Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184137 | System and method for ordering of scaling and capturing in a video system Various aspects of processing video information in a display controller may comprise calculating a decision value for a current field based on a video format of the current field and an output video format. The decision value may be compared to a threshold value. In... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8149254 | Displaying apparatus to reduce image marking and control method thereof The invention relates to a displaying apparatus having a display unit on which an image corresponding to an image signal inputted is displayed, comprising: an image signal processing unit processing the image signal so that the image is displayed on the display unit... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144174 | Display processing method and display processing apparatus According to the present invention, when video resolution is changed, the TV receiver selects resolution having a priority to the graphics resolution requested by the application depending on the application types, or the TV receiver selects graphics resolution appr... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139091 | Display system having resolution conversion There is disclosed a display system comprising an input buffer to receive a set of pixel data in line direction from a source image; a scaling factor generation module to generate a scaling value set according to an original resolution Vi of the source image and a r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8120629 | Display device A signal converter to make a display module conduct an n-ply display operation divides one frame period of input display data into n subframes to obtain n-ply display data, shifts the sampling position for each n-ply display data, samples the data to convert resolut... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115789 | Display control apparatus and method for enlarging image of content and displaying enlarged image An analyzer of a display control apparatus analyzes image characteristics of an image that has been pixel-converted by a pixel converter. A number-of-pixels determining unit compares the analysis result obtained by the analyzer with predetermined deterioration deter... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102407 | Method and device for manipulating color in a display Embodiments include methods and devices for controlling the spectral profile and color gamut of light produced by an interferometric display. Such devices include illuminating a display with selected wavelengths of light. Embodiments also include a display comprisin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094172 | Image display device and liquid crystal television having distributed subframe image data to a plurality of pixels There is provided an image display device in which a display panel is driven based a plurality of sub-frame image data produced from a frame image data representing an image of one screen to display the image, the image display device includes: a dividing unit to di... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094173 | Method and system for adjusting screen resolution A method and system for adjusting a screen resolution of a liquid crystal display module (LCM) of a portable electronic device are provided. The portable electronic device includes a touch panel, and a bay configured to receive and hold a stylus. The method includes... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085284 | Method and apparatus for displaying bitmap multi-color image data on dot matrix-type display screen on which three primary color lamps are dispersedly arrayed A display screen comprises many pixel lamps arrayed uniformly and in a regular pattern. Pixel lamps come in three types (first- to third-color lamps), and image data to be displayed on the screen consist of bit-map type multi-colored data in which one pixel is repre... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082226 | Using user context information to select media files for a user in a distributed multi-user digital media system In a distributed or multi-user system, it is possible for a user to try to access a media file that is not optimal for the user's purposes. In other words, the best quality version of some source material might not be the most optimal version for all users. For exam... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059144 | Generating and resolving pixel values within a graphics processing pipeline A graphics processing apparatus 2 includes graphics processing pipelines 8. The graphics processing pipelines 8 include a programmable hardware stage 12, a pipeline memory 22 and writeback circuitry 16. Programmable resolvin... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054322 | Computer system and control method thereof A method of controlling a computer system having a computer to generate and to transmit a video signal, a display to display the video signal transmitted from the computer, and an interface through which the computer communicates with the display, the method includi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044985 | Display overdrive method A display overdrive method applicable to LCD picture process involves having image data containing gray scale presentation range inputted into the display; a corresponding gray scale range being set up based on the time of a frame from the former range to be present... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035665 | Methods and systems for using control data to control a display of an image by a display device Methods of using control data to control a display of an image by a display device include encoding the control data as a line of video data, including the line of encoded control data in a video signal having a number of lines of image video data, transmitting the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035666 | Dynamic backlight adaptation for black bars with subtitles Embodiments of a system that includes one or more integrated circuits are described. During operation, the system receives a video image, that when displayed, includes a picture portion, a non-picture portion, and a subtitle which is superimposed on at least a subse... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026936 | Method for displaying images and display apparatus using the same A method for displaying images in a display apparatus is provided herein. In the display apparatus, an image is displayed during each frame period of a plurality of contiguous frames. At first, original images are received, and each of the received original images i... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7999834 | Display device A display device includes a body including a stationary portion and an extendible portion movable relative to the stationary portion, an expandable display portion having a display area, an adjustable resistor, and a controlling unit. The first end of the expandable... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7898558 | Gate driving circuit and driving circuit unit thereof A driving circuit unit outputting a driving signal includes an input unit, an assistant output unit and an output unit. The input unit is coupled to an input node and receives a start signal to make the input node have a potential. The assistant output unit receives... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893951 | Image display apparatus and image display method Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus for displaying an image received from an image supplying source on an image display section after carrying out a conversion process on the image in an image conversion section employed in the information display a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7864203 | System, method and computer program product for adjusting a display device viewing experience A system, method, and computer program product are provided for adjusting a viewing experience associated with a display device. During use, a user interface capable of being used for adjusting the viewing experience associated with the display device is automatical... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7830400 | Display unit A display unit has an image presentation section 10 for receiving a plurality of monomedia data and presentation style data describing a presentation style of a frame of each of the individual monomedia data, for generating scaling/combining control informati... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7787001 | Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, image processing method, and computer product An image processing apparatus that performs resolution conversion on image data to output to a display unit includes a resolution converting unit configured to perform resolution conversion on the image data to generate pixel data having a resolution α times as hig... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7777766 | Image display apparatus and method An image display unit has a display region with a higher resolution than a number of pixels of an image. A base information storage unit stores viewing position information of a viewer and size information of the display region. A wide-angle transformation unit calc... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7764295 | Real size display system Disclosed is a real size display system comprising a real size display system comprising a photographing unit for photographing an image of a subject, and outputting first image information that includes measurement information of the subject; a flat panel display u... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7738003 | Display device for shifting location of pixels and method thereof A display device and method are provided for shifting the location of pixels. The display device has a display panel with a certain panel resolution, a signal input part for receiving an input signal with a certain input resolution, a resolution adjustment part for ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724270 | Apparatus and methods to achieve a variable color pixel border on a negative mode screen with a passive matrix drive A display unit is constituted by a passive matrix of independently controllable pixels characterized by an active area of n rows and m columns of discrete pixels and a pixel border. The pixel border has a predetermined width, in one embodiment two pixels. The border... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724271 | Apparatus and method of transforming multidimensional video format Provided are an apparatus and a method of transforming a format of a multidimensional image so that the multidimensional image can be output by any type of display device. The apparatus includes a scaler and a formatter. The scaler receives the multidimensional imag... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719552 | Image quality in a 3D image display device A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle, the display device including a display panel having a plurality of separately addressable pixels for displaying said image. The pixels a... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716568 | Display apparatus and media display method A media receiving apparatus capable of preventing media from being positioned in an invalid display area or a program from being temporarily stopped, even if the vertical/horizontal ratio of the resolution of the display section is switched while a broadcast or stre... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7679629 | Methods and systems for constraining a video signal Systems and methods for filtering to comply with copy-protection regulations set forth for HDTV signals by the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”) are presented. A copy-protection filter constrains the resolution of the HDTV signal when copy-protectio... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7671876 | Resolution scaler using a decimal part of an accumulator output as a weight for generating scaled pixel data A resolution scaler of the present invention uses a shift adder instead of a multiplier for scaling an input resolution. The resolution scaler is provided with a counter controller and a pixel scaler. The counter controller outputs a weight to the pixel scaler. The ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7663651 | Image display method and apparatus An image has pixels arranged in ((M lines)×(N columns)) each pixel having color information. A display has elements arranged in ((P lines)×(Q columns), 1 | 02/16/2010 |
| 7659915 | Portable reading device with mode processing A reading device includes a computing device and an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing low resolution images and high resolution images. The reading machine also includes a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7626601 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method A video signal processing apparatus for outputting an output video signal to a display unit and displaying an image based on an input video signal on the display unit includes a signal processor for dividing the input video signal into a predetermined number of sign... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7583280 | Image display device An image display device that resolution-converts input image data to perform image display. The image display device includes an image memory storing the input image data, a control section specifying an effective range from the input image data, and a resolution co... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7557819 | Image display system and method including optical scaling A method of displaying an image having a first aspect ratio with a display device having a second aspect ratio includes receiving image data for the image, buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image at the first aspect ratio, defining a first sub-fra... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551190 | Display processing method and display processing apparatus According to the present invention, when video resolution is changed, the TV receiver selects resolution having a priority to the graphics resolution requested by the application depending on the application types, or the TV receiver selects graphics resolution appr... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551189 | Method of and apparatus for digital image processing An image incident on a pixel array having a Bayer pattern is compressed by grouping only some of the pixels in the Bayer pattern into sets including a triad of pixels of the Bayer pattern. The triad of pixels of each set includes the three primary colors and are nex... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7511725 | Apparatus and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel display Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for providing a three-dimensional moving image from a non-fixed pixel display. In one embodiment, a display having a plurality of pixels is provided, wherein at least one of the pixels is non-fixed and dynamic... | 03/31/2009 |
