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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965339 | Resolution enhancing method and apparatus of video A resolution enhancing method of a video includes reducing a training video, extracting a high-frequency component from the training video, calculating a first feature vector including a feature amount of a first spatio-temporal box in the reduced video, storing pai... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7333131 | Digital video apparatus capable of detecting its status of connection to peripheral apparatus A method and apparatus of detecting a connection status of a digital video apparatus to a peripheral apparatus includes a digital video encoder configured to receive a digital video signal, and convert and output the digital video signal into an analog video signal,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7283157 | Automatic level control (ALC) for video signals Disclosed are methods and systems for automatic level control (ALC) in a video signal processing system. The new ALC of the invention takes into account the gain applied to the video signal, such as that provided by an associated automatic gain control (AGC). Method... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7271830 | Motion detection in an image capturing device An image capturing device includes an electronic image sensor, a memory, and a processor. The memory includes a motion detect routine, a predetermined image interval, and at least one predetermined motion threshold. The processor conducts the capturing of images sep... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7180551 | Method, apparatus, and program for image selection An operation for selecting a desired one of images can be simplified. Still image data sets are sequentially read from a recording medium according to order of file names and displayed on a TV. Upon display, the still image data sets are in a non-selection state. If... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161614 | Device and method for converting two-dimensional video to three-dimensional video There is provided parallax correction means for correcting a parallax for each area calculated by parallax calculation means in accordance with the magnitude of a motion vector for the area detected by motion vector detection means in order to prevent the three-dime... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7145603 | Docking station assembly for transmitting digital files A docking station assembly for transmitting digital images, the docking station assembly comprises a housing for forming an enclosure for the docking station assembly and the housing includes an insert-receiving portion for receiving any of a plurality of removable ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7106231 | Video signal processing system including analog to digital converter and related method for calibrating analog to digital converter A video signal processing system capable of adjusting errors and related methods are introduced. The video signal processing system and related calibration methods utilize the characteristic of periodic breaks of video signals to perform various kinds of calibration... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7055963 | Content optimizing system for an image projection lighting device An image projection lighting device is disclosed having a processor and communications port. The communications port may receive a contrast command. The processor may modify contrast of image data in response to the contrast command to form contrast modified image d... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055964 | Content optimizing system for an image projection lighting device An image projection lighting device is disclosed having a processor and communications port. The communications port may receive a contrast command. The processor may modify contrast of image data in response to the contrast command to form contrast modified image d... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050110 | Method and system for generating annotations video A method and system for processing video signals is disclosed. The system receives a video signal, a first audio signal containing an annotation and a second audio signal containing environmental sounds corresponding to the video signal. In one embodiment the system... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046251 | Editing system with router for connection to HDTV circuitry A non-linear editor is connected to video processing equipment through a serial digital video interface to edit high definition (HD) television video data. The non-linear editor includes a randomly accessible, computer-readable and re-writeable storage medium that s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6967687 | Display control apparatus and method A display control apparatus and a display control method are provided in which a resolution of an input image signal is judged, a change in the image signal is detected, and the image signal is adaptatively interpolated in accordance with the judgement and detection... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965402 | System for detecting and storing digital pictures Digital pictures are taken by a digital camera. The digital camera provides picture data with a large dynamic range of, for example, 10 bit. Data processing and display devices operate with 8 bit only, i.e. do not take advantage of the high dynamic range of the came... | 11/15/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6941060 | Image/voice data conversion device and disk unit using it A video and audio data converter capable of insert-edit-processing another video data and audio data in real time while reproducing produced video and audio data and a disk apparatus using the video and audio data converter are configured so that a plurality of vide... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6919897 | System and method for pre-processing a video signal A method and apparatus for pre-processing video signals comprises a video input module, a first video pipeline, and a second video pipeline. The video input module receives and forwards one or more live video signals, producing a forwarded video signal for each rece... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6844883 | Color non-uniformity correction method and apparatus A method of correcting a video signal includes retrieving a correction data from a respective one multiple memory devices; reordering the correction data to a predetermined order for a particular segment; and interpolating multiple correction data so that all pixels... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836294 | Method of decreasing delay through frame based format converters An apparatus converts an input video signal having a first format into an output video signal having a second format. A formatter receives the first video signal and divides each field or frame into an active video top and bottom half. Two format converters receive ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6809777 | Pixel calculating device A pixel calculating device for performing vertical filtering that includes 16 pixel processing units 1 to 16 and an input buffer group 22 storing 16 pieces of pixel data and filter coefficients. Each of the pixel processing units performs operations using the... