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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111334 | Signal switching apparatus and control method of signal switching apparatus A signal switching apparatus includes: a video reference input block; a plurality of synchronous signal generating blocks; a plurality of video signal input blocks; a signal processing block; a video signal output processing block; a switching block; and a control b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8054384 | Method of auto-configuring audio-video signals and associated apparatus An AV switching method capable of auto-configuring a plurality of AV input signals and associated apparatus is provided. An audio-video detector capable of auto-configuring the AV input signals includes an audio-video detecting module, an impedance adjustment module... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8026981 | Method of intelligently selecting a signal source and associated apparatus A method of intelligently selecting a signal source and associated apparatus is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A display is activated. The display detects activities of a plurality of connection ports to determine at least one active video sourc... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7936400 | Signal processing apparatus and method A signal processing apparatus includes a signal processing unit for applying predetermined processing to a signal to be supplied. A parameter adjusting unit manually and continuously changes a parameter in processing the signals using the signal processing unit. At ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7898601 | System and apparatus for selectively terminating a video signal based on the presence or absence of a terminating device A system and apparatus are provided for selectively terminating an analog video signal depending on whether or not a terminating device is present. A conditional terminator receives an analog video signal from a video input and terminates the video signal in the abs... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7880816 | Input switching apparatus and television apparatus On a display unit, icons representing types of video signals supplied to respective ones of a plurality of input terminals are displayed. When a user operates a remote and selects an icon representing the type of desired video signal, a video image derived from the ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7825993 | Method and computer readable media for scanning video sources The present invention suggests a simplified and robust scanning method as a scenario for scanning video sources of a display device such as a TV or projector. The inventive method is attained by way of grouping the video sources and prioritizing the scanning priorit... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7812890 | Auto-configuration for instrument setting A system and method of auto-configuration for the instrument setting of a multimedia apparatus is disclosed. All available output modes are used to show multimedia information to a user by means of automatically switching and setting configurations among connected t... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804545 | Switched input video device A switched input video device has a switched input, video improvement circuitry and/or transcoder circuitry, and a switch for communicating a switched input to at least one of the video improvement circuitry and the transcoder circuitry. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7768578 | Apparatus and method of receiving digital multimedia broadcasting Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of receiving a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB). According to the invention, there is provided a storage buffer capable of temporarily storing each of the received DMB channel signals and the specific contents signals sel... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7733425 | Automatic picture conditioning based upon user input choosing a video label A method and apparatus for optimizing picture quality of a video signal. The method includes displaying a user menu having a plurality of choices of video labels; receiving a choice of video label from the plurality via an input from a user; translating the video la... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7683974 | Detection device for video/audio interface outlet and earphone line outlet A detection device and method commonly used for a video interface outlet and earphone line outlet is used to allow the detection device to detect whether a three- or four-terminals plug is inserted in the outlet. The detection device detects whether the impedance va... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7633560 | System and apparatus for selectively terminating a video signal based on the presence or absence of a terminating device A system and apparatus are provided for selectively terminating an analog video signal depending on whether or not a terminating device is present. A conditional terminator receives an analog video signal from a video input and terminates the video signal in the abs... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7586547 | Video signal switching apparatus and control method therefor The present invention is directed to a video signal switching apparatus having editing function to select an arbitrary video signal from plural video signals or carry out synthesis thereof, which allows an operation unit to be of modular configuration every respecti... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7573534 | Digital display appliance and method for outputting video data Disclosed are an apparatus and method for outputting digital video data in a display appliance. The digital video data outputting apparatus includes data converting units for converting various kinds of analog video signals into digital video data, an output signal ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561211 | Video/audio system A video/audio system includes a video/audio output unit (head unit) 1 for outputting video information and audio information to a monitor 5 or an audio transmitter 6; a video/audio output unit (external player) 2 which is connected to the... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551235 | Image switching apparatus and method of controlling image processing unit thereof An image processing unit of an image switching apparatus includes main circuit blocks (5a), (5b) and (6) and sub circuit blocks (5d), (5e) and (7). An operation unit in the image switching apparat... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7436457 | Analog/digital signal processor and analog/digital signal processing method An analog/digital signal processor outputting analog input signals without eliminating copy protection signals from analog input signals, analog input signals having been subjected to copy protection process such as macrovision without adding complicated processes. