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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366347 | Edge detecting method There is provided an edge detecting method, which is capable of preventing a noise influence caused by imaging device and a color interpolation. The edge detecting method includes the steps of: setting a first kernel based on a center pixel in pixel data arranged in... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7231072 | Image processing method and image converting apparatus There is described an image processing method and an image converting apparatus for performing the image processing for recording the medical image information. The apparatus includes an image converting section to convert the image in respect to the original image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224853 | Method and apparatus for resampling data A set of known data samples are identified and an approximation of an original function from which the known data samples were obtained is created. The approximation function is then resampled to obtain desired values that are not contained in the set of known data ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222035 | Method and apparatus for determining changing signal frequency A method and apparatus for estimating the changing frequency of a signal received by a satellite receiver from, illustratively, positioning system satellites is disclosed that enables a more accurate measurement of the change in frequency of that signal due to movem... | 05/22/2007 |
| 6404935 | Area efficient two-stage correction log look-up A memory look up table receives a first portion of an input data signal via an address input, and in response provides an output data signal corresponding to one of a plurality of memory locations. The output data signal includes a mathematical approximat... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6310660 | Video signal dropout detector A method and apparatus for detecting video signal dropout. The method includes the step of generating a video signal, and then electronically isolating at least one component of the video signal. The at least one component is representative of the absence... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6195726 | Method and apparatus for performing patterned read and write operations A read/write drive such as a DVD+RW drive performs interleaved read and write operations on a recordable medium without relying on long seeks. During a first mode of operation, the read/write drive writes a pattern of data units (e.g., blocks) separated b... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5751886 | Video image processing apparatus A video image processing apparatus comprising with a frame memory for temporarily storing field video data from a recording medium, an interpolation processor module for interpolating the field video data stored in the frame memory and a memory control mo... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5572332 | Video cassette recorder for simultaneously recording broadcasting signals of two channels and selectively playing back the recorded two channel broadcasting signals Recording and playback systems for a VCR. The VCR recording system comprises first and second signal input circuits for inputting first and second channel signals and detecting video and audio signals from the first and second channel signals, respectivel... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5495298 | Apparatus for concealing detected erroneous data in a digital image signal An apparatus for concealing error data of pixel data in a digital image signal. The apparatus includes a deframing circuit for detecting errors every predetermined unit to generate a first error flag in high order bit planes including at least the most si... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5450506 | Image data processing apparatus and method An image data processing apparatus generates output data representing an image in a spatial domain from a plurality of sets of input data, each representing in a spatial frequency domain a sub sampled version of the image in the spatial domain. An error d... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5247363 | Error concealment apparatus for HDTV receivers Image reproduction is improved in an MPEG-like television receiver by inclusion of post-processing adaptive error concealment. Compressed video signal is examined to determine blocks of video signal containing errors, and error tokens are generated for id... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5233437 | Recording/reproduction apparatus for high-definition video signal A recording/reproduction system performs high precision drop-out processing and compensation in the reproduction mode from a disk-shaped recording medium by using a recording format in which a video signal is divided alternately in units of one horizontal... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5231680 | Horizontal adaptive error concealment system for component digital television signals Error concealment of an erroneous pixel in a line of pixels is provided by adaptively using a large number of adjacent correct pixels along the same horizontal line. The invention discards any corrupted adjacent pixel which would be used in the calculatio... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5179453 | Recording medium playback apparatus including a variable compensation circuit A recording medium playback apparatus for production of a composite video signal by combining a multiplicity of H-line video signals reproduced from playback of a plurality of recording media which carry different video signals respectively is provided in... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5166794 | Drop out compensating circuit with interpolation of proximate pixel signals In an interpolation signal producing circuit, amplitudes of a plurality of proximate pixel signals are compared and the order of magnitudes of such pixel signals is determined, whereupon an interpolation signal is derived which is intermediate the largest... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5153742 | Drop-out correction inhibitor for preventing corruption of spatially non-correlated data A drop-out correction circuit for use in a VCR includes a generator for developing a gating signal identifying selected horizontal lines of a video signal containing spatially non-correlated encoded data. A control signal developed in response to a drop-o... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5150220 | Video signal-processing circuit for outputting a drop out signal superimposed on a correlation/noncorrelation signal A video reproduction signal-processing circuit is an integrated circuit and is incorporated in a video tape recorder. In this integrated circuit, a dropout-detecting circuit generates a dropout signal, and a limiter circuit and a wave-shaping circuit join... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5142537 | Video signal processing circuit A video signal processing circuit carries out error correction, error concealment and weighted mean processing sequentially on video signals reproduced by a video tape recorder. One and two dimensional error concealment modes are provided respectively uti... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5105282 | Video signal correcting device Disclosed is a video signal correcting device comprising area memorizing means for memorizing a video signal reproduced from a medium for one field unit or frame unit, means for detecting a drop-out of the reproduced video signal, drop-out position memori... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5027209 | Interpolation circuit for digital signal processor An interpolation circuit, in which a digital signal produced by sampling and quantizing an analog information sequentially is encoded so that, in case a certain one of the encoded sample data is erroneous, a correct data in place of the erroneous sample d... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5027204 | Memory for video signals The described memory is intended for video signals whose picture information is partitioned into fields and in which the information of the fields is arranged in lines. Separate field information components may be absent in the video signals to be stored.... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4984095 | Video signal processing apparatus having delay means for varied uses Video signal processing apparatus in which a reproduced signal and a delayed video signal produced by a delay mechanism are selectively produced and supplied to the delay mechanism and the delayed video signal produced by the delay mechanism is mixed with... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4937680 | Video signal reproducing apparatus having drop-out compensation and interpolation A video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a video signal from a recording medium is arranged such that, if a signal drop-out occurs in the process of forming an interpolation video signal from the video signal reproduced from the recording medi... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4897724 | Apparatus and method for reproducing digitized video pictures, with inclined plane error restoration A device for reproducing digitally presented video pictures includes a restoration circuit for restoring erroneous picture elements. To this end a reference sub-picture is composed of erroneous and correct picture elements, the erroneous picture elements ... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4891699 | Receiving system for band-compression image signal When the receiving system for a band-compression image signal receives a dropout signal representing a dropout portion of an image signal, an output of the third delay circuit of the temporal filter for motion detection processing, that is, motion informa... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4872066 | Drop-out correction apparatus A signal processing device detects information drop-out parts of an incoming information signal by dividing the information signal received for a given period of time into an n number (n: an integer which is at least 2) of blocks and by forming an informa... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4853798 | Method and apparatus for reproducing digital or analog signals A tape player includes digital and analog reproducing sections for playing back a magnetic tape having recorded thereon encoded digital data arranged in data blocks and an analog signal running parallel to the digital data. A switching circuit in the digi... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4837624 | Recognition and compensation of errors in a digital video signal Digital video signals are subjected to band limiting by a high pass filter with a pass band terminating somewhat above half of the digital sampling frequency. The filtered signal is in effect subtracted from the original signal in an addition circuit with... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4829522 | Apparatus for decoding a digital signal A decoding device for decoding digital signals that are transmitted after being processed separately blockwise, performs error interpolation by using only the data within a block where the code error has occurred, in such a manner that the adverse effect ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4819236 | Data transmission method suitable for a disc A data transmission method for data is disclosed in which a rectangular array is formed of a block of data containing n words, supplementary data necessary to transmit the n words of data and an error detecting code to detect possible errors which may occ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4742519 | Apparatus for decoding error correcting code Apparatus for decoding an error detecting or correcting code constructed from digital information data and redundant data for detecting or correcting errors in the digital information data, the digital information data and redundant data being reproduced ... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4731675 | Dropout correcting apparatus wherein dropout detecting flog signal is superimposed on reproduced video signal A dropout correcting apparatus has a dropout detecting circuit for detecting a dropout from a reproduced video signal. A mixing circuit superimposes a dropout detecting flag signal from the dropout detecting circuit upon the reproduced video signal. A tim... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4706132 | Video signal processing system A video signal processing system including an A/D converting circuit for analog-to-digital converting an input video signal; a storing circuit for storing data produced from the A/D converting circuit; a coefficient multiplying circuit for multiplying the... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4691249 | Dropout compensator and luminance averager with "shared" delay A video disk player, arranged to reproduce a video signal from a single recorded field, operates with fewer components by "sharing" a one-line delay element with a dropout compensator and a luminance averager. In the absence of a dropout, the output video... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4667317 | Method for the storage on and the reproduction from an optically readable record carrier A method for storing and reproducing data by means of a standard compact-disk digital audio player. The bit groups in which the data words are contained are recorded at least three times, the analog output signal of the player being sampled and digitized ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4667238 | Noninvasive bad channel detection and correction A video signal processing technique for detection and correction of the video signal from a bad video channel is disclosed for use with a video imaging system having a plurality of video channels for providing a video signal for a plurality of video scan ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4638380 | Digital video tape recorder apparatus Digital video tape recorder apparatus comprises a recording head assembly having 2n heads, where n is an integer, preferably one, two or three, a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the video samples of an incoming digital television signal sample-by-sample,... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4605966 | Error concealment in digital television signals A method of concealing errors in a digital television signal formed by a plurality of sample signals corresponding respectively to sample positions along a horizontal scan line of a television picture made up of a plurality of such lines, the method compr... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4593392 | Error correction circuit for digital audio signal In an error correction circuit of the type in which a received audio signal is passed to the error correction output when no error is detected and wherein a substitute signal, e.g. either a previous value of the received audio signal or a muting signal, i... | 06/03/1986 |
