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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7375731 | Video mining using unsupervised clustering of video content A method mines unknown content of a video by first selecting one or more low-level features of the video. For each selected feature, or combination of features, time series data is generated. The time series data is then self-correlated to identify similar segments ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7336318 | Synthetic insertion of clear codes during video program changes An apparatus and method for facilitating program changes. The apparatus and method include a controller for detecting a change program request and for outputting change event data when a change event is detected. A non-active video information replacement module is ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7317475 | Recording/playback apparatus with telephone and its control method, video camera with telephone and its control method, image communication apparatus, and storage medium This invention has as its object to appropriately inform the user of reception of an incoming call in accordance with the operation mode of a video camera upon arrival of call. To achieve this object, an apparatus has a telephone and video camera in a single housing... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304685 | Device and method for modifying video image of display apparatus A device and method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus method, for efficiently modifying a size and aspect ratio of a video image, is disclosed. The device includes an on-screen display (OSD) generator providing an on-screen display (OSD) on a displa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283570 | Receiving apparatus for digital broadcasting signal and receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus thereof In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracte... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268820 | Video signal conversion apparatus delivering enhanced display quality for video signals from film and video sources A video signal conversion apparatus which can enhance display qualities for video signals of both film source and video source. The conversion apparatus includes an input signal discrimination unit which discriminates the sort and signal supply source of an input vi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7250979 | Format converting apparatus and method A format converting apparatus and method for performing a resolution conversion, frame rate conversion, scanning method conversion, aspect ratio conversion, chroma format conversion, color space conversion, gamma correction, and geometric correction in one chip are ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248302 | Picture signal processing In a picture signal processing method, an analog picture signal (APS1, APS2) is processed (PSP) in dependence on a quality indication (QI1, Q12) relating to the analog picture signal (APS1, APS2) and received together with t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7227583 | Digital TV method for switching channel automatically A digital TV and a method of switching a channel automatically thereof provides a viewer with advance notice of an automatic channel switch using linkage descriptor information on HD broadcasting. Providing the viewer with notice of the switched channel reduces view... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7200852 | Method and apparatus for information labeling and control A method and apparatus for information labeling and control includes central station equipment which combines a program signal with content labels which separately and continuously identify the audio, video, and data content of the program signal, and user station e... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193999 | Reception system for replacing transport packets A reception system has a receiving section which receives a transport stream transmitted from a transmission system that produces and transmits the transport stream, the transport stream being produced by multiplexing compression coded contents of a program, and ele... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7154555 | Automatic deinterlacing and inverse telecine A video apparatus is provided with automatic deinterlacing and inverse telecine pre-filtering capability to automatically analyze the frames of the video to determine at least whether the video is one of telecine, non-telecine progressive and non-telecine interlaced... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151572 | Apparatus and method for processing predetermined program data An information-processing device receives and processes predetermined program data. The information-processing device includes an extracting unit for extracting image data and audio data of a program selected by a user, an obtaining unit for obtaining information re... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139031 | Automated language filter for TV receiver A method and apparatus for use in connection with home television receivers involving processing an electronic signal, including audio and video processors; the audio information, including digital representations thereof, is analyzed and modified to compare words a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123306 | Data transmitter and data receiver A data transmitter for detecting a reference time stamp for use in reproducing a system clock from a transport packet data of a first transport stream, adding the detected reference time stamp as a header information to the transport packet data, converting the tran... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123305 | Image processing apparatus and method, and recording medium Viewing of a program is enabled at optimum image quality. A correspondence table of an image signal processing parameter and a combination of TMCC information and transmission errors is stored in a RAM. A CPU reads out an image signal processing parameter correspond... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119850 | Sub picture control apparatus and method for television receiver Disclosed is a sub picture control apparatus and method for a TV that can achieve an effective viewing of the sub picture. The apparatus includes a region data extracting section (52) for extracting region data included in a broadcasting signal tuned by a sec... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106949 | Method and apparatus for the reproduction of digital data streams In DVB/MPEG transport streams, the PID specifies the assignment of the packets to the different elementary streams. For reproduction of the elementary streams, for instance by a set-top box with outputting via the screen of a television set, the packets of the desir... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7079750 | Information processing apparatus and method as well as program storage medium An information processing apparatus supplies time information by a real-time-clock (RTC) that is corrected and a correction history is recorded. When a signal representing a correct-time indication is received, a correction processing section corrects a setting time... