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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7839453 | Movement compensation An image data processor for generating driving image data for operating an image display device, including: an image memory; a write-in control section for sequentially writing-in plural frame image data having a predetermined frame rate to the image memory; a read-... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7430015 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, picture data storage medium and computer program In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally contin... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7425990 | Motion correction device and method To realize a motion compensation device capable of more appropriately compensating the movement of a video signal subjected to double-speed conversion. A motion vector between an image of a current field in a double-speed-converted video signal and an image of a ref... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7397503 | Systems and methods for reducing artifacts caused by illuminant flicker Methods for reducing artifacts caused by illuminant flicker are provided. One such method comprises: providing pixel circuits; and operating the pixel circuits in a bi-directional mode during which first information corresponding to a scene is acquired in forward ro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389318 | Data processor capable of preventing data overflows and underflows A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7362374 | Video interlacing using object motion estimation One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each segment are determined though object motion estimation. Interpolated ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356081 | Bidirectionally predicted pictures or video object planes for efficient and flexible video coding A method is provided for decoding a bit stream representing an image that has been encoded. The method includes the steps of: performing an entropy decoding of the bit stream to form a plurality of transform coefficients and a plurality of motion vectors; performing... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352708 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. A method for determining a path to a senior border... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339557 | Display apparatus A display apparatus has a display unit having a matrix of multiple pixels, a divider to divide a field of a digital input video signal to be supplied to the display unit into a specific number of subfields, a memory storing a look-up table to be used by the divider ... | 03/04/2008 |
| RE40074 | Reduced television display flicker and perceived line structure with low horizontal scan rates An interlaced television signal is derived from an interlaced 625 line, nominally 50 Hz field rate television signal, the derived television signal having perceived reduced line structure and reduce flicker. The field rate and the number of lines of the derived tele... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327397 | Image processing with pixel interpolation The present invention provides an image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof which shifts positions of each detected pixel in image signals generated by performing double-speed conversion, wherein a difference value in pixel signal level between a detect... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327333 | Method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel A method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel, based on an input phase alternation line (PAL) video signal of 50 Hz. Video signal data include successive first and second sub-field groups. When the number of sub-field... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321399 | Multiplexed analog-to-digital converter arrangement A system such as an audio and/or video system includes a multiplexed analog-to-digital converter arrangement. The arrangement includes an ADC for converting first and second analog signals to first and second digital signals, respectively, and for outputting the fir... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317694 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method is disclosed for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus. The method comprises the acts of determining whether the node has a connection to a Legacy link layer; if the node determines that it has a connection to a Legacy link layer, then... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315332 | Video and text display with reduced text flicker A display apparatus comprises a signal converter (SC) which converts input text information (IT) and interlaced input video information (IV) with a number of video lines (Li) in a video field (Fi) into a display signal (DS) which comprises display text (Ti) and disp... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310104 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7283174 | Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method and video source determining method There is provided a video signal processing apparatus that makes it possible to realize a favorable display of pictures by increasing the detection accuracy of the video source of an input video signal and by using an appropriate scanning method for an output video ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280153 | Displaying data on lower resolution displays Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display. The conversion may be done in a way that preserves the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280491 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method is disclosed for determining a path to a senior border node comprising the acts of: determining whether a B PHY has received a Self-ID packet without... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280490 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method is disclosed for determining a path to a senior border during the Self-ID process in a full-duplex communications system having at leas... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280154 | Interpolative interleaving of video images A video processing system is presented that interleaves video data. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, data from a first field is placed in a frame and is augmented with pixel values in adjacent alternate rows of the frame with pixel value... