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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7800698 | Weight adjustment in color correction Automatic weight adjustment (AWA) to derive an optimal color correction matrix may address unbalanced color reproduction performance among different illuminations and/or unbalanced color reproduction performance for specific memory colors. AWA may emphasize particul... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787055 | Signal processing method, image display apparatus, and television apparatus A signal processing method comprises the steps of: inputting three signals specifying a color of one pixel; and generating four signals from the input three signals, wherein each of said four signals represents intensities of four different colors to display a color... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7372323 | Resonance limiter circuits for an integrated circuit In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises resonance limiter circuits coupled to a power supply connection of the integrated circuit. The resonance limiter circuits are configured to detect oscillation on the power supply connection at a resonant frequency, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365798 | Video signal identification device and video signal identification method The procedure of the invention acquires a maximum RB value, which is a largest value of an R signal component and a B signal component, on the assumption that the signal format of an input video signal is an RGB signal, and obtains an RGB probability corresponding t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365770 | Video signal level display device The present invention reduces a burden on an observer. A video signal level display device includes setting sections (24, 25, 26) for setting maximum effective values corresponding to R, G, and B components, respectively, of an RGB component signal, calculati... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362383 | System, method and apparatus for utilizing a single video input of an electronic audio/visual signal receiver as an input for multiple video signal formats A system, method, and apparatus for utilizing a single video input for receiving multiple video format signals in an electronic video receiver. The single video input includes a set of inputs to accommodate a component video signal from any one of a multitude of vid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7321402 | Apparatus and method for component video signal conversion Apparatus and method for converting a Y-Pb-Pr component video signal to a R-G-B component video signal. A luminance component video (Y) signal and a red color difference component video (Pr) signal are decoded to produce a red component video (R) signal. The Y signa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7227584 | Video signal processing system A video signal processing system for processing a video data VIN and graphic data DμP includes a filter unit, which receives the video data VIN. The filter unit filters the video data VIN to convert the video data VI... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212250 | Method and apparatus for providing on-screen displays for a multi-colorimetry receiver An apparatus and a method for adjusting the colors of the on-screen display graphics to match the colors of the video with which the OSD graphics are to be combined. In one aspect, a selected one of a plurality of OSD color palettes (103, 105) is used to prod... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209189 | LCD-TV capable of receiving two or more display signals A LCD-TV capable of receiving two or more display signals is discloses. An indicator is provided with the LCD-TV to emit light of a specific color corresponding to a display signal when the display signal is displayed on a LCD panel of the LCD-TV. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209185 | Universal mounting technique for video matrix switching with chassis volume reduction A video signal connection apparatus comprises an array of individual video signal connector contacts arranged in a matrix having connector contact rows and connector contact columns, the individual video signal connector contacts extending in a first connection ‘d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7190694 | Communications system A communications system connected via a bus capable of transmitting multiplexed packets of control signals and AV signals while providing an environment, which is the same as an environment where connections are made using analog signal lines. A register with a fixe... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184008 | Liquid crystal displaying method A liquid crystal displaying method includes: multiplying, a difference value of luminance information and a difference value of color-difference information each by an emphasis coefficient α (α is a positive real number); adding the luminance information in which ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7151771 | Communications system A communications system connected via a bus capable of transmitting multiplexed packets of control signals and AV signals while providing an environment, which is the same as an environment where connections are made using analog signal lines. A register with a fixe... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136083 | Display method by using sub-pixels A display method includes obtaining three-times magnified image data, which is made up of sub-pixels and with which a raster image to be displayed currently is magnified by three in the first direction. A filtering process on the three-times magnified image data is ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7126614 | Digital, hardware based, real-time color space conversion circuitry with color saturation, brightness, contrast and hue controls A hardware-based circuitry for digital processing for color saturation control circuitry, brightness control circuitry, contrast control circuitry, and color hue control circuitry, some or all of which can be added to the luminance/chrominance (Y/C) signals to the r... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7110616 | Device for processing images, in particular medical images A device for generating fusion images by fusioning two images, in particular medical images, comprising an image-processing computation unit (2) for fusioning the images, as well as a monitor (3) connected thereto for image output, a gray-value histogr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7095438 | Image signal processing device for minimizing false signals at color boundaries An image signal processing device of the present invention includes an RGB-YC conversion for converting color component signals output from a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor to luminance signals and components thereof lying in a high frequency range. The lu... | 08/22/2006 |
