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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7295173 | Image display method An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of brightness of the subfield images, and displaying the arranged subfield ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7106342 | Method of controlling brightness of user-selected area for image display device A method of controlling brightness of a user-selected area on a monitor screen is disclosed. First, a starting point of a topmost line of a displayed image is determined as a new reference point. Then a line pattern being included in one of image lines of the displa... | 09/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6914637 | Method and system for video and auxiliary data transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., video, audio, and optionally also other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TM... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907536 | Integrated circuit for image pickup device A design for reducing the power dissipation in an integrated circuit for an image pickup device. Placing a circuit block (2), such as for generating a driving signal to an image pickup apparatus, in a standby state within a vertical blanking period or horizon... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6816201 | XDS enhancement system A television system and method for facilitating use of closed caption text or other information that may be included in an extended data service (XDS) system. The system includes a tuner adapted to receive a television signal, the television signal including a video... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6600515 | Pulsed leakage tagging signal A method of transmitting a leakage tagging signal includes inserting a tagging signal into a CATV television signal only during portions of the television signal in which control information is present. A method according to the present invention is a met... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6437830 | System and data format for communicating data between a video decoder and a peripheral device A communication data format conveys digital ancillary data in a vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The format employs a reference symbol including a plurality of digital pulses for indicating the start of the ancillary data and also includes a ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6351289 | Method and apparatus that generates VBI data coding waveforms An apparatus and method is provided for generating VBI data coding waveforms. The present invention utilizes a single look-up table that stores sampled values of sine waves in direct waveform synthesis for both color burst processing and VBI data coding p... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6057874 | Infrared blaster control system in cable television communication systems A system for delivering selective VCR control codes to programmable settop terminals over a CATV communication system includes a headend for storing and transmitting VCR control code information to the settop terminals and a plurality of settop terminals ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6055020 | Method and device for transmitting additional data in television channels Therefore, the object of the invention is to utilize the unused channel capacity of the television channel even more optimally for additional signals. Both on the transmitting, as well as the receiving side, the clock pulses for video and audio data to be... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5838382 | Method and apparatus for optimizing starting point for run-in clock recovery A hardware system is programmed with a vertical blanking interval (VBI) scan line run-in clock recovery function, preferably noise tolerant that optimizes the starting point for recovering the leading run-in clock of a VBI scan line by maintaining at leas... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5103309 | Display apparatus The present invention relates to a display apparatus having a large-scaled pixel number and capable of displaying a television image and the like. In the display apparatus, after data included in an effective segment of an input signal have been A/D-conve... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4599644 | Method of and apparatus for monitoring video-channel reception In order to gather information on the reception of video channels in a household or other location equipped with a television receiver, partinent data such as identification and viewing time are injected into an assigned minor area of the TV picture at th... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4423440 | Code signal reading apparatus The present invention allows code signals from a video signal to be read even though the signal is being reproduced at non-standard speed, a reference oscillator and programmable frequency divider are utilized with a time width detector and the frequency ... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4191969 | Video composite transmission system integrating encoded data channels into blanking and synchronizing signal A video composite transmission system connecting a camera and a picture receiver of a picture transmitting device and a plurality of data terminals to a video switching network via an analog two path line transmitting an analog video composite signal. In ... | 03/04/1980 |
