Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154655 | Processing high definition video data Video data is processed. A first high definition program stream is received that includes a first high definition video stream component. A first standard definition program stream is derived from the high definition program stream. A second standard definition is r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139154 | Apparatus and method for 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. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8089557 | Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method and video display apparatus A video signal processing apparatus, for achieving high resolution, with using a small number of frames, as an input videos signal, comprises: an input unit, into which a video frame is inputted; and a resolution converter unit for obtaining an output video frame by... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085346 | Filter module for a video decoding system Systems and methods are disclosed for filter modules in a video display system or network. One embodiment relates to a method for operating a filter module in a video display network comprising determining a picture type, display type and operation of the display ne... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7944504 | Apparatus for interpolating scanning lines A scanning line interpolating apparatus has a scanning line interpolating unit for converting an inputted interlaced scanning picture to a progressive scanning picture by using motion compensation, a motion vector search device that searches for a motion vector for ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7893994 | Motion adaptive directional deinterlacing in a video decoder Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for motion adaptive directional deinterlacing. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for interpolating a pixel for a pixel position. The method comprises receiving a plurality of pixels above the pixe... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7864247 | Method and apparatus for image scaling A source image with an input vertical resolution and an input horizontal resolution is received using an input clock signal. An intermediate image with an output vertical resolution and the input horizontal resolution is generated using an intermediate clock signal ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852406 | Processing high definition video data Video data is processed. A first high definition program stream is received that includes a first high definition video stream component. A first standard definition program stream is derived from the high definition program stream. A second standard definition is r... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7755701 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a down-converter and an image converter converting first image data into higher quality second image data. The image converter includes a prediction tap extracting unit extracting, as prediction taps, a plurality of pixels used... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7646430 | Display system having improved multiple modes for displaying image data from multiple input source formats Systems and methods are herein given to effect a multiple mode display system that may accept multiple input image data formats and output several possible image data format. In a first embodiment, an image processing system comprises: an input that receives a plura... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636125 | Filter module for a video decoding system Systems and methods are disclosed for filter modules in a video display system or network. One embodiment relates to a method for operating a filter module in a video display network comprising determining a picture type, display type and operation of the display ne... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7609324 | Signal processing apparatus and method for generating a corrected image having a large number of pixels from an image having a lesser number of pixels, and recording medium having a program recorded thereon for performing such method A signal processing apparatus includes a generator operable to generate a second image signal by converting a first image signal into the second image signal; a calculation unit operable to calculate a correction amount based on an evaluation of the second image sig... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7489361 | Pixel interpolaton apparatus and method with discrimination of similarity between a discrimination block and a plurality of reference blocks The invention provides a pixel interpolating method including a step of discriminating, based on an input image signal, a similarity of a discrimination block constituted of plural pixels, and a reference block constituted of plural pixels, positioned close to the d... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483079 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, storage medium, and program A system and method in which a sequence of motion images including a scene of interest is zoomed up and displayed smoothly at a specified arbitrary playback speed. Pixel data of taps corresponding to each pixel of interest in each unit of pixel block of an output im... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7440029 | Apparatus and method for processing informational signal Converting circuits convert the values of multiple items of SD pixel data (pixel value) as class tap data to luminance values. The converting circuits convert pixel values to luminance values based on a correspondence relation between a value of pixel data in an ima... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440030 | Method and apparatus for interlaced display of progressive video content A method is provided for displaying progressive video content on an interlaced display device. The method comprises vertically phase shifting video lines of the progressive video content to correctly position the video lines with respect to a video field of the inte... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440032 | Block mode adaptive motion compensation The present invention relates to a motion compensated image process taking local characteristics of image data into account. Image data included in a single image may stem from different video sources. In order to take specific motion phase into account, the motion ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440033 | Vector based motion compensation at image borders The present invention relates to an improved interpolation based on motion compensation. In order to avoid interpolation artifacts in proximity to the image borders, in particular in letterbox type images, each motion compensated image data is subjected to a positio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423691 | Method of low latency interlace to progressive video format conversion The invention includes a method for converting from an interlace scan image to a progressive scan image. Interpolated rows of pixels, lying between successive rows of the interlace scan image, are generated based upon the received interlace scan rows. The method det... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403235 | Integrated circuit and information signal processing apparatus having multiple processing portions An image signal processing apparatus having three processing portions. A first processing portion generates a motion class that corresponds to a target position in an output image signal based on an input image signal. A second portion generates a space class corres... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403234 | Method for detecting bisection pattern in deinterlacing A method for detecting the Bisection pattern for use in conjunction with the deinterlacing is to improve low angle direction detection capability. A method of Bisection pattern detection operates in an interlaced video containing both top and bottom fields. For each... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391476 | Method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a field A method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a first field in a sequence of interlaced fields includes selecting at least one first pixel and one second pixel from scan lines of the first field adjacent the interline, and a third pixel from a sec... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375764 | Method and system for VFC memory management A method for managing vertical format converter line memories includes writing a number of first input video lines into the VFC line memories, writing an additional video line into the VFC line memories, and reading respective pixels of the first input video lines a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372506 | Method and apparatus to display on-screen display user-guide information about status of external device A method and apparatus to display user-guide on-screen display information about a status of an external device on a display device connected with the external device may include attempting to detect a signal from the external device when the display device is in an... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365801 | Apparatus and method for processing signal A motion vector detection portion detects a motion vector based on an input image signal and an image signal of previous field that is one field before the input signal. A motion compensation portion performs motion compensation on the image signal of previous field... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362377 | Spatio-temporal adaptive video de-interlacing A method includes storing a current field of a digital video signal. The method further includes storing a preceding field that immediately precedes the current field in the digital video signal, and storing a succeeding field that immediately succeeds the current f... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362376 | Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion A method for deinterlacing a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of primary scores by searching along a plurality of primary angles for an edge in the picture proximate a location interlaced with a field of the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362375 | Scanning conversion apparatus and method In the scanning conversion apparatus, a first converter converts input interlaced scan data into progressive scan data, and a second converter converting the progressive scan data output from the first converter to interlaced scan data. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359452 | Systems and methods for designing a high-precision narrowband digital filter for use in a communications system with high spectral efficiency Systems and methods for transmitting information at very high data rates through narrowband communication channels are provided. The systems and methods involve modulating a message signal with a novel return-to-zero, abrupt phase modulation technique and filtering ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355652 | Inverse tracking over two different clock domains A video decoder in which the video source clock is generated entirely in the digital domain is disclosed herein. By creating a virtual version of the source clock in a numeric oscillator, the amount of noise in the system is substantially reduced. Furthermore, by tr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355650 | Upconversion with improved diagonal enhancement Interlaced video upconverted to progressive video has improved diagonal enhancement. A plurality of averages and differences are determined from different pixels near a given output pixel, including: a vertical average, first and second left diagonal averages, first... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350157 | Filtering by broadcast or recording quality within an electronic program guide A memory associates a media quality indicator with each media program in a set of media programs. A filter selects from the set those media programs having at least a specified media quality. A display interface displays a list of the selected media programs in an e... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349029 | Method and apparatus for de-interlacing interlaced video fields originating from a progressive video source A method for de-interlacing an interlaced video signal includes generating a per-field motion pattern set for a subject video field, where the motion pattern set comprises a same-parity motion pattern and an opposite-parity motion pattern pair, providing a plurality... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349030 | Segment buffer loading in a deinterlacer A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and/or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion perfor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345708 | Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion A method for deinterlacing a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) determining a protection condition by performing a static check on the picture in a region around a location interlaced with a first field of the picture, (B) calculati... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336316 | De-interlacing of video data A method and apparatus are provided for deriving a progressive scan image from an interlaced image. In this, for each pixel to be inserted in the field from the interlaced image a difference value is derived from each pair of a set of symmetrically opposed pixels wi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336286 | Method of and an apparatus for processing images In an image processing apparatus to conduct an on-screen display operation, the bus band of an image memory is minimized. The apparatus includes an image memory including a first memory area to store a first image data group of a first image for a background and a s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324709 | Method and apparatus for two-dimensional image scaling An output pixel datum is produced from input pixel data by a method wherein the brightness levels of several input pixels closely associated coordinate-wise with the output pixel, are examined to determine whether a relatively less complex graphics-optimized scaling... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317828 | Color image processing apparatus with background control In an image processing apparatus, a compression processor compresses a color image data, a storage device stores the compressed data, and an expansion processor expands the data read from the storage device. A first background controller controls background of the c... | 01/08/2008 |
