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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7746408 | Method and system for improving the appearance of deinterlaced chroma formatted video Herein described is a system and method for improving the appearance of video by generating an improved 4:2:2 chroma. The system comprises a 4:2:2 to 4:2:0 chroma regenerator that regenerates 4:2:0 chroma given a received 4:2:2 chroma, and a 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 chroma ge... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7554603 | Video-signal-processing device and video-signal-transfer method A video-signal-processing device configured to externally transmit at least one brightness signal and at least one color-difference signal is provided. A single frame of the color-difference signal is assigned to a plurality of frames of the brightness signal so tha... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7408992 | Detection and repair of MPEG-2 chroma upconversion artifacts A method for removing MPEG-2 chroma upconversion artifacts in a video stream includes detecting a presence of artifacts in an incorrectly upsampled MPEG-2 video stream and removing the presence of artifacts resulting in an artifact free video stream. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7327405 | Systems and methods for improved video comb filtering with dynamic chroma bandwidth control The invention provides improved video comb filtering. One aspect of the invention considers detected motion of an object between a reference signal and a comparison signal in determining whether to comb and if combing is indicate, what portion of each of the signals... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7289663 | Producing an extended color gamut luminance-chrominance digital image from a captured image A method for producing an extended color gamut luminance-chrominance digital image from a captured digital image includes determining an estimate of the colors of the captured digital image of an original scene and further processing to produce an extended range out... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271850 | Method and apparatus for cross color/cross luminance suppression According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for processing an image in a video data is disclosed. The video data comprises at least a first frame and a second frame. The first frame is composed of a first even field and a first odd field, while the s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7227541 | Image display apparatus and method of determining characteristic of conversion circuitry of an image display apparatus An image display apparatus has an image display including scanning lines, modulation lines and display devices driven through the scanning lines and modulation lines, a scanning circuit for supplying a scanning signal to the scanning line, a modulating circuit for s... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218316 | Image signal processing apparatus and method and image display apparatus and method To provide a bright, high-image-quality image display apparatus, in an overlap scanning mode in which two scan-wiring lines are selected simultaneously in each horizontal scanning period, high-frequency emphasis filtering is performed on a video signal so that a gai... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206025 | Device and method for converting format in digital TV receiver Device and method for converting a format of a video signal in a digital TV receiver is provided. Format conversion can be carried out at one chip of a format converting device, inclusive of conversion of resolution, frame rate, scanning method, aspect ratio, color ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7162098 | System and method for increasing temporal and spatial capacity of systems that amplitude quantize data prior to processing A system and method for collecting relatively high resolution amplitude data with a conventional sensing device from a signal source that is sampled at a relatively low characteristic scan resolution, and then generating relatively high scan resolution, relatively l... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154557 | Joint pre-/post-processing approach for chrominance mis-alignment This invention corrects chrominance misalignment that occurs during chrominance down-sampling and up-sampling. The invention extracts a binary index from the corresponding luminance signal. The binary index enables generation of a filter window. On down-sampling the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142251 | Video input processor in multi-format video compression system A video input processor is provided to process different input video format, including RGB, RGB Bayer, YUV 4:2:2 interlaced and progressive video data. The video input processor also uses an advanced algorithm to efficiently convert video data in RGB color space to ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7129988 | Adaptive median filters for de-interlacing An adaptive intra-field algorithm to de-interlace video data uses two line memories to implement a median filter that can use multiple data points on adjacent lines of display. In a median-mode, the filter outputs the median of the input data to create the value for... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7061539 | Information signal processing device, information signal processing method, image signal processing device, image display comprising the same, and information providing medium The present invention relates to an information signal processor and the like preferable for use in the case where a SD signal is converted into a HD signal. A space class and a movement class are detected from the tap pixel data, which is selectively extracted from... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061538 | Image-information converting apparatus and method, image displaying apparatus and method, coefficient calculating apparatus and method, coefficient-data storing apparatus, apparatus and method for detecting part where picture quality is degraded, recording medium, and program The absolute value of the difference between each of the pairs of pixel values of a target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the target pixel, a pixel that is left-adjacent to the target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the left-adjacent pixel, the le... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057664 | Method and system for converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video using a color edge detection scheme Aspects of the invention for converting interlace formatted video to progressive scan video, may include a color edge detector block (306) adapted to determined edges in interlaced formatted video. A threshold and gain processor block (308) coupled to ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6992727 | Method for detecting video frame types with adaptive thresholds A method for detecting dynamic video pixels by using adaptive counter threshold values according to field difference value of the frame in the video, thereby to determine whether the frame is an interlaced frame or a progressive frame and to eliminate incorrect judg... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6970206 | Method for deinterlacing interlaced video by a graphics processor A method for deinterlacing interlaced video using a graphics processor includes receiving at least one instruction for a 2D/3D engine to facilitate creation of an adaptively deinterlaced frame image from at least a first interlaced field. The method also includes pe... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961094 | Image-signal processing apparatus and method An image signal output from a first delay circuit is taken out from an image interpolation filter and from a second delay circuit corresponding to an image-quality adjustment filter, and an image signal selected by a first selector is output through a second selecto... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950143 | Motion compensated de-interlacing in video signal processing A processing circuit for motion compensated de-interlacing of video signals, having a line memory 21, a de-interlacing circuit 22, a frame memory 24, and a cache memory 25, further includes a pixel mixer 29 interposed between the c... | 09/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6930729 | Apparatus and method for deleting sawtooth wave An apparatus and method for processing a video signal, and particularly, an apparatus and method for deleting a sawtooth wave are provided in which a sawtooth wave component is detected and with consideration of direction the sawtooth wave is deleted. The sawtooth w... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6914638 | Three-dimensional enhancement processing for television broadcasting signals A method and an apparatus of decoding a television broadcasting signal are disclosed. In one embodiment, an improved video decoder converts the video signal into a digitized video signal. The improved video decoder then separates luminance information and chrominanc... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6903371 | Thin film transistor and display using the same An amorphous silicon film is laser irradiated a plural number of times to make the film composed of a plurality of crystal grains while suppressing the formation of protrusions at the boundaries of the adjoining grains to realize a polycrystalline silicon thin film ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6724430 | Sampling frequency converter, sampling frequency conversion method, video signal processor, and video signal processing method A DD converter circuit 109 for interpolating a digital video signal which is locked to a 14.3-MHz burst clock to convert the sampling data so as to be locked to a 13.5-NHz free-run clock, and a frame memory circuit 110 for writing a digital video signa... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6717987 | Video compression method and apparatus employing error generation and error compression A method and apparatus compresses digital information based on an interpolation function such as used by a graphic engine scaler. Luma error information is determined based on the interpolation function and original luma data. A luma error quantizer quantizes the lu... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6621525 | Double tapered roller of scroll thrust bearing In double tapered rollers of a thrust scroll bearing, a structure free from generation of edge load at both ends of a section straight line on conical or tapered surfaces, and appropriate in contact stress with the bearing race is presented. To be used as... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6591010 | System and method for image detection and qualification A method and a system employing the method is disclosed for detecting and qualifying a portion of a digital image stored in a computer-readable memory with respect to a reference digital image. The method and system accesses video memory of a video contro... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6539109 | Imaging system An imaging system includes an imager outputting an analog green signal, an analog blue signal, and an analog red signal in a predetermined progressive-scanning format. The analog green, blue, and red signals are converted into parallel-form digital green,... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6529244 | Digital video decode system with OSD processor for converting graphics data in 4:4:4 format to 4:2:2 format by mathematically combining chrominance values An on-screen display processor for a digital video signal processing system is disclosed. The OSD processor includes logic for converting a graphics bitmap in 4:4:4 format to graphics image words in 4:2:2 format for blending with video image words in a bl... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6519289 | Method and apparatus for compensation of luminance defects caused by chrominance signal processing In analogue television systems, it is known to compensate for the receiver-end luminance defects which are caused by transmitter-end low-pass filtering of the gamma-predistorted chrominance signals, with the aid of transmitter-end correction signals. This... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6501507 | Multimode interpolation filter as for a TV receiver A multimode scan converter includes a delay element (33) for delaying one horizontal line of video signal and selectively re-displaying that line. A multiplexer (30) is arranged to selectively provide either luminance signal or chrominance signal to the d... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6330076 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus has a data conversion unit which converts RGB image data of a document to luminance component and chromaticity component, an optimization process unit which converts the distribution state of the luminance component data and ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6307592 | Apparatus for converting the format of video signals based on frequency and composition ratio A video signal format converting apparatus is provided for doubling a horizontal/vertical frequency, and converting the composition ratio of a luminance signal and color-difference signals, by which both horizontal/vertical frequency-converted and frequen... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6266101 | Y/C separator In a color signal generating circuit, color signals are generated based on an image signal of an odd field of an interlace scanning and the color signals are stored. A luminance signal generating circuit generates a luminance signal based on the image sig... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6266093 | Color video camera method and system A method for generating interlaced video signals representative of color images of a scene includes the following steps: deriving a progressively scanned luminance signal representative of the scene at a first frame rate; deriving interlaced scanned color... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6262771 | Method and apparatus for converting picture signal, and recording and reproducing apparatus A picture signal includes a luminance signal and a color signal. A first predetermined number of sample points of the luminance signal are located on every actual scanning line. A second predetermined number of sample points of the color signal are locate... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6262773 | System for conversion of interlaced video to progressive video using edge correlation A system processes an image containing a first line and a second line, where the first and second lines includes a plurality of pixels, to generate an interpolated line. The system selects a first and second set of pixels from the lines and generates a fi... | 07/17/2001 |
