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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189115 | Image device to reverse play with minimal time delay and a method thereof An image device capable of reverse play with minimal time delay, and a method thereof. The image device includes a buffer to store a greater number of pictures than constitute a single group of pictures (GOP), and a controller to operate the buffer to store decoded ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184960 | Method and system for performing reverse play of SD MPEG video One or more methods and systems to efficiently process MPEG video in order to perform a reverse play or slow rewind function are presented. The method reduces system bandwidth required to implement the reverse play function when SD MPEG video is received by the MPEG... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7864251 | System and method for decreasing end-to-end delay during video conferencing session A method for decreasing end-to-end delay in a video conferencing context is disclosed. At video conferencing system startup, a processor is initialized to receive either a top field or a bottom field of video frame data. If the first line of a new field arriving aft... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7656461 | Method of and apparatus for utilizing video buffer in a multi-purpose fashion to extend the video buffer to multiple windows The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images an... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7595844 | Method for assisting video compression in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a method that facilitates compression of video data in a computer system by performing the time-consuming task of computing the difference between successive frames of video data independently from the central process... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7436891 | Burst mode memory fetches when decoding compressed image data An image data decompression apparatus for decoding blocks of motion compensated non-intra coded data uses a memory (14) storing reference picture data. A decoding processor (12) decodes a current block of a generated picture using lines of previously d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429992 | Method and system for providing accelerated video processing in a communication device Providing accelerated video processing in a communication device may comprise receiving video data from a video source on a chip, determining a first format for at least a portion of the received video data, and determining a second format of at least a remaining po... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7391469 | Method and apparatus for video decoding and de-interlacing An apparatus for video decoding and de-interlacing contains a video decoder for decoding video data to generate decoded video data of a next picture; a storage device coupled to the video decoder, the storage device having four frame buffers for buffering the decode... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385649 | Video display apparatus and method In a video display apparatus and method, video data of video being displayed on a display unit are sequentially updated and temporality stored in a storage unit. The video data stored in the storage unit is written into an external storage medium according to a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7362337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a (2i−1)th row and a (2i)th row of intermediate data respectively bas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327397 | Image processing with pixel interpolation The present invention provides an image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof which shifts positions of each detected pixel in image signals generated by performing double-speed conversion, wherein a difference value in pixel signal level between a detect... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327329 | Dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel overdrive in an LCD panel based display In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by performing the following operations. A video vertical refresh rate of an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327332 | Plasma display panel video processing circuit and method and video display device and method using plasma display panel A video processing circuit for preventing generation of contour noise irrespective of varied directions of light emission schemes. A first video signal and a second video signal delayed by a predetermined field are received, a first motion detection result is output... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317451 | Apparatus and method for displaying out-of-range mode An apparatus and method for displaying an out-of-range mode which has a resolution higher than a mode supported by a monitor is provided. The method for displaying an out-of-range mode in monitor displaying includes the steps of (a) sensing received horizontal and v... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311920 | Virus coat protein/receptor chimeras and methods of use The invention relates to chimeric molecules comprising a virus coat sequence and a receptor sequence that can interact with each other to form a complex that is capable of binding a co-receptor. Such chimeric molecules therefore exhibit functional properties charact... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310120 | Receiver of analogue video signal having means for analogue video signal conversion and method for control of display of video frames A receiver of analogue video signal having means for analogue video signal conversion has a receiving block (201) for receiving a first analogue video signal, a conversion block (202) for conversion of the first analogue signal into a digital signal, a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307669 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying streams with dynamically changing formats A system and method for displaying frames with dynamically changing display parameters is described herein. The display engine stores new display parameters detected by the decoder in one buffer of a ping pong buffer, while continuing to use another set of display p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307667 | Method and apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller A method and an apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller are described. The integrated high definition digital television controller includes two or more the following functions in a single chip: MPEG2 Transport, Audio and Video Decoders, Vi... