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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7327873 | Fast software rotation of video for portrait mode displays In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises loading a processor with data from a source buffer, the data representing pixels from a first color space, and the pixels being ordered for display in a first orientation, transforming the data into data ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327792 | Digital video system and control method thereof A digital video system for wirelessly transmitting a signal to a display device, including a receiver that analyzes a packet of the signal wirelessly received through a first transmitting/receiving unit to check the transmission error rate. The receiver externally s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7224403 | Televised scoreboard or statistics presentation with colors corresponding to players' uniforms A method and apparatus for allowing a television viewer to quickly and easily relate the teams' names and scores to the players are disclosed. The teams' names and scores are presented on a small scoreboard or banner on the television screen, and either the backgrou... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7155058 | System and method for automatically detecting and correcting red eye A system and method automatically detects and corrects the occurrence of red-eye in digital photographs and images without user intervention. The system includes a face recognition and locator engine for locating human faces within the image and for generating a bou... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7062147 | Time shifting by concurrently recording and playing an audio stream A audio stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the audio stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being re... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7023491 | Method and device for displaying frozen pictures on video display device A method and apparatus for constructing a frozen picture to be displayed on a display device in a video data decoding system; the apparatus and method including the steps of receiving video data to be spatially and temporally reconstructed in the decoding system, fi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015918 | 2-D luma and chroma DMA optimized for 4 memory banks A method for storing data of a plurality of components of an image in a memory system with four banks comprising the steps of (A) placing a first portion of data of a first component of the plurality of components into a first bank of the four banks and (B) placing ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6980256 | Instant replay of digital video optimized using non MPEG frame tags A method and device for providing instant replay in an MPEG video decoder. The method and device provides non-MPEG frame tags for correlation of the frames in the decompressed domain to the frames in the compressed domain. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973669 | Pausing television programming in response to selection of hypertext link A time sequential signal comprising audiovisual content and hyperlinks is received and displayed on a display device by the systems of the invention in a time sequential manner. The display of the time sequential signal is paused whenever a displayed hyperlink is se... | 12/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6630965 | Field freeze filter implementation A circuit for freezing a video frame having a first field interlaced with a second field. The circuit generally comprises a memory and a filter. The memory may be configured to present a plurality of coefficient signals that define (i) a first coefficient... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6295094 | Instant replay of digital video optimized using non MPEG frame tags A method and device for providing instant replay in an MPEG video decoder. The method and device provides non-MPEG frame tags for correlation of the frames in the decompressed domain to the frames in the compressed domain.... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6172714 | Color adjustment table system for YUV to RGB color conversion A method of providing conversion from YUV signals to RGB signals includes the steps of determining a correspondence value between each of the Y. U, and V pixel values and the corresponding one of the R, G, and B pixel values. Three tables are generated; a... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6100937 | Method and system for combining multiple images into a single higher-quality image A method and system for combining a set of n still image frames into a single reduced noise still image. The invention reduces visible noise, along with some television color artifacts, in still images captured from a video stream by combining data from m... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5822013 | Selective projection image freeze device An image freeze device comprising a still image output mode selector, a write signal generator for outputting a write signal corresponding to an operational state of the still image output mode selector, a counter for counting a number of column addresses... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5812209 | Television device When the time is to be set to a clock in a video tape recorder (VTR) utilizing time information that is interpolated in a broadcasting signal, a broadcasting station for this time setting can easily be selected by using broadcasting station tables contain... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5777691 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus, for an image recording and reproducing system, comprises a means for writing a given field image signal in a field memory, and a means for reading out the field image signal written in the field memory. The reading means rea... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5555463 | Television receiver with deferred transmission of moving image sequences A television receiver equipped with an internal device produces a deferred source signal in order to alter the amount (X) of deferment in order to allow for a replay or skipping of a portion of a program being viewed. The change in deferment is followed a... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5500740 | Video signal processing with common delay line for luminance interpolation and color conversion A video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a video signal recorded on a magnetic recording medium includes a modulating circuit for receiving a color-difference line-sequential signal and modulating the color-difference line-sequential signal at... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5387928 | Electronic endoscope system having both still and moving images An electronic endoscope system which picks up images by colors sequentially in a field sequential method, simultaneously converts the field sequential image signals obtained thereby, and reproduces the images as color images. The electronic endoscope syst... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5329320 | TV receiver and buffer system therefor A buffer system for TV receivers includes a cyclic storage device connectible to the demodulation circuits for continuously storing the audio and video signals last outputted thereby only over a predetemined time interval, enabling the viewer to jump-back... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5021873 | Image signal processor An image signal processor includes a memory device for storing an image signal representative of a picture during one field period, an operating unit for generating a READ-OUT command necessary to read out contents stored in the memory device, a selector ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5018014 | TV receiver and method for concurrently displaying a reproduced stored program and a received program When a user wants to reproduce a necessary scene once more again during the TV reviewing, a main picture is continuously displayed on a TV screen while a side picture and sound which are recorded without using a conventional endless tape. The size of the ... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5012328 | Television receiver which includes a memory for storing a field image which can be periodically displayed as a still picture A television receiver and apparatus which includes a field memory which is capable of storing a video signal during a first period of time and includes a control for controlling the writing of the video signal in the image and also for displaying the stor... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4994900 | Television receiver In normal reproduction, a switch circuit (11) is set to select an output signal of an A/D converter (1). Consequently, a movement adaptation type YC separating circuit is formed, whereby a luminance signal and a chrominance signal are separated. When a co... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4982279 | Television receiver having a memorandum function A digital television receiver capable of storing a desired television image information in response to an image storage instruction signal and reproducing the stored image information as a still image on the screen of a display tube (116) at any time as r... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4853765 | Sequential scanning converter with frame comb filter and freeze frame feature A video signal processing circuit capable of reproducing a still picture signal from a color video signal comprises a luminance signal/chrominance signal separation circuit of a motion adaptive type, a scanning line interpolation circuit of a motion adapt... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4758881 | Still video frame store memory A still video frame store memory includes four banks of random access memory storing two-byte words, the luminance data being stored in the high bytes of all banks and two chrominance difference signals being stored in the low bytes of two of the banks. T... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4701785 | Frame comb filter having freeze frame feature A combination frame comb/freeze frame apparatus is disclosed. In the normal mode, the apparatus serves to separate one of the component signals (luma or chroma) from a composite video signal. In the freeze frame mode, the separated component signal is sto... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4037247 | Still color television signal recording and reproducing apparatus There is disclosed a still color television signal recording and reproducing apparatus which utilizes a single storage tube of a conventional type. Circuitry is shown which enables to store one field or frame of a color television signal together with a c... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3943558 | Apparatus for reproducing colored still picture image An apparatus in which a luminance signal is recorded onto a first storage tube, the two chrominance signals are compressed to one-half, respectively, in time axis to record alternately such compressed chrominance signals onto a second storage tube, and th... | 03/09/1976 |
