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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7403761 | System and method for frequency translation using an image reject mixer Frequency translation, such as frequency up conversion of a video baseband or intermediate frequency to a desired frequency division broadcast channel, is provided utilizing a single sideband or image reject mixer and filtering having relaxed selectivity requirement... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7327404 | Methods and systems for color image processing Methods and systems of color image processing for color adjustments. Phase information of a received chrominance signal is detected and applied to adjust saturation and hue of the color by changing the magnitude and phase of the chrominance signal respectively. The ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310505 | Attenuation control for tuners A tuner includes an RF input with a signal level controller such as an attenuator that is provided to attenuate a signal from the RF input. A tunable RF filter provides RF band limiting and determines simultaneously the AGC bandwidth. An amplifier with resistive fee... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7268825 | Digital synchronizing generator A sync generator (genlock) (10) for frequency and phase locking an incoming video signal to a system clock (12) includes a digitizer (16, 22) for digitizing the incoming video signal to yield a digitized color sub-carrier burst component. A nume... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7236212 | System and method for providing a low power receiver design An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programable attenuation and a programable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circu... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7184724 | System and method for frequency translation using an image reject mixer Frequency translation, such as frequency up conversion of a video baseband or intermediate frequency to a desired frequency division broadcast channel, is provided utilizing a single sideband or image reject mixer and filtering having relaxed selectivity requirement... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7142254 | Self compensating video data amplifier and driver for broadcast data receiver The invention relates to improvements to the operation of a broadcast data receiver (BDR) and, in particular, to the provision of a video data amplifier and driver circuit for the processing of a received video data signal. The circuit includes a means for generatin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139037 | Circle correction in digital low-pass filter A filter circuit is provided which has a filtered input and an unfiltered input. The filtered input passes through delay elements to coefficient circuitry. The unfiltered input passes to the coefficient circuitry without passing through the delay elements. In this m... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7129994 | Television tuner having level of harmonics of oscillation signal suppressed low The level of the harmonics of oscillation signals for synchronous detection to be inputted to a mixer circuit for converting frequencies is suppressed low. A first integrated circuit component formed with a first mixer circuit for converting frequencies; a second in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123308 | Video data correction capable of exactly correcting hue, chroma and/or luminance signal An angle calculation unit calculates an angle formed by color difference signals R-Y, B-Y of each input pixel. Correction gain calculation units use the angle as a parameter to generate correction gains of hue, chroma, luminance (Y) gamma, and chroma (C) gamma for o... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098965 | Digital video signal processing system and method A digital video signal processing system which includes a scaler converting a video signal having a luminance signal and chrominance signals into a digital RGB signal, further including a hue adjusting part adjusting hue represented by the chrominance signals; where... | 08/29/2006 |
| RE38890 | Device for converting data using look-up tables A data converting device for converting data by employing a plurality of LUTs stored in a single memory device. The device generates, with reference to two or more LUTs sequentially, a converted output data corresponding to input data and converting level selected b... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6952239 | Sine generation circuit, phase shift circuit and tint adjustment circuit A phase shift circuit includes a first sine generation circuit generating a sine-converted output signal (sin θ) of the phase shift input signal (θ) and a reversed sine-converted output signal (−sin θ) of the phase shift input signal (θ), a cosine generation c... | 10/04/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937652 | Frame compression using radix approximation Digital video data streams that conform to standards such as the ITU-T H.263 and MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards are compressed to reduce the amount of memory needed to store these streams. Information for a sequence of frames is compressed by rounding and truncating lumin... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6888579 | Method and system for tint control for component video signals A method and system are provided for controlling tint of component video signals. The system includes a first input for receiving a first component video signal; a second input for receiving a second component video signal; circuitry including a first differential a... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6628342 | Video signal processing apparatus A video signal processing apparatus A comprises: an adder 107 for generating a second address value S106 which has a predetermined phase difference from a first address value S101 outputted by an address value output means 120 and outputting the same; a s... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6515714 | Hue adjustment circuit In a hue adjustment circuit for adjustment of a color difference signal by addition, subtraction, and multiplication of hue correction components (sin , cos ) generated from a sub-carrier signal and a color difference signal (R--Y, B--Y), th... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6411340 | Chrominance signal processing apparatus in video signal processing system A chrominance signal processing apparatus in a video signal processing system which has a simple configuration capable of achieving chrominance signal control and RGB transform functions using a single circuit. The chrominance signal processing apparatus ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6400416 | Single-chip digital cable TV/cable modem tuner IC A television receiver is provided including a first mixer having a first input adapted for receiving an input signal in a predetermined frequency range. It should be noted that the input signal may take the form of either a broadcast television signal, a ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400415 | System and method for predistorting signals to be amplified A system and method for predistorting a signal which is to be amplified by a non-linear amplifier. The system and method uses additional predistortion circuits to eliminate the predistortion caused by amplifier input circuits and amplifier output circuits... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6211923 | Device for correcting the color of a television signal according to NTSC standard A device corrects the chrominance parameters transmitted by a chrominance subcarrier of a television signal, by shifting the phase of two demodulation signals an angle, which depends upon the phase of the chrominance subcarrier. The demodulation signals a... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6124899 | Method and apparatus for encoding video color information The invention features furnishing a representation of the quadrature amplitude modulation of two input signals (e.g., U and V video signals) based on the phase of a reference signal (e.g., a color burst reference signal). The two input signals are scaled ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6046779 | Circuit arrangement for phase shifting a color signal prior to comb filtering and then cancelling the phase shift after comb filtering A circuit arrangement processes a color signal reproduced from a record carrier, preferably a video tape, and modulated on a carrier wave of a first carrier frequency (color-under signal). The color signal modulated on the first carrier frequency is appli... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6005562 | Electronic program guide system using images of reduced size to identify respective programs A technique for transmitting and receiving an electronic program guide which identifies programs that are to be transmitted. Electronic program guide (EPG) data includes image data representing images of reduced, less than normal, size to identify respect... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5995164 | Reduction of color transition distortions in NTSC/PAL encoder In a video encoder, the color distortion between pixels can be reduced by encoding the hue transition to limit very large hue (phase) transitions and encode a corresponding smaller phase transition. This produces fewer spurious colors between pixels durin... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5917555 | Composite video signal generator A composite video signal generator, which can be simply implemented using an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), is provided. The composite video signal generator according to the present invention has an oscillator for generating a clock sign... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5696941 | Device for converting data using look-up tables A data converting device for converting data by employing a plurality of LUTs stored in a single memory device. The device generates, with reference to two or more LUTs sequentially, a converted output data corresponding to input data and converting level... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5426468 | Method and apparatus utilizing look-up tables for color graphics in the digital composite video domain In a composite video system having a digitized composite video signal to be modified, wherein the digitized video signal has discrete values having sampling frequency Nfs where N is an integer greater than one, and fs is the color su... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5402181 | Method and apparatus utilizing look-up tables for color graphics in the digital composite video domain In a composite video system having a digitized composite video signal to be modified, wherein the digitized video signal has discrete values having sampling frequency Nfs where N is an integer greater than one, and fs is the color su... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5355172 | Method and apparatus for sampling a reference signal A method and an apparatus for sampling a reference signal so as to generate an error signal indicative of a phase error between an actual sampling phase and a desired sampling phase. The desired sampling phase is displaceable from an optimum sampling phas... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5355179 | Hue control without chrominance demodulation for PAL A hue control circuit for adjusting the color phase of a composite PAL television signal without demodulating the chrominance component of the composite PAL television signal uses a polyphase interpolator to change the phase of the modulated chrominance c... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5327174 | Device for displaying teletext data on one screen A device for displaying teletext information on a screen after decoding teletext data multiplexed into a composite television video signal for performing a full flash function by successively storing teletext data multiplexed into several flash picture pl... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5185657 | Color signal processing circuit with residual phase error correction A color signal processing circuit which includes a conversion unit for converting two color difference signals, which are equivalent to color difference signals obtained by color demodulation of a color signal by using two color difference axes intersecti... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5161005 | Hue control for color video systems A hue control circuit receives a video signal at an input terminal in the form of alternating multiplexed color difference samples Cb and Cr. The video signal is multiplied in a multiplier by a factor cos $c;, $c; representing a desired hue adjustme... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5153711 | Recursive video hue rotations to obtain a rainbow-like decaying after-image An apparatus creates a "rainbow-like" effect in a decaying video afterimage by including a chrominance phase rotator within a recursive video effects loop, so that the hue of the afterimage is recursively altered as it decays. The chrominance phase rotato... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5130787 | Color signal processing circuit with residue phase error correction A color signal processing circuit which includes a conversion unit for converting two color difference signals, which are equivalent to color difference signals obtained by color demodulation of a color signal by using two color difference axes intersecti... | 07/14/1992 |
| 4797732 | Subcarrier generating device for color signal processing circuit A continuous subcarrier signal generated by a voltage-controlled oscillator is supplied to a harmonic removal filter, where harmonic components contained in the continuous subcarrier signal are removed. The continuous subcarrier signal, whose harmonic com... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4710892 | Phase calculation circuitry in digital television receiver An angle from 0° to 45° is determined from an equation °=LK.iota.(tan ).iota., where .iota. is an index varying from 0 to n. The value of tan is arrived at by dividing the smaller of the I,Q magnitude values by ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4695875 | Automatic hue correction circuit An automatic hue correction circuit in a television receiver has been found. The present circuit forms a Q signal and an I signal by demodulated three color difference signals. Then, the present circuit compensates hue automatically by rotating demodulati... | 09/22/1987 |
