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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7440036 | Television receiver that produces a contracted image Even when a user is by the immediate side of a screen of a large screen television receiver such as a plasma TV receiver, the user can view an image displayed on the screen entirely by contracting the image to be displayed, and power consumption of the television re... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7411628 | Method and system for scaling, filtering, scan conversion, panoramic scaling, YC adjustment, and color conversion in a display controller Techniques for performing panoramic scaling are disclosed that reduce visible distortion in a panoramic image. Further, techniques for performing combined YC adjustment and color conversion are disclosed that reduce the size and power requirements of video manipulat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408590 | Combined scaling, filtering, and scan conversion Techniques for performing combined scaling, filtering, and/or scan conversion are disclosed that reduce that amount of line buffer space required in the overall design of a video processing system. In particular, coefficients from all or a sub-set of the scaling, fi... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408589 | Video signal processing circuit, video display, and display driving device Provided is a video signal processing circuit capable, in a scale conversion, of rendering a circuit scale small and alleviating a deterioration of a vertical resolution. A vertical scaler is provided with a function of increasing the number of scanning lines of an ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400360 | Device for simultaneous display of video at two resolutions with different fractions of active regions An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a decoded video signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate (i) a first video output signal having a first resolution and (ii) a second video s... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7349621 | Information recording apparatus with selective control of recording medium and recording means drive means An information recording apparatus has a stop mode in which only recording means comprised of a rotatable drum on which a recording head is mounted and recording medium driving means comprised of a capstan/pinch roller are stopped, which stop mode can be changed fro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7269342 | Video signal reproducing device The image signal reproduction apparatus for reproducing a main image signal including either a first type of image signal obtained by converting a film material image into an electrical signal or a second type of image signal including a video signal as a material t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245316 | Method and system for maintaining even tube burn-in An arrangement for maintaining even tube burn-in. The arrangement identifies active and inactive display regions on a display unit when video content is displayed on the display unit. When inactive display regions are identified the arrangement monitors the duration... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7215378 | Method for centering and dimensioning an image on a cathode-ray tube A method for centering and dimensioning an image on a cathode ray tube receiving display signals supplied by a display calculator includes measuring durations of vertical black edges of the image, and modifying adjustment values for a horizontal centering of the ima... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209180 | Video output device A video output device adds a blank on both left and right sides or both upper and lower sides of an input video to produce a video having the same aspect ratio as that of the display screen of the display device, when an aspect ratio of the input video and an aspect... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206136 | Digital camera using multiple lenses and image sensors to provide an extended zoom range A digital camera includes a first image sensor, a first wide angle lens for forming a first image of a scene on the first image sensor; a second image sensor, a zoom lens for forming a second image of the same scene on the second image sensor, a control element for ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187220 | Memory clock slowdown Circuits, methods, and apparatus for slowing clock circuits on a graphics processor integrated circuit in order to reduce power dissipation. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a graphics processor having two memory clocks, specifically, a swit... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7149369 | Method and system for image scaling A method for image scaling. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for image scaling that begins by selecting an input pixel from a first image. An input edge characteristic is determined from an input window associated with the inp... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129981 | Rendering system and method for images having differing foveal area and peripheral view area resolutions A client-server arrangement for camera viewing using digital cameras across a computer network. A camera server controls a motorized gimbal which determines the viewing angles of a set of cameras according to signals from a client computer which is equipped with an ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113211 | Video signal processing circuit, viewfinder apparatus, television camera, and image monitor apparatus A video signal processing circuit, which performs contour adjustment by means of digital signal processing, is applicable to a viewfinder apparatus for a television camera and an image monitor apparatus, which can be operated both in an NTSC/PAL system and an HDTV s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095446 | Method and device for phase correction of a vertically distorted digital image A device for correcting the phase of a vertically distorted digital picture receives picture data and a vertical phase correction signal, and assigns lines of the digital picture to a first half picture and to a second half picture. The lines of the second half pict... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7042473 | Method and system for displaying markup language based pages on handheld devices A method and system for displaying an markup language based Web page on a handheld device having a relatively small display is disclosed. The method includes loading a Web page designed for viewing in, for example, SVGA resolution. The page is stored in a virtual me... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6868192 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium To provide an image processing apparatus in which even in case of a laterally-wide or vertically-long image, the user can easily and certainly recognize the image by its thumbnail display, there is disclosed an image processing apparatus constructed in such a manner... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6774952 | Bandwidth management The invention relates to a method and apparatus for vertically scaling a video picture comprising receiving and storing lines of a video frame of a video picture, reading lines of the frame into linestores, applying the lines to a vertical filter and providing an ou... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6741294 | Digital signal processor and digital signal processing method A digital signal processing apparatus for parallel executing a plurality of data processes with a single common command is disclosed, that comprises a plurality of input storing means, each of which is composed of a plurality of storing elements, an input controllin... