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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7385649 | Video display apparatus and method In a video display apparatus and method, video data of video being displayed on a display unit are sequentially updated and temporality stored in a storage unit. The video data stored in the storage unit is written into an external storage medium according to a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7362337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a (2i−1)th row and a (2i)th row of intermediate data respectively bas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7340682 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content cont... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324161 | Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus having a display main body including a screen and a rear cover formed with an accommodation space between the screen and the rear cover, and a supporting part supporting the display main body, further comprising: a display processor receiving dat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321371 | Data conversion device The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310775 | System and method for restoring desktop components using distributed desktop packages A system and method that centrally manages desktop packages is provided allowing the administrator to recover component files previously sent to servers located throughout the organization. Applications are assigned to users and workstations. Self-contained desktop ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7307667 | Method and apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller A method and an apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller are described. The integrated high definition digital television controller includes two or more the following functions in a single chip: MPEG2 Transport, Audio and Video Decoders, Vi... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7263231 | Method and apparatus for performing video image decoding In one embodiment, a method of performing video image decoding includes the following. A compressed video image is downsampled in the frequency domain. The downsampled video image is inverse transformed. Motion compensation for the downsampled image is performed in ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253843 | Dual mode signal processing apparatus and method using a picture-in-picture (PIP) mode The present invention relates to a dual mode signal processing apparatus using a picture-in-picture (PIP) window. In particular, the present invention relates to a display apparatus and a function switching apparatus that display two views for DSPs performing differ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243336 | System and method of extending application types in a centrally managed desktop environment A system and method that allows an administrator to provide application extensions in a platform-neutral shell environment is provided. The administrator defines a graphical interface, such as an icon, used to launch the platform dependent software application. The ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242438 | Image displayer with facilitated channel setting process An image displayer with a facilitated channel setting process, in which the channels are set based on a pre-stored channel information. The image displayer includes a channel information storing unit for storing the channel information, an OSD (On Screen Display) pr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7203905 | System and method for platform independent desktop lockdown A system and method that provides a platform-neutral shell application for a user interface is provided. The platform neutral shell application is performed in a way that prevents the user from accessing the underlying operating system. The desktop shell application... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7142252 | Image processing apparatus and method for displaying picture-in-picture with frame rate conversion An apparatus and method for implementing picture-in-picture with frame rate conversion includes an input buffer unit, a data synchronizing unit, first through third memories, and a memory control unit. The input buffer unit buffers input data and outputs buffered da... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7119850 | Sub picture control apparatus and method for television receiver Disclosed is a sub picture control apparatus and method for a TV that can achieve an effective viewing of the sub picture. The apparatus includes a region data extracting section (52) for extracting region data included in a broadcasting signal tuned by a sec... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119849 | Multi-screen synthesis apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for controlling the apparatus There is provided a multi-screen synthesis apparatus that can execute display of video data and update of an OSD image without causing a user to feel a visual sense of incongruity, and reduce system costs. Periodic video source data and a periodic OSD image data are... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111245 | System and method for smart graphical components A system and method in which a graphical component determines its appearance and runtime behavior based upon the type of container to which it belongs is provided. The container type corresponds to an implementation construct such as a class in C++ and Java, or a st... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106384 | Method and device for simultaneously representing at least a first and a second sequence of pictures in an overall picture The invention relates to a method and a device for simultaneously representing at least a first and a second sequence of pictures (M, S) in an overall picture. The inventive method is characterised in that picture data belonging to a picture of the first sequence of... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099439 | Loop test apparatus and method Systems and methods are described for measuring the quality of telephone transmission lines. A device, such as a loop test apparatus, can be located at a customer's premises and used for remotely diagnosing telephone line impairments, especially concerning the local... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7080395 | Information processor, information processing method as well as broadcasting system and broadcasting method There is provided an information processor and an information processing method for effectively utilizing EPG data. Identification codes for identifying specific character parts such as names of the cast of a program described in a description text describing the de... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7061543 | Method and circuit for image-in-image overlay The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture insertion, in which a sequence of insertion pictures (Kj=K1,K2, . . . ) is read, with vertical decimation (VD≧1), into a memory device (S) and subsequently read out, the sequence of... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057669 | Language displaying apparatus for digital TV and method for the same A language displaying apparatus for a digital TV and a method for the same notices all kinds of languages included in broadcasting signals and enables a user to recognize them and select the preferable language easily and accurately. To achieve this, the method acco... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053956 | Method of and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications. Preferably, the apparatus implementing the present invention includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043697 | Virtual display driver A virtual display driver that can be dynamically loaded and unloaded for remote control of a host computing system. The host computing system includes an original display driver that updates an output display of the computing system based on display commands. A remo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034891 | Interfacing system for stream source apparatus and display apparatus and interfacing method thereof An interfacing method and system for a stream source apparatus and a display device, which includes a stream source apparatus receiving analog/digital signals from external analog/digital equipments to generate a plurality of transmission packet streams correspondin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023485 | Apparatus and method for selectively converting clock frequency in digital signal receiver An apparatus for selectively converting a clock frequency in a digital signal receiver is provided. The apparatus includes: a first phase locked loop (PLL); a second phase locked loop; a switching portion for selecting a clock frequency from one of the first and sec... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7002635 | Method for superimposing pictures In the case of picture insertions, such as picture-in-picture, for example, fluctuations in the line duration are manifested in position displacements relative to the desired position of the inserted pictures. In order to prevent position displacements in the... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993076 | Apparatus and method for deriving an enhanced decoded reduced-resolution video signal from a coded high-definition video signal An improved image processing system involves decoding compressed image data including frequency domain coefficients defining blocks of pixel values representing an image at a first resolution to provide an image at a reduced second resolution for display from a sele... | 01/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6980254 | Image interpolation system and image interpolation method An image interpolation system for interpolating gaps between lines forming an image, includes: generating virtual interpolation data of inter-lines between the lines of an input image, based on the input image line data; and interpolating pixels between the input im... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975324 | Video and graphics system with a video transport processor A video and graphics system includes a data transport processor for receiving compressed data streams, a video transport processor for extracting video data, and an audio decode processor for extracting audio data. The data transport processor provides PCRs to the v... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965803 | Apparatus and method for commissioning and diagnosing control systems The engineering of automation systems is configured more simply where the functionality of a control system is implemented via an object model. The object model permits the functional interconnection of technological objects. For this purpose, a project browser ensu... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959045 | Reduced cost decoder using bitstream editing for image cropping A method for decoding variable length encoded digital video data including pictures, to a size less than the full size of the pictures, each picture including a plurality of macroblocks. The method comprises the steps of receiving digital video data; parsing the dig... | 10/25/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6943845 | Apparatus and method for data processing, and storage medium A technology is disclosed to enable a transfer to be made quickly and easily to a screen layout and an audio output mode preferred by a user when there is a change in an input source. Past viewing and listening history information regarding the attribute and the out... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6924846 | Information processing apparatus, graphic processing unit, graphic processing method, storage medium, and computer program An information processing apparatus obtains a first image and display timing information of the first image via a first channel, and a second image via a second channel different from the first channel. The information processing apparatus includes a main CPU for pr... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924845 | Value added digital video receiver Methods and systems are provided for customizing a digital broadcast receiver. Video and audio clips may be captured from a broadcast signal after receiving commands from a user. The captured clips may then be used to provide background images and sounds. Sounds may... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6903781 | Video signal processing apparatus A video signal processing apparatus comprises a sub-screen processing integrated circuit for subjecting a sub-screen video signal to scale-down processing to reduce its display region and output the sub-screen video signal, and a main-screen processing integrated ci... | 06/07/2005 |
