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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107007 | Image processing apparatus A technique for flexibly converting the number of frames of a displayed image on the basis of a motion in the image or information of an image signal such as a program genre is provided. An image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image signal h... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103152 | Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input from external from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also pro... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102468 | Display device and display method A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a numbers of sub-pixels corresponding to an amount of motion of a target image between a plurality of refere... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098327 | Moving image frame rate converting apparatus and moving image frame rate converting method According to one embodiment, when an input image signal is to be enlarged, a moving image frame rate converting apparatus performs, by a first image processing device for performing scaling and color format conversion on the input image signal before frame rate conv... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094994 | Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input from external from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also pro... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094234 | System and method for multistage frame rate conversion System and method for multistage frame rate conversion. A method comprises receiving an incoming frame at a first frame rate, and determining whether a fault condition exists. The method also includes if the fault condition does not exist, toggling a write buffer po... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089556 | Flat display and driving method thereof A method for driving a flat display is disclosed. Each row of the flat display includes N pixels, that is used to display M pixel data in a row of a image frame, wherein M and N are positive integers and M is larger than N. The method includes, in a first time divis... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081255 | Image converting apparatus, image signal processing apparatus, camera system and image signal processing method An image converting apparatus includes a memory which can store frame information of an image to be played, and an image processing section which can read frame information from the memory and convert the frame rate to a predetermined frame rate in response to a pre... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077257 | Detection of progressive pulldown in a video sequence System and methods for the detection of progressive pulldown in a video sequence are provided. The method comprises calculating a difference between temporally adjacent frames in the video sequence, generating a pattern based upon these differences, and comparing th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072539 | Apparatus and method for digital processing of analog television signals This invention is an apparatus and method for digital processing of television like signals and in particular the use of oversampling and interpolation to achieve improved resolution of the digital version of such signals as compared to a digital version obtained by... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068171 | High speed for digital video Disclosed are various embodiments for displaying pictures at high speed. In one embodiment, a system includes a buffer for storing parameters associated with a predetermined number of the pictures during a video display period. The system further includes a video de... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8040432 | Information processing equipment, method, provision system and computer program product that synthesizes content by adopting a mean value Disclosed are information processing equipment and an information processing method, a provision system and method, and a program that are intended to readily produce a content of higher quality, wherein, an acquisition unit acquires an interpolative content with wh... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040433 | Video output apparatus, control method thereof, and video device A video output apparatus includes a video output unit which outputs a video signal while switching the format of the video signal between a first format and a second format for expressing color differently. The video output apparatus also includes a mute signal gene... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035739 | Transmission system In one aspect a transmission system with a transmitter which can be connected to a video source and a receiver linked to the transmitter via at least four circuit pairs, to which receiver a playback device can be connected is provided. Data is usually exchanged digi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7999876 | Pull-down detection apparatus and pull-down detection method A pull-down detection apparatus includes a pixel comparator at least performing pixel comparison between a subsequent field and a present field and horizontal pixel comparison in the subsequent field and the present field to determine a presence of a pixel change be... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7956927 | Video signal converter and video display device A video signal converter has a target pixel setting unit which sets up a position of a target pixel of an input video signal, a position parameter feeding unit which supplies a position parameter depending on the position of the target pixel set by the target pixel ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948556 | Electronic apparatus and display control method According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: a detection unit configured to detect a start of a reproducing of a motion picture to be displayed on a display unit; a change unit configured to change a refresh r... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7929053 | Waveform generator and related method thereof The invention relates to a waveform generator and the related method thereof for generating a second image data according to a first image data, wherein the first image data and the second image data correspond to different signal formats. The waveform generator inc... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911533 | Method and apparatus for processing information, storage medium, and program In a television set, image quality is adjusted in accordance with parameters calculated on the basis of adjustment values used in the past, depending on a feature of an image and an environmental status. A weight calculator determines a weight depending on the manne... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907208 | Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method for signal conversion According to an aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus configured to be connected to a conversion adaptor having a video input connector and a video output connector, the apparatus including: a video output port complying with the first standar... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903173 | Moving image display device and method for moving image display The synthesizing circuit inputs signals representing the brightness coefficient K2 and the brightness coefficient K3 from the multiplexer, and inputs the overscanned frame image data D1 in pixel units from the first latch circuit. When the start... