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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7289159 | Video generation and capture techniques Method and arrangement for capturing and automatically formatting video signals in both synchronized and deflection driven forms in which a single real-time capture module is provided including three input channels for receiving the video signals, three analog to di... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7224736 | Adaptive clocking mechanism for digital video decoder An adaptive clocking mechanism is provided for a digital display system. The digital display system includes a clock recovery system, for recovering a system time clock from a video bit-stream generated at an encoder, and a decoding system for decoding and decompres... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7183713 | Auxiliary coil driver circuit for a cathode ray tube A magnetic field compensation winding arrangement for a cathode ray tube includes a magnetic field compensation winding positioned on the cathode ray tube to compensate for an ambient magnetic field. An operational amplifier is used for generating a magnetic field c... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6980195 | Window brightness enhancement for LCD display An LCD monitor has an LCD panel for displaying a display video signal, and a lighting unit for illuminating the LCD panel. A personal computer, for example, supplies an input video signal and a control signal indicating that the brightness of a portion of the displa... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977653 | Surround sound display A surround sound display has a graphic sound stage image, including speakers representing sources and a central listener, and bent correlation meter scales for each stereo channel. The correlation meter scales have values from +1 at one end to −1 at the other end ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6939145 | Spring element for use in an apparatus for attaching to a semiconductor and a method of making A spring element used in a temporary package for testing semiconductors is provided. The spring element is compressed so as to press the semiconductor, either in the form of a bare semiconductor die or as part of a package, against an interconnect structure. The spr... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6912015 | Video display apparatus with vertical scan velocity modulation and video display method thereof A parallel scanning circuit outputs a parallel scanning signal for making forward and backward scanning lines parallel. A vertical correlation detection circuit detects a portion where the change in luminance in the vertical direction exceeds a predetermined value o... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6850211 | Method for aligning a lens train assembly within a head-up display unit A method of compensating for distortion errors within a head-up display by mapping default pixel locations within a control environment, storing the default pixel locations to a storing means, recalling the stored default pixel locations while the head-up display is... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6836298 | Apparatus and method for correcting distortion of image and image displayer using the same An apparatus and a method for correcting a distorted image is capable of correcting an optical distortion of an image and misconvergence by prewarping an inputted image without using a convergence yoke, and an image displayer using the same. The apparatus for correc... | 12/28/2004 |
| RE38537 | Self-diagnosis arrangement for a video display and method of implementing the same A self-diagnostic arrangement for a video display apparatus and method effectuating the same is disclosed. The apparatus according to the present invention includes a cable connector, amplifiers and a cathode ray tube and comprises a microprocessor storing informati... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6683586 | Apparatus and method of adjusting horizontal position for a video display appliance An apparatus for adjusting a horizontal position of a video display appliance in which a display image is put in the center of a monitor screen. The apparatus includes a comparative circuit, a horizontal correction circuit and a deflection circuit. The co... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6590572 | Synchronous serial display monitor control and communications bus interface A monitor interface cable for transmitting display data and command data between a computer system and a display monitor preferably including a microcontroller. The monitor interface cable enables both display and command data to be transmitted simultaneo... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6559609 | Raster center control circuit for CRT-type display device A raster center control circuit for a CRT-type display device that automatically determines a correct horizontal center position of a raster, regardless of a horizontal sync frequency input from a video card. The raster center control circuit includes a h... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6496160 | Stroke to raster converter system An apparatus for converting analog stroke display signals representing electron beam generated stroke traces into raster display information for producing a raster-scan image display. The apparatus includes a sampling circuit for sampling the analog strok... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6339412 | Device and method for stabilizing horizontal transistor of video display device A stabilizing circuit for stabilizing a horizontal transistor of a video display device. The stabilizing circuit includes a transient state detector for detecting a transient state of a phase locked loop circuit in a horizontal drive circuit due to a chan... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6323838 | Photosensitive input peripheral device in a personal computer-based video gaming platform An interactive video computer system with a light sensitive peripheral device having a photosensitive transducer operating in conjunction with a personal computer platform. The gun or pen-shaped light-sensitive device is connected to a peripheral adapter ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6315377 | Device and method for protecting a recording head and for reducing power consumption in ink jet recording apparatus A device and method for protecting a recording head in an ink jet recording apparatus. If no print command is detected at an idle state in which a power source of the ink jet recording apparatus is turned on, a head driving voltage for driving the recordi... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6313831 | Device for synchronizing a power drive signal of a monitor and a method therefor A device for synchronizing a power drive signal of a monitor, and a method therefor. The device comprises a central processing unit to receive a horizontal synchronization signal outputted from a video card and to judge whether a frequency of the horizont... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6201537 | Sound control circuit and method using microcomputer A sound control circuit in a display device includes a microcomputer for generating variable signals corresponding to the amount changed in duty cycle of pulse width modulation output when a sound function key is selected. A sound amplifier control circui... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6104360 | Apparatus and method for controlling a monitor using first and second color signals A monitor control device for use in a CRT-type of monitor which receives video signals and synchronizing signals from a host computer and provides a visual display of information on a screen. The monitor control device includes a polarity converter for co... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6097355 | Purity/beam landing error measurement method for electronic display devices A method of calculating beam landing errors in an electronic display device having color phosphor elements and electron guns to generate electron beams to impinge on corresponding phosphor elements require a magnetic field to be generated to deflect an el... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094018 | Method and apparatus for providing moire effect correction based on displayed image resolution In a display monitor, a horizontal synchronization signal having a horizontal scanning frequency is received by a first circuit. A vertical synchronization signal having a vertical scanning frequency is received by a second circuit. A moire correction sig... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6080149 | Method and apparatus for monitoring solid tissue heating Improved methods and apparatus for monitoring the delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy from electrodes disposed in tissue for inducing hyperthermia and other purposes. In one form, an impedance display of a power supply comprises an array of discrete l... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6046713 | Color display device including electron beam deflection arrangement for landing-correction A color display device including a shadow mask and a correction deflection system for correcting landing-errors. The correction deflection system comprises first and second correction deflection devices which are arranged one behind the other in the direc... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6011527 | Correction of linearity errors In order to compensate for currents which are induced in a convergence yoke (16) by a deflection yoke (14), a pulse of current is injected into an amplifier (26) which receives the convergence waveform (from 28) so as to correct or compensate for the indu... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5963268 | Semi-wide view display method and device using the same A semi-wide view display method and device using the same are provided with a semi-wide view function for arbitrarily converting an aspect ratio of a screen in a television. The method includes the steps of setting a display mode according to a user-selec... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5933126 | Electronic apparatus with circuitry for adjusting relational expressions representing relation of display adjustment data to other closely related display adjustment data An image signal display device includes a program data readout circuit by which at least one second adjustment data, not to be adjusted, takes a proper value relative to a first adjustment data, to be adjusted, in accordance with a predetermined relationa... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5644197 | Cathode ray tube display apparatus with rotatable raster Cathode ray tube display apparatus includes a cathode ray tube having a screen (210) and a neck (350). In use an electron beam is directed from the neck (350) towards the screen (210) along an axis (S) of the cathode ray tube containing the centre of the ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5623272 | Electronic apparatus with circuitry for adjusting relational expressions representing relation of display adjustment data to other closely related display adjustment data An image signal display device includes program data readout circuitry by which at least one second adjustment data not to be adjusted takes a proper value relative to a first adjustment data to be adjusted, in accordance with a predetermined relational e... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5619220 | Sound image display method and apparatus A sound image display apparatus displays a sound image waveform representing a sound image produced by a multi-channel surround audio signal in a readily visible form. The sound image display apparatus includes a scaling section which has a variable gain ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5550556 | Transmitting data and commands to display monitors Transmitting via color signals or vertical signals to control a computer's display monitor using software adjustments of the display parameters. A user can vary the display parameters including, for example, the contrast, brightness, horizontal and vertic... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5410245 | Method and apparatus for calibrating electronic scales for the horizontal axis A method and apparatus of calibrating electronic scales for the horizontal axis of an oscilloscope is provided. For each of two electronic scales or cursors, output voltages of a horizontal deflection circuit are generated. A measurement is made to determ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5398040 | Adaptive crosshatch signal generator An adaptive crosshatch signal generator includes a frequency detector for detecting a horizontal scanning frequency, a square calculator supplied with the detected output of the frequency detector, and a variable pulse width multivibrator controlled to ha... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5315310 | Cathode ray tube display apparatus Cathode ray tube display apparatus comprises a cathode ray tube display screen for displaying successive frames of a non-interlaced video image in response to excitation by at least one raster-scanned electron beam. A line timebase circuit sequentially ad... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5302964 | Heads-up display (HUD) incorporating cathode-ray tube image generator with digital look-up table for distortion correction A heads-up display (50) for an aircraft includes a digital image generator (52), a cathode ray tube (CRT) (54) and an optical system (56) which projects an image (58) formed on the CRT screen (54a) indicating the status of the aircraft operation onto a ho... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5241281 | Microprocessor controlled monitor A display monitor capable of providing fully synchronized image display in response to an incoming video signal having a range of possible timing formats. The monitor employs a microprocessor that discriminates between the disparate horizontal and vertica... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5216412 | Display monitor image size regulation A display monitor includes a conventional CRT and associated display drive circuitry together with conventional horizontal and vertical deflection systems. A high voltage system is operated in response to the horizontal deflection system to produce a CRT ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5053684 | Display tube control system System for controlling the position and intensity of an electron beam in a display tube of a display unit in such a manner that both analog signals as well as alphanumeric characters can be made visible simultaneously on the screen of the display tube. Th... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4982178 | Shadow mask color system with calligraphic displays A display system is disclosed utilizing a cathode ray display device utilizing three electron beams which are directed through a shadow mask to excite three-color phosphor dots, and which is incorporated in a system to alternately provide raster scan disp... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4970500 | Shadow mask color system with calligraphic displays A display system is disclosed utilizing a cathode ray display device utilizing three electron beams which are directed through a shadow mask to excite three-color phosphor dots, and which is incorporated in a system to alternately provide raster scan disp... | 11/13/1990 |
