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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174616 | Method and apparatus for transitioning from a first display format to a second display format A letterbox detector includes a detection module configured to determine aspect ratio changes in an input signal. A transition module is configured to transition between a plurality of display modes associated with the aspect ratio changes. A first display mode to a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8120706 | Video system and method for automatic size and position adjustment according to the incoming stream We describe and claim a video system and method for automatic size and position adjustment according to the incoming stream. A detection module detects a size and a position of video including an aspect ratio of video on at least one channel of at least one video in... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111328 | Image signal processing apparatus, image display, and image display method An image signal processing apparatus, an image display, and an image display method that enable detecting a black band region included in an input image signal in a shorter time and realizes a more viewable image are provided. The image signal processing apparatus i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8085348 | Image output method to displays with different aspect ratios First and second division patterns are defined so that main areas A and A′ are similar to each other in shape, having the same horizontal-to-vertical ratio. Even if an image output apparatus is connected to a display unit having both first and second display scree... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8040436 | Device and method for modifying video image of display apparatus A method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus, the method including dividing received broadcast signals into a video signal, an audio signal, and supplementary information, converting the video signal to a video image and displaying the converted video... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7929056 | User interface with tiling of video sources, widescreen modes or calibration settings A user interface for a television or receiver associated with the television includes a display of tiles representing options available to a user, and controls for selecting one of the displayed tiles to select a corresponding option. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911536 | Screen filled display of digital video content A dynamic region, such as subtitles, is detected in a stream of digital video, and displayed along with a static region also in the stream, such as a video region, so that nearly all of the total vertical display area of a monitor displaying the dynamic and static r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7884882 | Motion picture display device An address generating unit 102 generates a different write start address (w_adr) of a picture memory 105 depending on an aspect ratio and/or a display plane position of a motion picture to be displayed. A picture writing unit 104 writes data to ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7834934 | Video signal output device When television screen setting is not set and thus a television screen setting completion flag is not set, and a terminals-connection judgment pin takes a low level, an i/p selection screen is initially displayed on a progressive display device. However, the i/p sel... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7800694 | Modular grid display Modular grid display is described. In an embodiment, a modular grid includes grid elements that each have a display ratio which is adaptable to correspond to different aspect ratios of respective display devices via which media content can be displayed. One or more ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7760269 | Method and apparatus for sizing an image on a display Methods and apparatuses are provided for sizing an image on a display screen. A user is provided the ability to display an image, display graphical objects, navigate, highlight, and activate one of the graphical objects on a display screen thereby sizing the image t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7697070 | Method of providing standard definition local television content A method and apparatus are disclosed that automatically switch between displaying local standard definition television content and non-local, high definition television content. When the same television content is available for display in both standard and high defi... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7633553 | EPG-conditioned letterbox-to-anamorphic conversion Designed for use with widescreen TVs or high-end TVs with a mode for accommodating anamorphic programs, an EPG client is equipped with an electronic program guide (EPG) and a letterbox-to-anamorphic converter. The EPG client evaluates EPG data to determine whether p... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623187 | Video display apparatus where display format can be easily changed In the video display apparatus according to the present invention, a number of video formats are made to correspond to either of two types of display formats, a screen size having an aspect ratio of 16 to 9 and a screen size having an aspect ratio of 4 to 3, in adva... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7612830 | Apparatus and method for extracting aspect ratio of received broadcast content Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for extracting the aspect ratio of received broadcast content. The apparatus includes an image reception unit, a frequency detection unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The image reception unit receives a digi... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609325 | Apparatus and method for calculating source image coordinates A method and an apparatus for calculating source image coordinates. In an embodiment, a variation rate of the source image coordinate with respect to a converted image coordinate is calculated by a recursive computation, and variation rates are accumulated to obtain... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7593062 | Video display device and video display method When showing a picture without trimming it while a video signal stored in a frame memory 26 has an aspect ratio different from that of a screen of a plasma display panel 29, with respect to video signals E2a and E2b in areas... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7554606 | EPG-conditioned letterbox-to-anamorphic conversion Designed for use with widescreen TVs or high-end TVs with a mode for accommodating anamorphic programs, an EPG client is equipped with an electronic program guide (EPG) and a letterbox-to-anamorphic converter. The EPG client evaluates EPG data to determine whether p... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7483080 | System for displaying images and method thereof A first set of display information is received at a device driver. The first set of display information indicates a portion of the video image to be displayed in a first window of a first monitor. An aspect ratio of the video image is determined based on the first s... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7440006 | System for gracefully aging inactive areas of a video display When a video display system displays an image having an aspect ratio that differs from the aspect ratio of the system's display monitor, the image spans only an “active” portion of the available display area on the monitor. The display system sets the luminance ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436411 | Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using the one or more graphics textures of differing resolutions. The one or ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430019 | Apparatus to improve image sharpness adaptively according to multi-video formats and method thereof An apparatus to improve an image sharpness and a method thereof which can improve the image sharpness of an image through an adaptive operation of the apparatus according to resolutions of input/output video signals and an emphasis of edge portions of the image. The... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423672 | Picture data recording method, picture data storage medium, picture data playback apparatus, and picture data playback method In a picture data recording method of an aspect of this invention, main picture data having a first resolution, sub-picture data having the first resolution, and sub-picture data having a second resolution lower than the first resolution are compressed, packets are ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420617 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus that detects a picture defect and shifts an image region to eliminate the picture defect. The image display apparatus includes a memory unit that temporarily stores an input image signal, a memory control unit that controls a readout start... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408580 | Image display apparatus, image display method and computer program Each of image display apparatus, an image display method and a computer program is arranged to select one of a first display mode of displaying an image of an image signal having a first aspect ratio in the image display area and a second display mode of displaying ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400345 | OLED display with aspect ratio compensation A method for uniformly aging an OLED display device, the OLED display device including a display screen with a screen aspect ratio, the method comprising: receiving a first external video signal having a first signal aspect ratio different from the screen aspect rat... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400360 | Device for simultaneous display of video at two resolutions with different fractions of active regions An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a decoded video signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate (i) a first video output signal having a first resolution and (ii) a second video s... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388620 | Method and system for pan-scan using motion vectors presentation Pan-scan is provided for a standard 4:3 aspect ratio TV displaying a 16:9 aspect ratio high definition (HD) video stream using the motion vectors that are part of MPEG-encoded streams. Specifically, if, for instance, the MPEG motion vectors indicate an object rapidl... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369612 | Video decoder and method for using the same A video decoder and a method for using the same are provided. Selected frames of a video stream are trimmed during the decoding of the video stream. The video stream is received. The video stream includes, I, P, and B frames. Only predetermined portions of each B fr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365796 | System and method for video signal decoding using digital signal processing A digital signal processing based decoder is disclosed. The decoder asynchronously samples video signals. By doing so, the decoder can work in pseudo real-time and without analog interface components improving performance while reducing cost. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362383 | System, method and apparatus for utilizing a single video input of an electronic audio/visual signal receiver as an input for multiple video signal formats A system, method, and apparatus for utilizing a single video input for receiving multiple video format signals in an electronic video receiver. The single video input includes a set of inputs to accommodate a component video signal from any one of a multitude of vid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362342 | Driving apparatus and method for liquid crystal display A driving apparatus and apparatus for a liquid crystal display wherein an image format of an NTSC image signal can be selectively converted in response to an instruction of a user. In the apparatus, a liquid crystal display panel has liquid crystal cells arranged at... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362493 | Micromirror and post arrangements on substrates A micromirror of a micromirror array of a spatial light modulator used in display systems comprises a mirror plate attached to a hinge that is supported by two posts formed on a substrate. Also the mirror plate is operable to rotate along a rotation axis that is par... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350157 | Filtering by broadcast or recording quality within an electronic program guide A memory associates a media quality indicator with each media program in a set of media programs. A filter selects from the set those media programs having at least a specified media quality. A display interface displays a list of the selected media programs in an e... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339627 | Method and system for automatic detection and display of aspect ratio Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for automatic aspect ratio detection and may comprise scanning lines in at least a selected portion of an image and locating a first reference pixel in one of the scanned lines. A corresponding... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317430 | Display panels and methods and apparatus for driving the same Methods and apparatus for mitigating or substantially eliminating pixel burn-in on phosphor-based display panels. A visual display includes a display installation and a computer. The display installation may include a display panel having including a plurality of pi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307668 | Shifting letterbox video to prolong display life A system, a method and an article of manufacture for uncentering an image of a video stream on a video display is provided. The image of the video stream is displayed uncentered on a video display at a position that depends on the aspect ratio of the video stream an... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307669 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying streams with dynamically changing formats A system and method for displaying frames with dynamically changing display parameters is described herein. The display engine stores new display parameters detected by the decoder in one buffer of a ping pong buffer, while continuing to use another set of display p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304685 | Device and method for modifying video image of display apparatus A device and method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus method, for efficiently modifying a size and aspect ratio of a video image, is disclosed. The device includes an on-screen display (OSD) generator providing an on-screen display (OSD) on a displa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