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301582 | Line address computer for providing line addresses in multiple contexts for interlaced to progressive conversion Presented herein is a system and method for a line address computer for providing line addresses in multiple contexts for interlaced to progressive conversion. A feeder fetches a first line from a top field, fetches a first line from a bottom field corresponding to ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298425 | Method for assisting video compression in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a method that facilitates compression of video data in a computer system by performing the time-consuming task of computing the difference between successive frames of video data independently from the central process... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284262 | Receiver/decoder and method of processing video data A method of processing video data in a receiver/decoder including at least one port (31) for receiving data and memory means (40) including a data buffer area (45A0, 45A1) for storing incoming data for display, and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7256790 | Video and graphics system with MPEG specific data transfer commands A video and graphics system includes a video decoding system for processing compressed video data. The compressed video data includes MPEG-2 video data containing SDTV video data or HDTV video data. The video decoding system includes a video decoder for processing t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227554 | Method and system for providing accelerated video processing in a communication device Providing accelerated video processing in a communication device may comprise receiving video data from a video source on a chip, determining a first format for at least a portion of the received video data, and determining a second format of at least a remaining po... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218845 | Reading image frames as files First selected image frames in a native format are read from a frame storage device (103) and are directly modified in response to a first process. Output signals are supplied to a display device (102) such that the display device displays a view of st... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209133 | Method and apparatus for asynchronous display of graphic images A display controller in a computer system controls the asynchronous output of graphics display data in a computer system having at least one fixed resolution flat panel display. Fixed panel displays may have problems displaying non-native resolutions particularly at... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7154529 | System and method for enabling a person to view images of the person wearing an accessory before purchasing the accessory A personal optical viewer enables a person to view images of how the person looks wearing an accessory and compare images of how the customer looks wearing different accessories. A seller provides an accessory to a person. A capturing device captures a photograph or... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7110006 | Video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES decryption and to de-multiplex them. The system processes the PES into digita... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098930 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7065141 | Image processing apparatus implemented in IC chip When a reverse reproduction is instructed, an MPEG video stream is once decoded and is converted to image video signals by a first display circuit. Thereafter, the image video signals are again recoded by an image input circuit and an MPEG video encoder, so as to be... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061543 | Method and circuit for image-in-image overlay The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture insertion, in which a sequence of insertion pictures (Kj=K1,K2, . . . ) is read, with vertical decimation (VD≧1), into a memory device (S) and subsequently read out, the sequence of... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057627 | Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as IT... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7042514 | Reception apparatus and picture data processing method A receiver in which, when a picture of television broadcast demonstrated on a picture display device is to be printed, the picture selected by the user can be checked without intermission of pictures of television broadcast. When a command for printing a picture dem... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034889 | Signal processing unit and method for a digital TV system with an increased frame rate video signal A signal processing unit for a digital TV system comprises a first device which acts on a video signal with graphical picture elements and text characters. A second device performs frame-rate conversion on the output of the first device. The output of the second dev... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7015975 | Image processing device with a processing unit that processes image data in units of one scan line The objective of the invention is to provide an image processing device that can operate at high speed even if input/output with respect to the outside is performed at low speed, and that can fully exploit processibility, by means of input line memory 23 and ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995802 | Image binarization method and binary image creation method An image binarization method having highest fidelity for multi-digitized luminance data, and a binary image creation method by which images can be obtained in real-time without post-processing. Thresholds in binarization are not fixed, but set in accordance with cha... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6989837 | System and method for processing memory with YCbCr 4:2:0 planar video data format A system and method for processing YCbCr video data stored in a paged memory with reduced page breaks. A method is disclosed for retrieving YCbCr planar video data in 4:2:0 format from paged memory. A page of the paged memory containing Y data is accessed; Y data co... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6975324 | Video and graphics system with a video transport processor A video and graphics system includes a data transport processor for receiving compressed data streams, a video transport processor for extracting video data, and an audio decode processor for extracting audio data. The data transport processor provides PCRs to the v... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6963337 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, two continuous frame image data to be displayed on a display unit are compared with each other by a comparator circuit, and horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals are regulated in accordance with a comparison result. ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961141 | Method and electronic apparatus for formatting and serving inkjet image data In connection with a host processing system (90) capable of delivering commands and raw image data, an apparatus (100) for formatting raw image data and selectively delivering enhanced image data to a print processing subsystem (92). An image da... | 11/01/2005 |