| RE39161 | Arrangement for mapping colors between imaging systems and method therefor A color mapping method is used in transforming colors between color imaging systems. The method includes using forward transformation profiles that characterize the color imaging systems to generate respective sets of device-independent color values for the color im... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071977 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068327 | Video encoder and image processing system using same A video encoder capable of adjusting output levels and more effectively utilizing performances of later devices, provided with a level adjustment circuit for adjusting output levels of an input luminance signal, color signal, and composite video signal by adding DC ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061538 | Image-information converting apparatus and method, image displaying apparatus and method, coefficient calculating apparatus and method, coefficient-data storing apparatus, apparatus and method for detecting part where picture quality is degraded, recording medium, and program The absolute value of the difference between each of the pairs of pixel values of a target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the target pixel, a pixel that is left-adjacent to the target pixel and an upper pixel with respect to the left-adjacent pixel, the le... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046394 | Facsimile apparatus Having a memory card input and output unit, data conversion management means for judging the type of image data receivable at the destination side, first converting means for converting from the YCbCr format used in the memory card into the RGB format, second conver... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7034894 | Digital-to-analog conversion multiple-format video encoder A multiple-format video encoder stores values of the sine and cosine functions in a ROM. According to the externally specified video format, an address calculating circuit calculates the addresses at which to access the ROM. In the multiple-format video encoder, a l... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027102 | Software decoding of composite video without a phase-locked loop A software decoder for converting standard composite video to RGB color components without a phase-locked loop. Subcarrier phase recovery for each video line is accomplished by performing a single DFT computation on the color burst samples for the frequency closest ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023496 | Moving picture decoding display apparatus and method for controlling a video signal's contrast and brightness when a video signal update is detected In a moving picture decoding display apparatus and moving picture decoding display method according to the present invention, moving picture decoder 101 decodes a moving picture signal, RGB matrix manipulation section 103 converts the decoded video sig... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006159 | Adapter circuit for audio and video signals A circuit arrangement includes at least one adapter circuit (10). which amplifies an analog input signal of a low current (Ii) by an amplification factor (n) into a particularly analog output signal of a higher current (Io). The adapter ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6975308 | Digital picture display frame The present invention provides a picture frame for displaying digital images taken by a digital camera. The invention may be a wall mounted frame or a desk top frame. The invention includes a display, such as an active matrix display for rendering images for viewing... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967692 | Apparatus for processing luminance signal A luminance signal processing apparatus that detects an average luminance level, adaptively to various video signal formats. This luminance signal processing apparatus includes a window pulse generation unit 101 for generating a window pulse signal S110 | 11/22/2005 |
| 6958782 | Frequency converter There is provided a frequency converter for suppressing generation of an image signal using a simple adaptive algorithm. In the frequency converter, an orthogonal converter 21 converts an RF/IF signal to a complex signal along with frequency conversion and AD... | 10/25/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6940559 | Color reproduction correction circuit for color representation and a color display The color reproduction correction circuit which corrects the color distortion caused when color signals using the first combination of the three primary colors are reproduced in a color display of the second combination of the different primary color sources has bee... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6927778 | System for alpha blending and method thereof A system for generating and applying alpha values is discussed. Different sets of alpha values are generated and stored for each color component of a set of image data associated with a foreground object. A graphics-processing engine processes the foreground object ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924819 | Image processor An image processor includes: a color conversion unit for converting an input signal to color signals of at least four colors; a gamma correction unit for performing gamma correction on the color signals; a binarization unit for binarizing the color signals through c... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6914638 | Three-dimensional enhancement processing for television broadcasting signals A method and an apparatus of decoding a television broadcasting signal are disclosed. In one embodiment, an improved video decoder converts the video signal into a digitized video signal. The improved video decoder then separates luminance information and chrominanc... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6828982 | Apparatus and method for converting of pixels from YUV format to RGB format using color look-up tables Pixels in a YUV format including a Y component representing luminance and U and V components representing chrominance are converted into a RGB format including R, G, and B components respectively representing red, green, and blue colors in order to display images on... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6822694 | Signal processing apparatus According to the signal processing apparatus of the present invention, in a text signal processing circuit, predetermined signal processes are executed to a luminance signal Y and color difference signals U and V in which a ratio of sampling clocks is equal to (4:4:... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6791620 | Multi-format video processing Video signals in different video formats are managed by inputting and outputting video signals via multiple channels and inputting a user selection of a video format for each channel. Then, a video signal input via a first channel is automatically converted into the... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6757015 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus is provided, in which the charges of four pixels that are adjacent in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction are mixed and output, and combinations of pixel mixings in the horizontal direction are changed at each line, so that... | 06/29/2004 |