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903172 | System and method for video processing A video processing apparatus can receive video at two different rates, which may be High Definition video and Standard Definition Video. The input video is stored and read into a processor at a fixed internal rate for processing at that rate. Processed video is outp... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7881588 | Image reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus includes: a reproducing unit for reproducing, from a recording medium on which main image for normal reproduction data and specific reproduction image data made up of a plurality of blocks each including first data and second data are recorde... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868947 | Moving image display device and method for moving image display In the moving image display device of the invention, a synthesis circuit inputs signals representing specified values of pixel rate factors R2 and R3 from a pixel rate factor specification circuit, while inputting overscanned frame image data D1... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852404 | Information signal processor, method for processing information signal, image signal processor and image display apparatus using the same, coefficient seed data production device used in the same, method for producing coefficient seed data set and information-providing medium An information signal processor that is well suitable for use in conversion of an SD signal into an HD signal. The pixel data set corresponding to an objective position in the HD signal is extracted selectively from the SD signal. Class CL to which pixel data set of... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843508 | Method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium A method for converting video information from an incoming format to an outgoing format using a process free from one or more intermediary files. The method includes receiving video information in a first format and receiving a desired output media format based upon... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839452 | Image display device in digital TV Disclosed is an image display device in a digital TV that is capable of carrying out the conversion into various kinds of resolution by using single bit map data in the digital TV. The image display device includes: a data processing part for executing bit map conve... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7800690 | Low noise encoding and decoding apparatus and method An adaptive digital image processor precedes an MPEG2 encoder. The processor receives a high definition video signal intended for broadcast or storage, and adaptively low-pass filters the signal. The signal is subjected to low-pass two-dimensional filtering to elimi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800691 | Video signal processing apparatus, method of processing video signal, program for processing video signal, and recording medium having the program recorded therein A video signal processing apparatus generates a plurality of subframes from each frame of an input video signal to generate an output video signal having a frame frequency higher than the frame frequency of the input video signal. The output video signal also has a ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796189 | 2-2 pulldown signal detection device and a 2-2 pulldown signal detection method According to one embodiment, when portions that should be “strong” are decided not to be “weak” on the 2-2 pulldown pattern of an inter-field correlation, if conditions are not established in which the correlation between the current field and the field befo... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7773150 | Information signal processor, method for processing information signal, image signal processor and image display apparatus using the same, coefficient seed data production device used in the same, method for producing coefficient seed data set, coefficient data production device, method for producing coefficient data set, and information-providing medium An apparatus for use in conversion of an SD signal into an HD signal. The pixel data sets of a tap corresponding to an objective position in the HD signal are extracted selectively from the SD signal. Class CL to which pixel data set of the objective position belong... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7750973 | Image pickup apparatus with frame rate conversion information output A pickup 1 generates a video signal based on an arbitrarily set frame rate. A frame rate converter 2 converts a frame rate of the video signal output from the pickup 1 into a predetermined frame rate. Frame rate conversion information output uni... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746407 | Apparatus and method for storing data in a digital broadcasting receiver Embodiments of an apparatus and a method for storing data in a digital broadcasting receiver can convert received digital TV broadcasting data into data of another format before being stored. In one embodiment, redundancy data of the digital TV broadcasting data can... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738037 | Method and apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts from video A method and apparatus for detecting and correcting motion artifacts in interlaced video signal converted for progressive video display. A correction is applied where interlaced video material is determined to originate from film source, thereby having been converte... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738038 | Content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate convert... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733419 | Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor Video filtering using a programmable graphics processor is described. The programmable graphics processor may be programmed to complete a plurality of video filtering operations in a single pass through a fragment-processing pipeline within the programmable graphics... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728908 | Pull-down signal detecting apparatus, pull-down signal detecting method, and interlace-progressive converter According to the invention, a pull-down signal detecting apparatus includes: an interfield motion detecting module configured to determine whether or not an interfield motion between a first field signal and a second field signal exists by comparing a first counted ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7728907 | Method and system for MPEG chroma de-interlacing A method (300) of converting interlaced Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video signals to progressive video signals can include receiving an interlaced video signal representing a luma component specifying luma lines and a chroma component specifying chrom... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7719614 | Apparatus and method for converting frame rate without external memory in display system In an apparatus and method for converting the frame rate of an image signal in a display system without an external memory, the display system and method are capable of down converting the frame rate of an image signal using a frame rate conversion unit without an e... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710498 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program A motion vector detection section detects a motion vector by using an image that is made up of multiple pixels and acquired by an image sensor having time integration effects. A time resolution creation section generates an image that has a higher time resolution by... | 05/04/2010 |