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7420622 | Image switching apparatus and method of controlling image processing unit thereof A main operation unit (2) is connected to a control unit (4) which controls image processing units (5) to (9), the main control unit (2) includes a setting means for setting the image processing units (5) to (9) to wh... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414674 | Method and apparatus for automatically switching between analog and digital input signals An entertainment system includes a digital television connected to a number of audio/video input devices. The television and at least two of the input devices support analog legacy communication schemes. The television is adapted to uniquely identify the analog outp... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400359 | Video stream routing and format conversion unit with audio delay An apparatus capable of establishing different video sample stream processing channels between a plurality of video sample stream inputs and a video sample stream output is described. The apparatus includes a multi-state routing network comprising wiring to route a ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372506 | Method and apparatus to display on-screen display user-guide information about status of external device A method and apparatus to display user-guide on-screen display information about a status of an external device on a display device connected with the external device may include attempting to detect a signal from the external device when the display device is in an... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369823 | Reception apparatus A comparison circuit 13x compares signals from demodulator circuits 11a and 11b and thereby compares the reception condition of the antennas 1a and 1b. The tuner circuit corresponding to the anten... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369157 | Video monitoring system using daisy chain A video monitoring system using daisy chain is disclosed. The video monitoring system can display a multiplexed image consisting of four or more pictures by bypassing video signals captured by a plurality of video cameras through several stages. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365706 | Image composition apparatus and method An image composition system includes an HMD (100) having a right-eye camera (110), a left-eye camera (111), a right-eye LCD (130) and a left-eye LCD (131) for displaying a real image, and the like, and an information processing app... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365803 | Method for marking label of external AV apparatus and apparatus using the same A method for marking a label of an external AV apparatus of the present invention includes displaying an external AV signal outputted from the external AV apparatus of the plurality of external AV apparatuses, and setting and displaying one label of an external AV s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365802 | Television receiver with isolated inputs Receivers (1) comprising television and radio inputs (11,12) for receiving television and radio signals and comprising switching circuits (2) with two first switches (21,22) to be activated in a first mode and located parallelly to the te... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359456 | Communication system and communication device A communication system for transmitting a transmission signal in digital form from a transmitter to a receiver is disclosed. The transmitter includes a modulation part modulating a carrier wave in accordance with the transmission signal according to frequency modula... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353322 | System and method for providing dynamic configuration ROM using double image buffers A dynamic configuration ROM which may be updated while linked to the serial bus and with little or no risk of publishing inconsistent configuration ROM information to the other nodes on the bus. The dynamic configuration ROM comprises first and second configuration ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352708 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. A method for determining a path to a senior border... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353284 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7327399 | Method and a circuit for deriving a synchronisation signal from a video signal A method for deriving a synchronisation signal (35) from a video signal comprises tracking the blanking level (107) of the video signal with first and second slice level signals (26, 27) and tracking the sync tip level (110) of the horizo... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324167 | High-quality twisted-pair transmission line system for high-resolution video A system comprising a first filter having an input and an output adapted to compensate for the characteristics of a first length of twisted-pair wire is disclosed. A first bypass path has an input and an output for bypassing the first filter. A second filter has an ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319807 | VCR and optical disk composite medium reproducing apparatus and medium control method using the same A VCR and optical disk composite medium reproducing apparatus include a key input unit for outputting a command signal upon receiving a user's selection command on an operation mode, and a controller that preferably directly selects a reproducing operation according... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319493 | Apparatus and program for setting video processing parameters A video signal processing apparatus 1 and a video processing parameter setting apparatus 2 comprise a video processing apparatus (visual mixer). A parameter value collectively specifying portion 3 specifies in accordance with the order stored in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317694 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method is disclosed for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus. The method comprises the acts of determining whether the node has a connection to a Legacy link layer; if the node determines that it has a connection to a Legacy link layer, then... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301559 | Measuring instrument for measuring video signal level and display device for displaying video signal level A measuring instrument is fed with a video output signal, and performs RGB processing on the video output signal to generate graphic data. A video signal level in the graphic data is measured and video signal level data is generated. Display data including the graph... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295248 | External synchronous signal generating circuit and phase difference measuring circuit An external synchronous signal circuit comprises: means for measuring a phase difference between the external frame synchronous signal (FRM_SYNC) and the frame synchronous signal (FRM) of the digital video signal; means for generating a signal (EXT_H) having the sam... | 11/13/2007 |
