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| 7292236 | Display driving method and display apparatus utilizing the same In order to obtain a satisfactory image by making a peak luminance of an image to be displayed large and suppressing an occurrence of unnecessary period, there is provided a display driving method for driving a display with a plurality of scanning wirings and a plur... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7139037 | Circle correction in digital low-pass filter A filter circuit is provided which has a filtered input and an unfiltered input. The filtered input passes through delay elements to coefficient circuitry. The unfiltered input passes to the coefficient circuitry without passing through the delay elements. In this m... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6680852 | Color-coding technique for slot selection in bladed systems A method of color-coding a blade and a bladed system is disclosed. The bladed system has a plurality of slots. In particular, the method facilitates selecting at least one slot for inserting therein the blade. One of a plurality of core colors is associat... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6611215 | System and related methods for processing audio content in a filter graph A method comprising identifying a sample rate of received audio content, receiving a conversion sample rate, and converting the received audio content to the received conversion sample rate. Wherein the conversion comprises utilizing a repeating sequence ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6429900 | Transmission of wideband chroma signals A method of transmission of wide bandwidth chroma signals converts a component video signal having a luminance and two half-bandwidth chroma components into a 0:4:4 video signal having no luminance component and two wide bandwidth chroma components. Half ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 5838394 | Picture storage device separates luminance signal into even number and odd number data and separates two channel color signal into former half pixels and latter half pixels A picture storage device conveniently employed in conjunction with an electronic still camera or a video camera has an input data converting unit for separating luminance signals of input color picture data having a non-interlaced data format with the sam... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5654773 | Picture storage device separates luminance signal into even number and odd number data and separates two channel color signal into former half pixels and latter half pixels A picture storage device conveniently employed in conjunction with an electronic still camera or a video camera has an input data converting unit for separating luminance signals of input color picture data having a non-interlaced data format with the sam... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5583574 | Video-data transmitter, video-data receiver, and video-data transceiver for connecting parallel video-data into serial video-data and vice versa A video data transmitter includes: chrominance-data multiplexer which multiplexes parallel data obtained by digitizing a chrominance signal Pb, which is a component signal of an analog HDTV video signal, with parallel data obtained by digitizing a chromin... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5557426 | Image information signal processing apparatus An image information signal processing apparatus for processing a first image information signal having at least a first image signal and a second image signal which is different from the first image signal, and a second image information signal having a ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5523795 | Method and apparatus for serial transmission and/or reception of nonsynchronous, multiplexed signals A method and an apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving multiplexed signals as serial data in such a manner that, even in a state where a continuous signal such as an audio digital signal is not in synchronism with another signal such as a video d... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5465158 | Video tape recorder capable of recording and reproducing wide-band chrominance signal In a video tape recorder of the color under recording type, in which a low frequency band converted carrier chrominance signal is recorded together with an FM luminance signal, another FM modulator is provided for modulating a wide band chrominance signal... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5459519 | Video images decoder architecture for implementing a 40 MS processing algorithm in high definition television A video image decoder architecture for implementing a processing algorithm in the 40-ms mode on high-resolution TV sets, of a kind adapted to handle TV signals being received on respective transmission channels (J,L), which comprises a video signal demult... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5396293 | Filter circuit with bandwidth varied as a function of bit error rate and luminance level An arrangement for enhancing an image corresponding to a television signal including a digital component includes a variable bandwidth filter and a control unit for controlling the bandwidth of the filter in response to the bit error rate (BER) of the dig... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5351090 | Video and audio signal multiplexing apparatus and separating apparatus When transmitting an audio signal by multiplexing in a synchronous period of a video signal, a buffer memory for time axis adjustment of the audio signal is controlled. The number of audio signal samples in the buffer memory is detected in every n fields ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5347315 | Modular encoder for generating a digital multiplex signal and decoder for processing such a signal A X-MAC encoder enables a plurality of components to be encoded, each having a sequence of packets, with the packets being distributed in successive bursts each occupying a predetermined fraction of a television frame line. It comprises a plurality of blo... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5327227 | De-interleaving method and apparatus for D2 MAC audio A de-interleaving system includes a generator for generating a write address for storing input audio data of a D2 MAC signal in units of packets, a generator for generating a read address for de-interleaving the stored audio data of the D2 MAC signal in u... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5208659 | Method and apparatus for independently transmitting and recapturing clock recovery burst and DC restoration signals in a MAC system The present invention is directed to improving immunity to channel distortions of multiplexed analog component television signals by independently transmitting a clock recovery burst and a DC restoration reference level during the horizontal blanking inte... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5200823 | Virtual channels for a multiplexed analog component (MAC) television system A decoder for use in a television system. The decoder includes a receiver for receiving a television signal having at least one channel. Each channel of the television signal includes video and audio components. A channel maps the channel received by the ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5191432 | Method of recording and reproducing color video signal with type codes to indicate type of chrominance signal A color video signal recording and reproducing method for recording and reproducing a color line sequential TCI signal which prevents, upon different speed reproduction, a possible displacement in hue of a reproduction color video signal. First and second... