Quotables
"Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need."
Charles Kettering
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174620 | High definition media content processing High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8045060 | Asynchronous camera/projector system for video segmentation An asynchronous camera/projector system includes a projection screen, having a key color, a projector, oriented to provide a sequenced background image to the screen, and a camera, located in front of the screen, and oriented to capture a sequenced image of the scre... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7649571 | Methods for interactive video compositing An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646434 | Video compositing systems for providing interactive entertainment An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7528890 | Interactive system and method for video compositing An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7375769 | Image processing apparatus In an apparatus for composing image data of a main picture and image data of a sub-picture by a chroma key process, an attribute of an image contained in the sub-picture is detected, a partial area of the sub-picture is set as a chroma key mask area in accordance wi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373016 | Image synthesizing apparatus and image synthesizing method An image synthesizing apparatus according to the present invention comprises coefficient setting means for setting a blending coefficient α(0≦α≦1) at a specified value when a value of a specific picture element component included in picture element components ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366295 | Telephone signal generator and methods and devices using the same A method or device includes a telephone with an audio or video effects generator to produce audio or video effects that are transmitted as part of a signal from the telephone. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7324166 | Live actor integration in pre-recorded well known video The apparatus inserts a participant realistically into familiar background media to provide similar results to a completely original movie with multi-camera studio production and editing. An automated and simplified studio has multiple cameras and traditional studio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319415 | Chroma deblocking filter An encoder, decoder, and corresponding method are disclosed for deblocking pixel data processed with block transformations, the encoder including a conditional deblocking filter for filtering only block transitions meeting chroma difference measure criteria; the dec... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319798 | Apparatus generating 3-dimensional image from 2-dimensional image and method thereof A 3-dimensional image is generated from an input 2-dimensional image based upon illuminative characteristics of the input image by filtering the 2-dimensional input image with filters of different orientations, outputting base shading images corresponding to the fil... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7266241 | Secondary color modification of a digital image An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further,... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254282 | Systems and methods for transforming video images using fast visual interpolation In an image gathering and display system, data is interpolated by gathering non-interpolated input data and formatting that data such that a user of the data can interpolate the data without requiring the image gathering and display system to perform the interpolati... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221724 | Precision timing generation A precision timing generator and an associate method provide a precise clock signal based on a reference clock signal. Using the reference clock signal in a phase locked loop or delay locked loop, a number of clock signals of equal frequency are generated separated ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213255 | Set-top preview program Disclosed is a system for generating a graphics window that is capable of emulating enhanced video from a combined video and interactive content stream. The set-top emulator can randomly access the combined video and interactive content stream to provide an easy man... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7184047 | Method and apparatus for the generation of computer graphic representations of individuals Apparatus for generating computer models of individuals is provided comprising a booth (1) that is connected to a server (2) via the Internet (3). Image data of an individual is captured using the booth (1) and a computer model correspond... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177454 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164441 | Video image producing method and apparatus Projectors display a movie of a tourist resort, which is a background image, on screens, and video cameras take video by overlapping a subject walking on a treadmill with the background image. Therefore, the subject can be naturally combined in the background image,... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154540 | System for enhancing video Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast camera's field of view. Pattern recognition techniques can be used to de... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154558 | Display control apparatus and method, and recording medium and program therefor A display control apparatus includes a display controller for receiving image signals corresponding to a plurality of images, to perform image processing on the image signals, and to synthesize images corresponding to the thus-processed image signals. While the imag... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7133083 | Dynamic shadow removal from front projection displays A technique and system for detecting a radiometric variation/artifacts of a front-projected dynamic display region under observation by at least one camera. The display is comprised of one or more images projected from one or more of a plurality of projectors; the s... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126578 | Combining raster and vector data in the presence of transparency Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for preparing one or more vector data objects for rendering. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving an object that is a vector data object and defining clipping states of the object. Each clipping s... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113193 | Method for color transition detection A hand-manipulated prop is picked-up via a single video camera, and the camera image is analyzed to isolate the part of the image pertaining to the object for mapping the position and orientation of the object into a three-dimensional space, wherein the three-dimens... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099500 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098962 | Special effect image generating apparatus A special effect image generating apparatus provided with an image conversion processing circuit for posterization or other image conversion, a luminance and chroma condition setting circuit for image extraction by luminance and colors, a mask pattern generator for ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095449 | Special effect image generating apparatus A special effect image generating apparatus provided with an image conversion processing circuit for posterization or other image conversion, a luminance and chroma condition setting circuit for image extraction by luminance and colors, a mask pattern generator for ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091993 | Computer-implemented digital video object compositing A system and method are disclosed for digitally compositing an object from an input image onto a destination image. The object is composited from an image having an arbitrary or non-uniform colored background containing some non-static elements onto a destination im... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084909 | Electronic camera, imaging system and imaging method An electronic camera comprises imaging means for imaging an image of an object, first image creating means for creating a first image based on the image imaged by the imaging means, operating means for setting information indicating a predetermined process, first tr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075556 | Telestrator system A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7015977 | Special effect image generating apparatus employing selective luminance/chrominance condition setting A special effect image generating apparatus provided with an image conversion processing circuit for posterization or other image conversion, a luminance and chroma condition setting circuit for image extraction by luminance and colors, a mask pattern generator for ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010161 | Image processing device, image processing method, and computer readable medium storing program for image color correction with priority to one of color reproduction and brightness An image processing device 20, which provides an image input signal having been subjected to a desired color correction using a color correction table to an image output device, stores in a color correction LUT storage section 20c a color correc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006155 | Real time programmable chroma keying with shadow generation A system for forming composite video images from one or more foreground images and one or more background images. In one embodiment, s sum of a suppressed foreground image signal with weight α, with one or more selected foreground colors suppressed, and a backgroun... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6970595 | Method and system for chroma key masking A method for chroma key masking including for a given pixel color, calculating a quadratic function of the pixel color coordinates based on a prescribed chroma key color, the quadratic function corresponding to an ellipsoid in a color space, generating a substantial... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961097 | Image processing apparatus In an apparatus for composing image data of a main picture and image data of a sub-picture by a chroma key process, an attribute of an image contained in the sub-picture is detected, a partial area of the sub-picture is set as a chroma key mask area in accordance wi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6927803 | Video mixing apparatus and method of mixing video A video mixing apparatus carries out a chromakey process producing less degradation of picture quality by generating a key signal which separates a foreground object component from a screen component by using luminance information. In a three-dimensional color space... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928187 | Secondary color modification of a digital image An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further,... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924821 | Processing pipeline responsive to input and output frame rates An image processing system processes image data in response to a sequence of image processing steps defined by a process tree (800). The process tree comprises a plurality of interconnected nodes (801-813), including input nodes (801-804) and at... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6909451 | Method for generating video programs, variants, and system for realizing this method The invention relates to television, interactive television, user interfaces, video conferences and may be used in the creation of video programs with interactive interaction between participants of video programs and objects generated by a computer program. The tec... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903782 | System and method for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image There is disclosed an apparatus for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image. The apparatus comprises: 1) an input buffer for storing video frames of an incoming video signal; 2) a segmentation controller capable of segmenting a first stored frame... | 06/07/2005 |
