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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7663698 | Genlock device having log and alarm functions A genlock device comprises: means (31) for inputting an external reference signal; means (32,33,34,36,39,40,41,42,44) for generating a master reference clock signal synchronized in phase with the external reference signal; and means (37) for sto... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7511764 | Digital camera synchronization The present invention provides a synchronization system comprising a base unit and at least one video camera. The base unit includes a master time-base adapted to set a time period that samples a frame of video data, a memory, and a base unit communications transcei... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7376151 | Recording and producing an MPEG information signal on/from a record carrier A method of transmitting timing critical data via an asynchronous channel without changing any datum to be transmitted. The timing critical data can be an MPEG transport stream. The asynchronous channel can be a computer or telephone network, a digital storage media... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359005 | Method and system for component sync detection and alignment In a method and system for component sync detection and alignment, the Y/G channel is used as a master channel from which the vertical and the horizontal syncs are detected by a master sync generator. The master sync generator determines a fast and slow slice level ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7312793 | Liquid crystal display controller In a liquid crystal television, a display controller prevents burning of a liquid crystal panel due to irregularity in a synchronization signal. A counter of a liquid crystal display controller detects a period of a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical s... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295248 | External synchronous signal generating circuit and phase difference measuring circuit An external synchronous signal circuit comprises: means for measuring a phase difference between the external frame synchronous signal (FRM_SYNC) and the frame synchronous signal (FRM) of the digital video signal; means for generating a signal (EXT_H) having the sam... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277133 | Adjusting pixel clock A pixel clock frequency is adjusted in response to periodically monitoring the relative positions between a video signal to be displayed and a video signal captured. Image shear of the display signal may be avoided quickly. Adjustments are made to the color burst si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274406 | Equilibrium based vertical sync phase lock loop for video decoder The present invention discloses a PLL (90), which may be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, which comprises a sync detector (92) adapted to output a phase error (152), a vertical sync discrete time osci... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268827 | Circuit for transferring a timing signal between circuits having different clock frequencies A timing signal transferring circuit (10) that may be arranged to stably transfer a timing signal (S1) between two video signal processing circuits that may operate at different clock frequencies has been disclosed. A first timing signal (S1) ma... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7242371 | Wireless electronic display The present invention is a portable electronic video display. The display is configured to be worn on the arm or wrist of a user, or stored in a pocket or backpack. The display is raised to eye level and the user looks through an eyepiece to view the video display. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218356 | System and method for inductive line synchronization A synchronization signal generating apparatus and method in which an input circuit is inductively coupled to an alternating current signal line. The input circuit generates a rectified signal. A switch has a switch input and a switch output in which the switch input... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209530 | Multi-shelf system clock synchronization A method and apparatus for conveying to a control shelf of a multi-shelf network node any master clock signal received via a plurality of interface cards associated with a plurality of peripheral shelves of the multi-shelf network node is presented. The apparatus op... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7183792 | Method and system for detecting a mode of operation of an integrated circuit, and a memory device including same A threshold detection circuit for developing a mode trigger signal includes an input that receives an input signal. In response to the input signal having approximately an input threshold value for a triggering time, the threshold detection circuit activates the mod... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180491 | Application and method for rejection of a false data enable signal during vertical blanking periods in a graphics system A false DE rejection system is described. DEs are ignored during a programmable vertical lockout period. Internal timing is used during the vertical lockout period to count the number of vertical lines to ignore. The first DE received after the vertical lockout peri... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7068329 | Method and system for providing a video signal In accordance with the specific embodiment of the present invention, a tuner alternates between receiving a first video signal and a second video signal, such that every other frame of a specific signal is received. This is accomplished by writing to an IF1 a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064765 | System and method for grabbing frames of graphical data A frame-grabbing system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a frame buffer, a graphics adapter, video output interface and logic. The graphics adapter is configured to receive graphics commands from a graphics application an... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061540 | Programmable display timing generator A display timing generator is provided for selecting line types and providing synchronization timing signals for video signals. The display timing generator provides programmability for the user to select line types for a frame to be displayed on a display. The line... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053959 | Digital video encoder A mask circuit masks a digital video signal so that a video signal of an analog video signal is not outputted for a predetermined period after the start of output of a horizontal synchronizing signal of the analog video signal. A period of masking the digital video ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7002633 | Synchronous processing system at time of converting specification of moving picture information A main control device, to which instructions for image recording from a dynamic-image terminal are transmitted, gives instructions for accumulation processing of dynamic-image information to a dynamic-image information processing device to transmit instructions for ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6992730 | Process for mobile reception of television signals and a circuit for executing the process Process for mobile reception of television signals in which an output signal (SA) is derived from n different (S1 . . . S5) and is supplied to the reproduction part of the receiver, the n input signals (S1 . . . S5 | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977677 | Imaging apparatus with video data transmission A communication circuit transmits the digital video signal to a transmission line and receives a clock signal and timing data transmitted through the transmission line. The timing data indicates a communication timing. A timing signal generation circuit generates ti... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6972803 | Video signal format detector and generator system and method A video processing system and method are provided for generating clock and timing signals from an incoming video signal. The system includes a timing reference circuit for generating a reference clock signal, a video format detector coupled to the reference clock si... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967503 | Comparator A comparator compares a first binary input signal and a second binary input signal each binalized. A generator generates a reset signal at each rising edge or each falling edge of the first input signal. A counter counts the second input signal at each timing determ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967594 | Sensory monitor with embedded messaging elements A system for measuring human perception at edges of awareness includes a message transmitter providing embedded pre-semantic messages having a predetermined meaning or a predetermined object representation for visual priming, the messages being embedded within supra... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6956618 | Apparatus and method for processing image, and an image processing program An image processing apparatus, which displays an image corresponding to a synchronizing frequency change-image signal, which is obtained by changing a frequency of a synchronizing signal of an image signal, and an other image corresponding to an other image signal o... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6943844 | Adjusting pixel clock A pixel clock frequency is adjusted in response to periodically monitoring the relative positions between a video signal to be displayed and a video signal captured. Image shear of the display signal may be avoided quickly. Adjustments are made to the color burst si... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933955 | Process and device for representations of application on a digital television screen The present invention relates to a process and device for representation on a digital television screen. The process for the representation on a digital television screen of a display comprising the representation of a video signal, the representation of appl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6924748 | Personal communication and positioning system A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6891573 | Method and apparatus for changing the output delay of audio or video data encoding For TV broadcasting purposes encoding systems with related video encoders and audio encoders are used. The audio and video delay are aligned before multiplexing and transmitting the audio and video streams. According to a time stamping mechanism input time stamps ar... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6862045 | MOVING IMAGE DECODING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE DECODING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, TIME CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DECODING AND REPRODUCING MOVING IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RECEIVING APPARATUS Moving image signal decoder section decodes the moving image bit stream and the time stamp for reproduction transmitted from multiple separator section on a frame by frame basis and stored in input buffer and provides time control section with the time stamp for rep... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6829304 | Method for clock recovery in MPEG systems A method for clock recovery comprises a series of steps to be performed in a decoder to adaptively estimate the ratio P/S of the frequency of an encoder system time clock and the frequency of a decoder. The steps include performing a series of overlapping trials N w... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6665019 | Method and apparatus for spread spectrum clocking of digital video In accordance with one embodiment of the invention a spread spectrum pixel clock signal is generated to spread out the frequency bandwidth within which the peak emission of an electromagnetic interference signal occurs, so as to decrease the peak electrom... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6654065 | Apparatus for generating timing and synchronizing signals for a digital display device A standard signal processing apparatus for a digital display that is adaptive for a digital display device. In the apparatus, a synchronizing signal/image signal separator separates an input signal into a composite synchronizing signal and image signals. ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6636269 | Video timing system and method A video timing system and method. The method typically includes receiving from an input video stream an input video field in a video buffer, transmitting an output video field from the video buffer to an output video stream, measuring a time interval betw... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6606127 | System and method for synchronizing, storing and accurately reproducing video signals A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple signals is provided. The method and apparatus utilize the timing information of one of the multiple signals as a reference clock for synchronizing multiple signals. The method and apparatus utilize selecti... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6583822 | Timing recovery device of digital TV A timing recovery device in a digital television receiver using a VSB system is disclosed. In the present invention, the timing recovery device independently determines whether the detected hsync signal is reliable and operates if the detected hsync signa... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6532042 | Clock supply device for use in digital video apparatus A clock generating device for use in a digital video apparatus generates display clock matching an input video format. The clock generating device generates a clock of a frequency which is a predetermined number of times greater than the clock necessary f... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6417632 | Deflection apparatus and control method thereof A deflection apparatus capable of generating a stable deflection pulse in a deflection output circuit even when turning on the power source or changing over the frequency of horizontal synchronizing signal is disclosed. A pulse width modulation (PWM) cont... | 07/09/2002 |