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5126835 | Method and apparatus for video signal dropout compensation Dropout is compensated in a video signal that has samples comprising respective different color information components in alternate lines and samples comprising luminance information time multiplexed with the color samples in each line. Adders (78, 82) av... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5113242 | Two-line MAC high definition television system A high definition television signal with a sequential scan with the standard number of lines per frame and double the frame frequency is processed to generate a single MAC line having a duration substantially equal to that of four sequential lines of stan... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5097320 | Encoding and decoding of MAC video signals A MAC signal encoder, for encoding a video signal into MAC format, includes vertical sub-samplers for vertically sub-sampling color difference signals of the video signal, vertical filters that vertically filter the color difference signals prior to their... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5053859 | High definition B-MAC television signal transmission system A method for encoding a high definition television signal comprising a first frequency spectrum portion for standard resolution and a second high frequency spectrum portion for high resolution consistent with the B-MAC composite signal format comprises th... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5031031 | Video signal processing apparatus A video signal processing apparatus for processing a video signal including SYNC pulses, a time-compressed color difference and luminance signals, compression factors of those signals being different from each other, the color difference signal and lumina... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5010391 | Digital video signal processing device In a digital video signal processing device, a digital filter two-dimensionally limits the bandwidth of a digital video signal which is obtained by time-base multiplexing a digital luminance signal with a digital chrominance signal for each horizontal sca... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4994899 | Frequency generation for extended bandwidth MAC color television encoding and decoding In a Multiplexed Analog Component (MAC) color television transmission system in which the MAC signal is to be converted at the receiver to a composite color television signal having a 227.5 fH color subcarrier, frequency-generation equipment re... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4979041 | High definition television system A high-definition television system in which a production signal is spatiotemporally filtered to remove frequency components and remaining components are transmitted over a channel. In various aspects, the filter produces a generally diamond-shaped freque... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4974064 | Apparatus for encoding television signals of different formats for transmission and decoding upon reception A high definition television signal having 525 lines per frame, a sequential scan, and 59.94 frames per second is encoded into a time multiplex signal for transmission. The encoder drops alternate lines, but creates line difference signals which allow rec... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4974063 | Video signal processing device In a device for processing a video signal including line sequential signals which have DC offset during a specific portion of every horizontal scanning period, the line sequential signal is rearranged into line concurrent signals on the basis of a level d... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4939572 | Video signal processing apparatus A first video signal processing apparatus for processing a video signal including first and second color difference signals transmitted line-sequentially for outputting simultaneously two fundamental color difference signal, used in SECAM system comprises... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4875105 | Video signal processing device A video signal processing device comprises a pulse generating circuit arranged to produce reading pulses for a given first period of time within one horizontal scanning period and to be in repose for the remaining second period of time; a signal processin... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4866522 | Television transmission system with multiplexed components A component television signal is transmitted as a sequence of television frames with each frame having a plurality of television lines substantially all of which have first and second time multiplexed portions. The first portion (DB) forms the data burst ... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4860310 | Duobinary encoded signal decoder A device for decoding a transmitted sequence of duobinary encoded signals, which provides as an output a sequence of binary signals which most probably matches the transmitted sequence of duobinary encoded signals, estimated as a function of the duobinary... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4852084 | Information transmission system Information signals (Y1, C1; Y2, C2: Y3, C3) relating to the same video image but each defining the image with a different accuracy are transmitted asynchronously and on a time division basis as packet sets (Y1, C1; Y21, C21; Y32, C32). In a receiving sta... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4794464 | Video time division multiplexer with plural dual port memories A video signal is time division multiplexed prior to recording using a time base compression device including a random access memory, instead of serial shift registers or the like. Large time base errors in the incoming video signal are accommodated witho... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4757498 | Method and apparatus for handling data in television signals In a receiver for a C-or D-MAC Packet television signal the bits of a pocket from the first subframe (DATA `A`) are multiplexed with the bits of a correspondingly positioned packet in the second subframe (DATA `B`) and applied to a data line of a packet b... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4748496 | Transmission and reception of television signals to produce extended definition pictures In a method of transmitting and receiving Multiplexed Analog Component (MAC) television signals by producing first chrominance component and luminance component signals representing lines of a television signal capable of reconstruction in a conventional ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4740831 | Method of reformatting color television signals by eliminating the unnecessary overscanned portions A method of reformatting color television signals is disclosed whereby chrominance and luminance components are serially arranged on a line by line basis with minimal compression of the luminance and chrominance components. This reduced compression serial... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4730209 | Circuit for converting a colour television time division multiplex signal into simultaneous signals A color television Y/U/V luminance-chrominance multiplex signal with signals which may or may not be compressed in time comprises for a television line the associated luminance information Y and half the chrominance information U or V. As a result the cir... | 03/08/1988 |
