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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7148631 | Drive device and drive method of light emitting display panel After a command signal corresponding to a gradation whose light emission is controlled is outputted from a controller IC 4, based on this, a combination of respectively different intensity conversion data are extracted from a linear data table 11 and a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6956622 | Method and apparatus for modulating video signals A luminance component of a video signal is modulated in a first frequency band. A chrominance component of the video signal is modulated in a second frequency band. The modulated luminance component and the modulated chrominance component are then transmitted across... | 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 |
| 6947069 | Method and apparatus for connecting fiber optic lines to an information transmission line carrying two way signals In a method and apparatus for connecting fiber optic lines and a fiber optic receiver and a fiber optic transmitter in an information transmission system carrying information signals propagated from a transmitter to a receiver in one direction and an external synchr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6836295 | Audio to video timing measurement for MPEG type television systems An invention for measuring, maintaining and correcting synchronization between signals which suffer varying relative delays during transmission and/or storage is shown. The preferred embodiment of the invention finds particular use in measuring the relative delay be... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6246435 | In-service realtime picture quality analysis An in-service, realtime picture quality analysis method determines the degradation of a test video signal at a test point with respect to a reference video signal by generating from the reference video signal a set of parameters that characterize the imag... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5812731 | Signal processing apparatus for adding synchronizing signal to horizontal and vertical blanking periods of a color difference signal A signal processing circuit for adding a synchronizing signal to a predetermined signal, wherein the synchronizing signal oscillates to one side from a reference level of the synchronizing signal, and wherein the predetermined signal oscillates to one sid... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5694174 | Television system capable of synchronizing a receiver with a transmitter by using a reference signal having a varying phase angle In a television signal transmission system including a transmitter and a receiver, a reference signal has a phase angle between 0° and 360° within a single cycle. The phase angle of the reference signal is successively produced by a phase angle generato... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5495293 | Frame synchronizer and a signal switching apparatus An external color frame is synchronized with a local color frame without producing a pixel position error. A frame synchronizer synchronizes a frame from an external television signal with that of a local television signal. A wide screen oriented high def... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5099312 | Timebase corrector A timebase corrector for a video signal is comprised of a reference clock signal generating means for generating, on the basis of a first synchronizing signal separated from a reference signal, a reference clock signal which is input to a first analog-to-... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4626914 | Carrier synchronizing system for locking a remotely located carrier generator to a reference carrier generator at a base station The base station comprises a reference carrier generator and a synchronized carrier generator is provided in at least one remote station. Carrier synchronizing information is transmitted from the base station to the remote station and the synchronized car... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4532547 | Video device synchronization system A TV video signal synchronization signal system enables a video device such as a digital special effects system to operate synchronously in response to an input video signal and still produce an output video signal synchronized to a television studio lock... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4333103 | Automatic phase adjusting apparatus for television cameras An apparatus for automatically adjusting phases of composite synchronizing signals and burst flag signals of a plurality of composite video signals supplied from a plurality of television cameras in order to effect cut-switching, mixing, etc. without a de... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4214261 | Synchronizing apparatus for remote television apparatus A synchronizing apparatus for compensating for cable length changes between a remote color television camera and a local control point is described. The color camera is of the type adapted to receive a "gen-lock" type reference signal for synchronization.... | 07/22/1980 |
