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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7411617 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and program In image-data recording processing performed when a video output conforms to the PAL system, a display-signal processing section receives image data having a frame rate of 30 Hz recorded in a memory, through a bus, converts the image data to image data having an NTS... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7336302 | Frame memory device and method with subsampling and read-out of stored signals at lower resolution than that of received image signals A frame memory device is employed in a digital camera, for example, to output raster-scanned digital color image signals at lower resolution than that of original image signals. The order of sequentially received original raster-scanned digital color image signals i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7206021 | Hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus and hybrid pixel interpolating method A hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus (1) has a function of converting raw image data (D1) having one color component for each pixel into pixel interpolated data in which each pixel has a plurality of color components. This hybrid pixel interpolating ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7142218 | Image display device and electronic apparatus using same, and image display method of same An image display device of the present invention is provided with a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image in accordance with an input of a chrominance signal, a sensor for sensing light characteristics of external light, and a chrominance signal conve... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7110031 | State image pickup apparatus having pixel shift layout A color shooting solid state image pickup apparatus is composed by using a solid state image pickup device having a number of color pixels disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout with distributing at least one color-type color pixels in a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7005150 | Beverage container A beverage container configured from a front and a rear surface portion, a base portion, and a pair of gusset portions. The gusset portions configure side portions of the container by being sealed to mutually confronting edge portions of the front and rear surface p... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006147 | 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... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6836294 | Method of decreasing delay through frame based format converters An apparatus converts an input video signal having a first format into an output video signal having a second format. A formatter receives the first video signal and divides each field or frame into an active video top and bottom half. Two format converters receive ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6825853 | Apparatus and method for color space conversion in video images Color space conversion from a first image definition scheme to a second image definition scheme is realized by utilizing only one step of matrix multiplication and by determining whether determined RGB values are in a valid RGB region and, if not, generating a first... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6552749 | Method and apparatus for video motion compensation, reduction and color formatting A method and apparatus for video motion compensation, power of two reduction and color format conversion is disclosed. The motion compensation engine performs the MPEG-2 functions of half pel compensation, inverse discrete cosine transform and merge. Dual... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6480545 | Architecture for multi-format video processing An architecture for multi-format video processing of both high definition and standard definition television signals has a pair of processing paths. For HDTV one path processes the luminance component signal and the other path processes an interleaved col... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6429900 | Transmission of wideband chroma signals A method of transmission of wide bandwidth chroma signals converts a component video signal having a luminance and two half-bandwidth chroma components into a 0:4:4 video signal having no luminance component and two wide bandwidth chroma components. Half ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6335734 | Color converting method In addition to linear conversion parameters V1 to V8 which are used in an interpolation calculation, non-linear conversion parameters VV1 to VV8 are calculated. Each time an input color is fetched, whether the linear conversion parameters are used or the ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6285402 | Device and method for converting scanning An input image signal is converted into a digital form in an A/D converter 6 by clock pulses 53 from VCO 4 of a PLL circuit 1. The frequency of the clock pulses 53 is fixed. After the number of scanning lines is converted in a primary processing circuit 7... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6259479 | Letterbox filter apparatus and method A method and apparatus for changing the number of scan lines in a frame of video data to produce an image represented by the video data that corresponds to a desired aspect ratio. The apparatus includes a pair of finite impulse response filters for proces... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5771074 | Method of interframe interpolation of color difference signals, and circuit arrangement for performing said method To avoid color defects in the motion-compensated luminance signal, which defects occur in non-motion-compensative time-interpolation of the color signal, a method includes the steps of generating a second color difference signal from a first color differe... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5742349 | Memory efficient video graphics subsystem with vertical filtering and scan rate conversion A graphics subsystem converts a first graphics data stream for display on a computer monitor having a first refresh rate into a second graphics data stream for a television monitor having a second, slower refresh rate. The graphics subsystem has a first m... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5221966 | Video signal production from cinefilm originated material A system for converting an input television signal that contains field sequences corresponding to frames in cine film is provided. The input signal is converted into an intermediate television signal wherein there is a direct correlation between the field... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5166780 | Apparatus for showing a digitized NTSC-encoded video An apparatus for showing a digitized NTSC-encoded video signal on an NTSC or PAL color television screen includes a system memory unit for storing the digitized video signal therein. A sync generator provides NTSC or PAL horizontal and vertical sync signa... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5159437 | Television signal converting apparatus A television signal converting apparatus for converting an arbitrary television signal into a different type television signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes an adaptive scanning line number converter for separating a video signal into a luminance s... | 10/27/1992 |
| 4631692 | RGB interface An interface for adapting an Apple™ II series computer, having only a video output suitable for driving an NTSC-type monitor to drive an RGB-type monitor. In the preferred embodiment, the interface subdivides the computer's double-density high resolutio... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4346397 | Apparatus for reproducing a video signal of one system with conversion to a video signal of another system A reproducing apparatus reproduces a video signal of a certain system having a field frequency F1 and a number N1 of horizontal scanning lines within one field period which has been recorded on a magnetic tape travelling at a speed S1 along plurality trac... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4335395 | Standards conversion of color television signals Demodulated luminance (Y) and chrominance (U, V) signals are stored in field stores 1 to m each with line outputs 1 to n. Output lines are formed by summing the producs of the line outputs with weighting coefficients which are specified for each line in t... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4283736 | Video signal reproducing apparatus for converting a video signal from a first format to a second format In a video signal reproducing apparatus for converting a first video signal having a first field frequency to a second video signal having a second field frequency, there are provided a tape scanning device which is made movable in a direction perpendicul... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4240101 | Television standards conversion Digital standards conversion from one T.V. line standard to another including a processor for synthesizing picture points from adjacent picture point information derived from video signals from at least one field and a digital persistence arrangement for ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4213143 | Color television conversion apparatus for use with a conventional domestic reproducer Color television conversion apparatus comprises mechanism adapted for moving a color television record past a pick-up device at a speed suitable for reproducing color television signals recorded thereon substantially in accordance with the field and line ... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4204220 | Dual standard video disc player Video disc player is switchable between two operating modes: (1) for playback of records of color signals of one scanning standard (15,625 Hz. line frequency; 50 Hz. field frequency) encoded in a buried subcarrier format; (2) for playback of records of co... | 05/20/1980 |