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6757006 | Moving trouble monitoring system and recording medium A monitoring system for watching moving trouble of work boards, which is capable of informing of trouble of boards immediately after trouble occurs in the continuous production line, and capable of displaying a monitored picture which is modified into a special pict... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6750876 | Programmable display controller A programmable display controller for use in a digital imaging system has a video control register, a data access controller and a programmable modulator. The programmable display control is designed to be used with a digital imaging systems, such as digital cameras... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6539054 | Image output apparatus, image reproduction method, object composition apparatus, object composition method, and data storage medium The image output apparatus comprises first and second decoders 11a and 11b for decoding encoded object data E1 and W2 corresponding to the first and second objects, video data composition means 12 for compositing output data of these decoders frame by fra... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6501510 | Digital/analog broadcast signal processing unit A digital/analog broadcast signal processing unit is provided by which a video/audio signal can be processed by receiving an analog broadcast signal and a digital broadcast signal and switching a signal processing block which is used in common for digital... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6392710 | Graphical user interface for field-based definition of special effects in a video editing system A non-linear video editing system includes a graphical user interface to facilitate editing of video clips in a composition. The system includes the ability to display and edit a video frame on a field-by-field basis. Each field can be edited separately f... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6373529 | Image processing A method and apparatus for the processing of video data in which the appearance characteristics of picture elements are modified using digital apparatus such as a color processor which provides a plurality of channels having respective processing means, e... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6285404 | Systolic video encoding system A systolic video encoding system processes image data from a frame buffer at a core clock rate that is independent of the sample rate of the image data. The video encoder of this invention uses the core clock rate of the host image processing system to pr... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6285361 | Method and apparatus for clipping video segments from an audiovisual file Disclosed is a method for clipping a segment from a video file having a multiplicity of video frames. Preferably, at least some of the frames in the video file are encoded as predicted frames. The method includes selecting a mark-in location in the video ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6229576 | Editing system with router for connection to HDTV circuitry A non-linear editor is connected to video processing equipment through a serial digital video interface to edit high definition (HD) television video data. The non-linear editor includes a randomly accessible, computer-readable and re-writeable storage me... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6172716 | Video processing circuit Improved circuitry for adjusting the video gain, black level, chroma gain and burst phase of a video signal includes composite to Y/C splitter, luminance processing section, sync separator and chroma processor. Unity and split mode selection is provided. ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6137952 | Apparatus and method for degrading the quality of unauthorized copies of color images and video sequences Image-distorting artifacts are added to selected areas of a color image. A first artifact change is made to a luminance component of a selected area, and at least one other artifact change is made to chrominance components of the selected area. The artifa... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5982364 | Video processing system including frame position indicators An electronic video processing system comprises a store (11) for storing data defining plural video clips, and a processor (21, 27, 28, 29) for selecting from the stored video clips a plurality of clips and for selectively combining data defining the sele... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5870154 | Signal enhancement system A circuit and method for optimizing the display of a video signal on a display. Control of the display's brightness and contrast is based on aspects of a video signal, such as the average amplitude of the signal and the standard deviation. These aspects o... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5835164 | Video signal processor In a color image display system formed of a monochromatic CRT or like image display device (102) having a screen (103) for display of images and a rotary filter (106) comprising color filter sections (106R, 106G and 106B) of a plurality of colors; image s... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5583791 | Recording-reproduction apparatus When moving image information is reproduced from a recording medium as a recording medium to record moving image information, the number of reading portions in the recording medium is set and the moving image information is read out from read addresses co... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5500682 | Memory equipment for writing/reading a defective video signal in a FIFO memory device consectively The invention relates to a video signal memory equipment comprising a FIFO memory for storing video data of video signals, and a control unit for controlling writing and reading in the FIFO memory, wherein the control unit receives a horizontal synchroniz... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5488428 | Video special effect generating apparatus In apparatus for generating a video special effect of making an image to see as if it were illuminated with light and changing the qualitative appearance of the image, an input video signal is stored in a video memory and read out by a reading address gen... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5414808 | Method for accessing and manipulating library video segments A system for manipulation of isochonous data provides for definition of frames within the string of isochronous data, if necessary, and then allows selection of frames of data from items of isochronous data to define segments therein. retrieve, copy and d... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5253045 | Interpolating finer intensity levels in dither-quantized television pictures A receiver interpolates finer intensity levels in critical areas of a dither-quantized TV picture that is sent (or recorded) with very few intensity levels. This improves picture rendition and reduces the visibility of stipple dots. One embodiment, for vi... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5161016 | Method of interpolating an image signal using a slope correlation and a circuit thereof A method for interpolating an image signal using a slope correlation and the circuit thereof, in order to improve a picture quality by enhancing a vertical resolution. A slope correlation interpolation depending on a correlation degree between picture ele... | 11/03/1992 |
