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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8330871 | Method and apparatus for detecting motion in an image display device A method for detecting motion in an image display device includes receiving a plurality of composite signals having luminance signals and chrominance signals corresponding to a plurality of frames, determining luminance motion factors of the plurality of frames acco... | 12/11/2012 |
| 7453525 | Motion detector for a video display system Systems and methods are provided for detecting motion within a composite video signal. A first chroma difference element compares an in-phase chroma component of the composite video signal to a delayed representation of the in-phase chroma component to produce a fir... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7321396 | Deinterlacing apparatus and method A deinterlacing apparatus and method thereof include a motion compensation unit implementing motion-compensated temporal interpolation for each of estimated motion vectors with reference to a previous field and a next field, which are respectively ahead of and behin... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7280159 | Method and apparatus for cross color and/or cross luminance suppression A method and apparatus for cross color and/or cross luminance suppression. The apparatus checks for three conditions in determining the stillness of an image. Similarity between two frames, which are one frame apart, is examined. Similarity between two adjacent fram... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274408 | [Method of motion detection for 3D comb filter video decoder] The invention is directed to a method of 3-dimensional (3D) comb filter video decoder. The composite video signal is sampled to obtain multiple sampling data FmPx,y, which represents the yth pixel of the Xth line in the m | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271850 | Method and apparatus for cross color/cross luminance suppression According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for processing an image in a video data is disclosed. The video data comprises at least a first frame and a second frame. The first frame is composed of a first even field and a first odd field, while the s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269596 | Audio and/or video generation apparatus An audio/video generation apparatus comprises an audio and/or video generation device operable to generate audio and/or video material, and a metadata generation processor. The metadata generation processor is operable to generate metadata describing the content and... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7236211 | Method of inter-frame Y/C separation The present invention discloses a method of inter-frame Y/C separation. The method first samples a composite video signal for temporarily storing a plurality of sampled data FmPx,y, wherein the FmPx,y represents data of th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7203358 | Method and device for measuring similarity between images A method is disclosed for measuring similarity between images, comprising the performance of the following steps for each of the images: segmentation of the image into segments, classification of the segments as a function of their orientation to give classes, calcu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203380 | Video production and compaction with collage picture frame user interface A method, system, and apparatus for easily creating a video collage from a video is provided. By segmenting the video into a set number of video segments and providing an interface for a user to select images which represent the video segments and insert the selecte... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7176982 | Recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection A system and system for performing adaptive recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection on a video stream is presented. After processing a field pixels that were modified are stored in the field so that processing of later fields uses the modified pixels. F... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167213 | Comb filter design for separating luminance and chrominance in video signals Provided are decoding methods and decoders for calculating comb filter error and performing comb filter calculation used for decoding video signals. In one aspect, a method of calculating comb filter error used for decoding a video signal comprises storing a plurali... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7145604 | Method and device for determining the spacing between a first and a second signal sequence In a method and device for determining the spacing between first and second sequences of signal values, first and second successive signal values of the first sequence have assigned thereto a third signal value of the second sequence, the third signal value being lo... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143354 | Summarization of baseball video content Summarization of video content that includes the identification of a plurality of segments from a Video including baseball. In some embodiments the system does not use a model sequence of frames. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120873 | Summarization of sumo video content Summarization of video content, including sumo, may be achieved by identifying a plurality of segments of a video based upon an event that is characterized by a start time of sumo and an end time. One appropriate start time of an event may be sumo wrestlers'initial ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7098957 | Method and apparatus for detecting repetitive motion in an interlaced video sequence apparatus for processing interlaced video signals Interlaced video signals are processed by mixing spatially interpolated video signals with temporally interpolated video signals. The respectively interpolated signals are mixed in dependence on a degree of motion at the given location in the video picture, as defin... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095445 | Method of detecting motion in an interlaced video sequence based on logical operation on linearly scaled motion information and motion detection apparatus A motion decision value provides a dependable estimate whether motion occurs in a given region of a video image in an interlaced video sequence. The motion detection is particularly applicable in the conversion from interlaced video to progressive video. An input fi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7075683 | Dynamic image digest automatic editing system and dynamic image digest automatic editing method An image processing section 10 calculates degree of similarity among a plurality of image frames of dynamic image data, determines scene-change frames based on the calculated degree of similarity, and performs automatic editing and preparation of a digest dyn... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7047494 | Scalable video summarization A system and method for merging scenes in a video sequence and constructing a keyframe to represent the underlying merged video content includes decomposing a video sequence into a series of component scenes, merging component scene pairs until a predetermined numbe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035435 | Scalable video summarization and navigation system and method A method and system for automatically summarizing a video document. The video document is decomposed into scenes, shots and frames, and an importance value is assigned to each scene, shot and frame. Keyframes are allocated among the shots based on the importance val... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6980326 | Image processing method and apparatus for color correction of an image An image process method comprises an input step of inputting color image data composed of a signal representing brightness and a signal representing tint, and a smoothing process step of performing a smoothing process to the signal representing tint, while holding t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6950852 | Method and system for sharing the browser A method and system for sharing a browser. A collaboration server is provided for accumulating pages to be shared from a Web server retaining original pages. The collaboration server comprises a CachinManager that accumulates pages for sharing, a CommunicationManage... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947097 | Process for detecting black bars in a video image A process for detecting black bands in a video image within a luminance range corresponding to low luminance values comprises the steps of: calculating, for each line situated in a location in which a black band can be expected to be found if present in said video i... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6839089 | Signal processing device and signal processing method There is provided a signal processing device in which its structure is simplified and a source subjected to a pull-down processing is detected at high precision. The signal processing device includes a comparison portion and a detection portion in which fields const... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6738100 | Method for detecting scene changes in a digital video stream A system and method that processes video to extract a keyframe-based adequate visual representation. The method utilizes a hierarchical processing technique. The first stage in the hierarchy extracts a chromatic difference metric from a pair of video frames. An init... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6380973 | Image sensing apparatus and method for image processing a moving image or a still image An image in a field inputted by interlace scanning is delayed for a time period corresponding to one field, then, by comparing the delayed image signals and the not-delayed image signals of the image, a movement detecting unit determines whether the input... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6014183 | Method and apparatus for detecting scene changes in a digital video stream The present invention relates to a device which monitors a digitized video data stream and detects when scene changes occur in the video stream. The present invention detects scene changes by comparing from frame-to-frame each of the pixel colors within t... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5680179 | Methods and apparatus for filtering images using fuzzy logic A device for filtering video images, of the type which includes first and second circuit portions, each having first and second input terminals respectively adapted to receive digitalized luminance and chrominance components of a television signal, and an... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5473441 | Video signal reproduction processing method and apparatus for reproduction of a recorded video signal as either a sharp still image or a clear moving image Both a sharp print image and a natural reproduced move image can be obtained from a signal recorded on a recording medium. A recording signal, read from the recording medium, is converted into digital data and is delayed by one field. Data representing th... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5469227 | Video processing system featuring a choice between inter and intra field processing based on motion in chrominance signals In a video processing system having an intra-field processing mode which allows a better luminance-chrominance separation, and an inter-field processing mode which allows a better performance in the presence of motion in the color signals, wherein a motio... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5430500 | Three-dimensional motion detection A motion detector detects a motion of a video signal by a simple circuit arrangement with high accuracy. The motion detector comprises a first luminance detecting means (42) for detecting a luminance component contained in a composite video signal, a dela... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5374959 | Method of and device for estimating motion in an image For obtaining motion information by using a conventional motion estimator, a composite signal obtained from both the luminance signal and the chrominance signal is applied to this motion estimator. Based on the signals (Cb, Cr) of the two chrominance comp... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5373329 | Method of picture movement signal detection and associated circuit A method of detecting a digital color picture movement signal precisely and economically for three-dimensional processing for the purpose of improving TV and VTR picture quality comprises the steps of detecting the differential between the brightness sign... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5359206 | Thin film transistor substrate, liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display equipment Disclosed is an active-matrix addressed TFT substrate using a thin film transistor, a manufacturing method and an anodic oxidation method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel using the TFT substrate and a liquid crystal display equipment using the liqu... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5311306 | Motion detecting circuit for video signal processor A motion detecting circuit for a video signal processor having a filter arrangement for separating the video signal into the low and high frequency components, a first detecting circuit for detecting a low frequency luminance moving signal, a second detec... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5208662 | Method of encoding color television signal and a circuit therefor An encoding apparatus for encoding color television signals which improves the quality of a display image by selecting a most effective passband of a motion and pattern adaptive 3-D filter filters according to a shape of a pattern or the still and motion ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5164824 | Image freezing signal-processing apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an image freezing signal-processing apparatus capable of eliminating a necessity of using a large number of memories, reducing a time lag and preventing an image deviation. Sequence signals for R, G and B a... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5132790 | Detecting circuit of a video motion signal In a detecting circuit of a video motion signal, luminance signal components of a video signal and a one-frame-delayed video signal of the video signal are respectively extracted by corresponding comb shaped filters, then the luminance signal component of... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5119084 | Liquid crystal display apparatus In a liquid crystal driving apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display panel in accordance with an image signal, the response speed of a liquid crystal display panel is increased so as not to produce an afterimage upon motion image display. A signal i... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5032914 | Movement detection and y/c separation circuit for detecting a movement in a television display picture An arrangement for detecting movement in a picture displayed on a television display. Y/C color separation detects movement in a displayed picture by generating a first movement detection signal with respect to luminance, a second movement detection signa... | 07/16/1991 |
