user to feel a visual sense of incongruity, and reduce system costs. Periodic video source data and aperiodic OSD image data are ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7697072 | Image displaying method and apparatus for television when powering on/off An image displaying method for a television includes: selecting a portion of a plurality of display regions of a screen of the television to display a still or animated image when a power-on signal is received; and utilizing all the plurality of display regions to d... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7659942 | Broadcast receiver A broadcast receiver includes a varying unit which varies an output volume of broadcast audio, a display unit which displays a subtitle, which represents content of the broadcast audio, and a control unit which controls the display unit to display the subtitle when ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7639308 | Television channel selection canvas A channel selection canvas for display on a video display device is disclosed. The video display device can be a television, a laptop computer, or personal digital assistant device. The channel selection canvas allows a user to preview and choose video signals to be... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633554 | Selectively overlaying a user interface atop a video signal Overlaying visual interface information atop a video signal without obscuring desired features of the video signal. The video signal may contain one or more pre-selected features, such as text. Two or more display sections equally divide the video signal, and any pr... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7593064 | System for adaptive display of video image segments A system determines available system resources along with the complexity of video clips in order to initiate and adapt automatic video clip playback. A method automatically concurrently plays multiple video clips in at least one composite video image by automaticall... | 09/22/2009 |