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7057669 | Language displaying apparatus for digital TV and method for the same A language displaying apparatus for a digital TV and a method for the same notices all kinds of languages included in broadcasting signals and enables a user to recognize them and select the preferable language easily and accurately. To achieve this, the method acco... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050110 | Method and system for generating annotations video A method and system for processing video signals is disclosed. The system receives a video signal, a first audio signal containing an annotation and a second audio signal containing environmental sounds corresponding to the video signal. In one embodiment the system... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046303 | Digital broadcasting receiver operative for displaying picture characters in a non-central portion of a screen A CPU carries out such control as to display a received image on the whole of a screen even when a command to acquire program information is issued by a user. In the display of the received image on the whole of the screen in this case, an icon button meaning that a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7012648 | Image conversion method and image conversion apparatus An image conversion apparatus includes a progressive scanning converter for receiving an input image as a first interlaced scanning image having a field frequency of m (m: integer not less than 2) fields/sec, and converting the first interlaced scanning image into a... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000241 | Method and apparatus for minimizing conditional access information overhead while ensuring conditional access information reception in multi-tuner receivers A method and apparatus for receiving conditional access information (CAI) on one or more of a plurality of tuners receiving the CAI from a first tuner of the plurality of tuners is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining if the CAI is of a first typ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999129 | Image processing apparatus, method, and recording medium for controlling image quality Viewing of a program at optimum image quality is realized. A correspondence table of combinations of MPEG video encoding parameters and image signal processing parameters is stored in a RAM. A CPU reads out from the RAM an image signal processing parameter correspon... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996170 | Adaptive optimization methods, devices and appliances for the transmission of coded signals A method of transmitting blocks of data, in which, for at least one of the blocks of data, at least one parameter associated with this block of data is transmitted, the parameter representing the relative importance of the block of data associated with this paramete... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6972802 | Language filter for home TV A method and an apparatus for use in connection with home television video recording, playback, and viewing involving processing an electronic signal, including audio and video information, whereby the audio information, including digital representations thereof, is... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973258 | Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams A method and apparatus for recording digital data streams. When a digital broadcast data stream received by a set top box is transmitted through a communication interface such as an IEEE-1394 bus to a streamer, program clock references contained in the data stream b... | 12/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6965415 | EPG-conditioned letterbox-to-anamorphic conversion Designed for use with widescreen TVs or high-end TVs with a mode for accommodating anamorphic programs, an EPG client is equipped with an electronic program guide (EPG) and a letterbox-to-anamorphic converter. The EPG client evaluates EPG data to determine whether p... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961512 | Subtitle management method for digital video disk A method of processing a caption for a digital video disk (DVD) includes loading a prepared caption script of a predetermined language in a caption indicator, showing a moving picture corresponding to the caption script and ascertaining the caption generation point ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937618 | Separating device and method and signal receiving device and method A separating device and method and a signal receiving device and method are presented. The separating device and method receive plural data streams and then separate and extract at least a portion of data from the received data streams. The signal receiving device a... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937276 | Digital camera with low memory usage A digital camera has an image sensor system, a first compression system, a frame buffer, a first decompression system, and an image processing system. The image sensor system provides n pixels of initial image information. The n pixels each have m bits of intensity ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937294 | Multiplexed video signal interface signal, system and method A multiplexed video signal interface in accordance with the present invention provides a multiplexed component video signal which includes component video signals with OSD data and user-controllable contrast and video gain, along with the ability to individually con... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6924846 | Information processing apparatus, graphic processing unit, graphic processing method, storage medium, and computer program An information processing apparatus obtains a first image and display timing information of the first image via a first channel, and a second image via a second channel different from the first channel. The information processing apparatus includes a main CPU for pr... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6879347 | Method and apparatus for communicating state information using vertical blanking interval An information handling system controls a signal processing device by providing a control signal to the signal processing device. The control signal may be transmitted to the signal processing device as an infrared or R/F signal that is received and decoded by the s... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6867815 | Apparatus and method for processing additional information in television An additional information processing apparatus and method selectively processes and stores additional information contained in a TV broadcast signal according to specifications set by a user, subdivides information of the type of additional information received in r... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6833874 | Ticker tape picture-in-picture system A ticker tape PiP system that provides for viewing the ticker tape image portion from one image signal (e.g., a ticker tape image portion of a television image signal), while viewing at least a portion of an image from a different image signal (i.e., a standard tele... | 12/21/2004 |