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266617 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. The method determines whether a connected node is a border node and forwards isochronous and asynchronous requests if the node is not a border node. If the node is a border node, ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259796 | System and method for rapidly scaling and filtering video data This invention relates generally to hardware for scaling and filtering video data and more specifically to algorithms and techniques for accelerating scaling and filtering operations on digital video data. The hardware is designed so that scaling and filtering opera... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7239327 | Method of processing an image for display and system of same A method for processing a digital signal to enhance the resolution is disclosed. An embodiment provides for a method of processing an image for display on a display having sub-pixel display capability. The method first maps a plurality sub-pixels of the display to c... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236204 | System and method for rendering graphics and video on a display A method for properly rendering various types of graphical and video content is disclosed comprising: determining whether a display on which the content is to be displayed is a progressive or an interlaced display; for a progressive display, de-interlacing any inter... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227581 | Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular for large area flicker effect reduction Plasma Display Panels (PDP) are becoming more and more interesting for TV technology. Due to the larger size of PDPs, with larger viewing angle the large area flicker effect will become more serious in the future, in particular when handling 50 Hz video standards. T... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227579 | Light modulation remover The quality of recorded images with for example a high speed camera can be detoriated by light modulation which is a consequence of for example gas-discharge lamps running at a lower frequency with respect to the camera. A camera according to the invention pr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221404 | Video signal processing method and device To enable a satisfactory suppression of overemphasized component after converting the number of scanning lines of video signal, when the video signal is converted in the number of scanning lines and a high-frequency component at least in a vertical direction of the ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221335 | Image display method and device for plasma display panel Disclosed is a PDP image display method and device for dividing an image of each frame displayed on a PDP corresponding to an input video signal into subfields, each subfield corresponding to a bit that represents one of a plurality of luminance weights, combining l... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7194034 | Method and device for detecting reliability of a field of movement vectors A method of detecting the reliability of a field of movement vectors of one image in a sequence of video images. The method includes a stage of calculating a stability parameter, Det_Stab(t), for the field. The parameter is based on a comparison (4), over two... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184098 | Cyclic data signal averaging system and method for use in video display systems A system and method for reducing periodic intensity variation in a video image includes applying input signals representing video image data to multiple circuit components by sequentially shifting the input signals through the circuit components to produce output si... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176930 | Reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling. In an embodiment of the invention, a frame buffer for a interlaced display is filled. Initially, a first... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7142223 | Mixed 2D and 3D de-interlacer A de-interlacing methodology generates frames from interlaced video signals by incorporating data from multiple fields into an interpolation-based de-interlacing process. Pixels directly above and below a blank pixel location and pixels immediately before and after ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142729 | System and method of scaling images using adaptive nearest neighbor A method for interpolating a target pixel from a plurality of source pixels in a high contrast image. The method comprises the following steps. A window of the plurality of source pixels is examined and compared with a plurality of predefined conditions for determin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142249 | Interpolating a pixel from an intermediate line of a field The invention relates to a method for interpolating a pixel from an intermediate line of a first field of a sequence of interlaced fields. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142695 | Image qualification for optical navigation sensor An image qualification method. A movements-determining method utilizes the image qualification, the image qualification method of which requires only an image frame to determine if the image frame is qualified. Thus, the image qualification proceeds in real time. Th... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139022 | Edge enhancer for RGB-Beyer to YUV 4:2:0 converter with sharpened-Y feedback to U, V transformer Red, Green, Blue (RGB) pixels in a Beyer pattern are converted to YUV pixels by a converter. The converter does not interpolate RGB pixels to fill in missing RGB color values but instead performs interpolation during conversion to YUV. An edge-enhancement filter is ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139007 | Gradation display method capable of effectively decreasing flickers and gradation display The present invention provides a gray scale display method and apparatus that can be used with a large screen plasma display panel to perform illumination in a binary manner while substantially controlling flicker effects. The gray scale can be displayed by combinin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7119853 | Method of eliminating flicker on an interlaced monitor Thin horizontal lines and edges are vulnerable to flickering on an interlaced monitor. To reduce flickering filtering is adaptively applied to the pixels of lines or edges to reduce the flicker energy or contrast of the pixel to a level less than a threshold energy ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119774 | Reducing sparkle artifacts with low brightness filtering A video signal is decomposed into a higher brightness level signal and a lower brightness level signal. The threshold between higher and lower brightness levels is adjustable and related to the transition between lower and higher gain portions of the gamma table for... | 10/10/2006 |
