Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a (2i−1)th row and a (2i)th row of intermediate data respectively bas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7327373 | 3D dither algorithm A four-time resolution refinement of 3D-dither algorithm is provided in this present invention. A 4×2 pixel-block is treated as an observed unit in this present invention, which includes two 2×2 pixel-blocks. In order to eliminate moving lines and dithered edges, ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7193657 | Video signal processing apparatus and integrated circuit Disclosed is a video signal processing apparatus comprising a plurality of line memories to which in sequence input video signal data is written on a line-by-line basis; a timing controller for controlling a timing to write video signal data to the plurality of line... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6965414 | Apparatus for detecting telecine conversion method of video signal A telecine conversion method detecting apparatus which determines that an input video signal is a telecine converted video signal generated from a movie film in accordance with a 2-3 pull-down method when detecting that an inter-frame difference accumulated value of... | 11/15/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6804303 | Apparatus and method for increasing definition of digital television An apparatus and method for improving picture quality of a digital television is disclosed in which a picture image motion adaptive interpolation process is used when an interlaced picture is converted to a progressive picture, thereby providing optimal picture qual... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6636187 | Display and method of driving the display capable of reducing current and power consumption without deteriorating quality of displayed images A display has a panel, and first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes define a matrix of cells on the panel. The second electrodes, which correspond to lines of the cells, are scanned to select the cell lines one by one. The first electr... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6580829 | Detecting and coding flash frames in video data Flash frames are detected in video streams, for example, by looking for short sequences of one or more frames (or, to be more general, pictures) in which the frames within the sequence are not well-correlated to the frames that immediately precede and fol... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6442303 | Method and device for generating display frames from a sequence of source frames through synthesizing or more intermediate frames exclusively from an immediately preceding source frame For raising a frame rate, first a sequence of source frames is received at a source frame rate. For a pair of immediately adjacent source frames of this sequence, one or more intermediate frames are synthesized through a geometrical transform. In particul... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6259481 | Frame to field converter A frame to field converter includes a converter memory and an address generator. The address generator is arranged to repetitively generate a set of line selecting address sequences and to sequentially apply the addresses of successive ones of the line se... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5835152 | Method of converting 4:2:0p/4:2:2p progressive scan data and converter A method for converting 4:2:0p serial data containing a first line multiplexing luminance data and color difference data and a second line multiplexing only luminance data in pairs into 4:2:2 interlaced data comprising steps of: demultiplexing 4:2:0p data... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5798948 | Method and apparatus for video filtering A method and apparatus for video filtering filters video frames by determining a set of frames to be used to generate a single filtered frame. This set of frames is then combined to generate a single combined image. In one embodiment, proportions of the l... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5444711 | HDTV signal transmssion apparatus An HDTV signal transmission system for sending a 10-bit-parallel YPbPr-format HDTV signal converted to ten C4 containers, and further to the SDH (a new synchronous digital network) STM-16 frame for transmission based on CCITT recommendations. The system i... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5422683 | Image display and pick-up apparatus An image pick-up and projection apparatus comprising a projection unit (14), a pick-up unit (11) and a projection screen (9) switchable between a transmissive state and a diffusing state. By arranging an array (15) of elongated prismatic elements on the f... | 06/06/1995 |
| 4967264 | Color sequential optical offset image sampling system The system of the present invention increases the resolution (number of picture elements or pixels) of an image that may be formed from an image sensor without increasing the resolution of the sensor. The system operates upon a color image beam using a se... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4780756 | Apparatus for producing a hard copy of a color picture from either a field or a frame of luminance and line-sequential color difference video signals A hard copy of a picture is produced from a single field of video signals representing the picture. A single field of luminance and line-sequential color difference video signals representing a picture is entered to a signal converter to be converted into... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4758900 | Field/frame conversion method for magnetic picture recording with demodulation, interpolation and de-emphasis after conversion A field/frame signal conversion method in a magnetic picture recording for use in an electronic still camera and the like is disclosed which prevents the lowering of a SN ratio of a field signal and the occurrence of flicker caused by delaying the field s... | 07/19/1988 |
| 3969763 | Color television camera provided with a pick-up device and a color filter placed in front thereof A field-sequential color television camera provided with a pick-up device formed with a number of read strips to be read simultaneously along and in front of which filter strips of a color filter move. An output of the pick-up device supplying output sign... | 07/13/1976 |
