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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443450 | Sync processor of flat panel display for determining signal safety on the basis of HSYNC/VSYNC signal generated according to data enable signal In a sync processor for determining safety of signals on the basis of a horizontal/vertical sync signal generated according to a data enable signal, the sync processor includes a digital horizontal/vertical signal generator, a selector, a digital horizontal/vertical... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7432980 | Method for reducing analog PLL jitter in video application The present invention provides a method for reducing analog PLL (Phase-lock loop) jitter in video ADC application. The HSync/CSync is replaced with a faked HSync signal to be inputted to PLL during vertical blank period. Therefore the analog PLL will only see the fa... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7362380 | 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), a loop filter (94), a vertical sync discrete time oscillator (DTO) (9... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7327401 | Display synchronization signal generation apparatus and method in analog video signal receiver A display synchronization signal generation apparatus and method, which make it possible to display a stable image irrespective of changes of horizontal and vertical frequencies of a received analog video signal in an analog video signal receiver. The display synchr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7271844 | Frame signal phase adjuster A frame signal phase adjuster comprises units for inputting a parallel clock and a reference signal (22-4 and 22-1); generating a frame signal from the reference signal (22-1), adjusting a phase of the frame signal (22 | 09/18/2007 |
| 7253842 | Locking display pixel clock to input frame rate To match the output frame rates to the input frame rates, a display clock signal is generated that has a frequency locked to the frequency of a reference clock signal. To generate the display clock signal, the period of the vertical incoming data clock is measured u... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7211777 | Confocal microscope apparatus to measure a stereoscopic shape of a sample A confocal microscope apparatus has a confocal scanner for scanning a sample with shifting a focal position of a light beam in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, a moving mechanism for moving the focal position of the light beam in an optical axis directi... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7199834 | Vertical synchronizing signal generation apparatus and video signal processing apparatus The vertical sync signal generator includes: a vertical sync signal separation circuit for separating a vertical sync signal of an input luminance signal and outputting the separated signal as a first vertical sync signal; an automatic frequency control circuit for ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190407 | System, method and apparatus for sandcastle signal generation in a television signal processing device A system, method and apparatus are provided for generating 98 a sandcastle signal in a television signal receiver 90, and utilizing the sandcastle signal during television signal processing. In one form, the sandcastle signal is generated by subtractin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180550 | Video reproducing apparatus and method and apparatus and method for adjusting horizontal synchronous signal A video signal reproducing apparatus and method for adjusting a change in a horizontal synchronous signal. The video signal reproducing apparatus transforms a format of an input video signal, generates horizontal and vertical synchronous signals, and displays the vi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7095446 | Method and device for phase correction of a vertically distorted digital image A device for correcting the phase of a vertically distorted digital picture receives picture data and a vertical phase correction signal, and assigns lines of the digital picture to a first half picture and to a second half picture. The lines of the second half pict... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095793 | Digital exciter/phasor/transmitter for directional antennal system A transmission system delays a carrier wave and program audio in the digital domain. The carrier wave and the program audio are converted to analog and the carrier wave is modulated by the program audio. The system includes a master oscillator that generates a digit... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7049867 | PLL circuit and image display device A PLL circuit that makes a voltage-controlled oscillator converge to a stable state within a short time and generates a clock signal with high stability even when discontinuity occurs in the period of a reference input signal is provided. The PLL circuit has a volta... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7015973 | Method and apparatus for generating coast signal for image processing A method and an apparatus for generating a coast signal for enabling or disabling a phase comparator in a phase-locked loop of image processing apparatus. The phase-locked loop generates a sampling clock signal, which is used to convert an analog image signal into a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6891572 | Video signal conversion processing apparatus and method A signal processing apparatus and method for up or down conversion of an interlace signal with a high degree of accuracy. The frequency of a write system clock supplied from a PLL circuit is divided by N by a dividing circuit and then multiplied by M by a multiplyin... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6847409 | Video switching detecting circuit The object of the invention is to provide a video switchover detection circuit that reduces the circuit scale and allows high-accuracy detection with a smaller-scale configuration. According to the invention, the video switchover detection circuit comprises a... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6831634 | Image processing device An inexpensive and simple circuit for improving an image quality of a dynamic image, with appropriate processing flexibly performed for dynamic image qualities also for a plurality of input signal sources. An image processing device comprises a memory unit having a ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6674482 | Apparatus for generating sync of digital television An apparatus for generating a sync of a digital television in which an analog signal inputted to a digital television constantly provides stabilized synchronization regardless of a standard or a nonstandard so as to be processed. The apparatus for generat... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6624852 | Sync signal correcting apparatus for DTV receiver A synchronization signal correcting apparatus and method for a digital TV is disclosed. The present invention allows an output of a stable analog image in a digital TV by compensating for the difference between an input sync and a display sync that may be... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6606410 | Method and apparatus for detecting a synchronous signal A method for detecting a synchronous signal contained in an input image signal is provided. In the method, horizontal and vertical periods are established during which horizontal and vertical synchronous signal pulses contained in the input image signal a... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6563545 | Synchronous processing circuit With the present invention, a synchronous processor circuit can be implemented with a simplified circuit by improving a display's synchronization stability, and by setting a pulse width of a vertical synchronizing signal to be integral multiple of the hor... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6545721 | Video retiming through dynamic FIFO sizing A method and apparatus for retiming video. Vertical synchronization information (VSI) is detected in an incoming video stream. A VSI is also detected in both as output video stream and a reference video stream. Based on the difference between the VSI of t... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6526583 | Interactive set-top box having a unified memory architecture According to one embodiment, a graphics/video processor includes a memory controller. The memory controller includes a first arbiter that receives memory client requests to access a memory device, and a first memory buffer coupled to the first arbiter. Th... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6424379 | Vertical synchronization separation circuit A vertical synchronization separation circuit eliminates distortion in a television picture produced when the synchronization signal is complex and includes a copy guard signal.... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6366327 | Vertical sync detection and output for video decoder A technique for detecting three modes of video input signal and outputting a vertical sync signal based on the input signal. In a first mode, a standard video signal is received and a line counter is used to decode and output the vertical sync. In a secon... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6339412 | Device and method for stabilizing horizontal transistor of video display device A stabilizing circuit for stabilizing a horizontal transistor of a video display device. The stabilizing circuit includes a transient state detector for detecting a transient state of a phase locked loop circuit in a horizontal drive circuit due to a chan... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6222590 | Phase-locked loop circuit In a phase-locked loop circuit, a vertical synchronous separation circuit separates a vertical sync signal from a composite synchronizing signal to detect part of a vertical synchronizing period. A mask circuit masks the composite synchronizing signal dur... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6181088 | Cathode ray tube apparatus having a protection circuit for protecting a cathode ray tube driving circuit and a method therefor A cathode ray tube display apparatus having a protection circuit which cuts off supply of a synchronization signal, i.e., the horizontal and/or vertical synchronization signals, to a cathode ray tube driving circuit in response to a state signal indicatin... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6052153 | Synchronization circuit and methods for screens with scanning circuits that reduce the effects of variations in frequency of an input signal Disclosed is a synchronization circuit that can be applied in the field of monitors and, especially, in the field of television receivers. The disclosed circuit comprises circuits to analyse and correct the horizontal and vertical synchronization signals ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6005634 | Method and apparatus for controlling the display of a video image A control circuit (100) which receives horizontal synchronising pulses (265) and generates a horizontal drive output signal (455) for a cathode ray tube (CRT) display. The horizontal control circuit (100) generates two ramp signals. A first ramp signal (4... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5999222 | Digital vertical sync separator An improved high-performance vertical sync separator which can reliably operate during high frequency and non-standard video signal conditions and that utilizes a device-independent methodology. The synch separator includes a signal separator circuit havi... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5973750 | Television channel selection monitoring apparatus A television channel selection monitoring apparatus for identifying the broadcast channel to which a television receiver means is tuned at any given time is disclosed. Instead of relying for the channel identification on the local oscillation frequency at... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5929923 | Apparatus for producing a video signal in synchronism with an external synchronizing signal An encoder generating an analogue color signal is configured by a digital circuit. An external frame signal supplied from an external apparatus is counted by a clock pulse signal generated by a crystal oscillator, and a synchronizing signal to be added to... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5917551 | Synchronization stabilizing circuit and television signal receiver In a synchronization stabilizing circuit and a television signal receiver, the follow-up range (TX) of the synchronizing signal (SH) is changed based on the judged result (J1) that it is judged whether or not the synchronizing signal (SH) itself exists an... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5896180 | Phase-locked loop circuit for generating stable clock signal for use in regeneration of picture signal A phase-locked loop circuit generates a clock signal synchronized with a color burst signal contained in a composite color picture signal. The phase-locked loop circuit contains a phase synchronization loop having a loop gain, extracts the color burst sig... | 04/20/1999 |
| 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 |