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6704056 | Horizontal deflection circuit and television receiver A video signal conversion part of a horizontal deflection circuit deletes a prescribed number of horizontal scanning lines from a vertical blanking interval of an input video signal and assigns a time corresponding to the deleted horizontal scanning lines... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6584237 | Method and apparatus for expanding image data An expanded-image generating apparatus is provided for original image data, in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, so as to obtain expanded-image data partitioned into a plurality of blocks, each of which is composed of a plurality of pix... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6420076 | Method and apparatus of inspecting foreign substance on substrate surface This invention comprises an inspection method conducted by rotary-coating a photoresist on the surface of a semiconductor substrate, irradiating ultraviolet rays using an exposure instrument such as a stepper, exposing the entire photoresist, removing the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6400413 | Image process apparatus, image process method and computer-readable storage medium Input image information from an input terminal is stored in a line buffer for several lines and smoothed, and then an interpolation value for plural pixels is obtained by an interpolation unit. Further, maximum and minimum values are detected from informa... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6388711 | Apparatus for converting format for digital television A format conversion apparatus for a digital TV includes a block division and control signal generating part for dividing an input image into a plurality of blocks according to an input image size data and an output image size data. A format conversion coe... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6356315 | Sampling rate conversion using digital differential analyzers Magnification/reduction is achieved by a single FIR filter under the control of a Digital Differential Analyzer (DDA) as would be used to simulate a perfectly straight line on a two-dimensional raster. The single FIR filter combines the processes of inter... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6323915 | Method and apparatus to enhance a border area of a display A method and apparatus for displaying a video signal is described. A first video signal is received representing a first image having a first aspect ratio. The first image is displayed on a display having a second aspect ratio and a display area, with the... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6288752 | Video equipment for displaying a picture screen in an arbitrary size at an arbitrary position on a display screen The present invention is to reduce the change of the position of a picture screen due to the magnification/reduction of the picture screen and occurrence of losing a part of the picture screen. The picture screen signal of a main picture screen is switche... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6262779 | Display apparatus with circuit expanding horizontal retrace interval of horizontal deflection current A display apparatus for a television or computer terminal having a cathode ray tube with a deflection coil. The display apparatus includes a signal processing circuit which compresses a display period in a horizontal scanning period of an input video sign... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6256069 | Generation of progressive video from interlaced video The generation of progressive output video from interlaced source video is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a computerized system includes an interlaced source video and a progressive output video. The interlaced source video has a number of lin... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6226052 | Apparatus to adjust the amount of over-scanning of a displayed video image and method for controlling such apparatus An over-scanning amount for display of video images is adjusted by varying the amount of signal information by inserting or deleting pixels at spatio-periodic intervals along the horizontal scan. A judgement is made to determine if the over-scanning amoun... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6226046 | Video signal discriminating circuit and television receiver A discrimination about a standard screen or a wide screen is performed by a discriminating circuit in accordance with the presence or absence of upper and lower black stripes of a wide screen video signal. A video signal transmitted through a low pass fil... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6195134 | Horizontal electron-beam deflector, automatic frequency controller, and video signal receiver A horizontal electron-beam deflector capable of preventing circuits from being damaged due to disturbance such as electric discharge with a simple and small circuit configuration, wherein an AFC circuit inputs a control signal indicating a frequency from ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6191820 | Device and method for converting aspect ratio of video signal Device and method for converting an aspect ratio of a video signal, is disclosed, in which an aspect ratio of an image at an arbitrary position can be converted to an arbitrary value, the device including means for generating arbitrary mapping information... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188449 | Semiwide-screen television receiver A semiwide-screen television receiver which can provide a horizontally extended picture on a screen. The receiver receives and displays on a cathode ray tube (CRT) an image signal having a 12:9 screen aspect ratio (AR), and includes a cathode ray tube hav... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6181778 | Chronological telephone system A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6157414 | Image display apparatus for enlargement or reduction of an image using an interpolation process An image display obtains a high quality enlarged or reduced image, by making the output image almost the same level of the inputted image. An inputted image signal is transmitted to a discrete cosine transformer and transformed to frequency band informati... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6151079 | Image display apparatus having a circuit for magnifying and processing a picture image in accordance with the type of image signal The present invention relates to a video signal processing apparatus for converting video signals based on a desired transmission system such as NTSC, PAL, MUSE or any other system so as to conform to a display unit of a desired screen system such as XGA,... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6133960 | Field-based upsampling method for performing zoom in a digital video system A video processing system that processes vertical column of pixels from individual fields is disclosed. The video processing system processes pixels from an even field independent of the pixels in the odd field, and vice versa. The video processing system... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133956 | Dual standard video signals processor A video signal processor interpolating lines in a vertical filter (24) in dependence on whether the lines are of a 625 line frame or a 525 line frame. The interpolated lines are filtered in a horizontal filter (26). The resultant lines are vertically and ... | 10/17/2000 |
