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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8068182 | Multiple frame grabber A system is presented that applies M×N×K computational units to calculating image parameters on N picture images captured simultaneously by N digital camera devices, where there are N groups of frame grabber units, each containing M frame grabbers in which there a... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7808560 | Video processing apparatus and data processing method A video processing apparatus includes a memory to store auxiliary video data therein; a data updating unit to transmit the auxiliary video data to be updated to the memory at a first transmission speed and update the auxiliary video data; a data processing unit havi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7573535 | Image data processing circuit Disclosed is an image data processing method capable of reducing visual discomfort perceived by users in the recovery from a receive error in a receiver. According to the image data processing method, in recovery processing of a video motion damper system in an imag... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7554612 | Method and system for buffering pixel data A method and system for buffering pixels of a pixel line such that complex processing circuitry between a horizontal format converter buffer and a horizontal format converter filter is not required. The horizontal format converter buffer includes multiple parallel c... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7460182 | Circuit for processing video signal including information such as caption A video signal processing circuit includes a frame memory to receive and store therein at a first rate each frame of a digital video signal in which additional information is assigned separately to each frame, a frame synchronization unit to read each frame of the d... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7436891 | Burst mode memory fetches when decoding compressed image data An image data decompression apparatus for decoding blocks of motion compensated non-intra coded data uses a memory (14) storing reference picture data. A decoding processor (12) decodes a current block of a generated picture using lines of previously d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432988 | Address generation for video processing A video processing system includes input and output address generators. The address generators are capable of generating linear addresses associated with data to be read from and written to a device. The linear address is converted to a random address so that data a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7391964 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391471 | Apparatus and method for merging vertical blanking intervals This invention teaches an apparatus and method for merging information transmitted in vertical blanking interval (VBIs) of several services into a single VBI. The system includes a pair of memories for each service wherein each memory is toggled between a read and w... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385649 | Video display apparatus and method In a video display apparatus and method, video data of video being displayed on a display unit are sequentially updated and temporality stored in a storage unit. The video data stored in the storage unit is written into an external storage medium according to a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379654 | Programmable video recorder backing store for non-byte stream formats The buffer of a programmable video recorder includes a backing store having a plurality of discrete temporary files that are configured to store non-byte streamed data, such as ASF data. The data stream includes a number of data samples that are each assigned a time... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375764 | Method and system for VFC memory management A method for managing vertical format converter line memories includes writing a number of first input video lines into the VFC line memories, writing an additional video line into the VFC line memories, and reading respective pixels of the first input video lines a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366468 | Wireless communication apparatus capable of wireless communication with public wireless network and wireless communication apparatus, and image communication apparatus capable of wireless communication with wireless communication apparatus The invention provides an image communication apparatus in which an image input unit for entering image and a portable communication unit capable of wireless connection with a public wireless network are constructed in separate manner and are rendered capable of mut... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349027 | Scan converter The scan converter comprises first and second memories 3, 7, a frame memory 5; having a write period and a read period, a video data input circuit 2 for writing data at a first transfer rate into the memory 3, a video data output circuit ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349029 | Method and apparatus for de-interlacing interlaced video fields originating from a progressive video source A method for de-interlacing an interlaced video signal includes generating a per-field motion pattern set for a subject video field, where the motion pattern set comprises a same-parity motion pattern and an opposite-parity motion pattern pair, providing a plurality... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342960 | Data storage unit for image compression device A data storage unit of an image compression device for compressing motion picture frame is provided. The data storage unit comprises: a previous frame field having a plurality of slices; a decoded frame field having a plurality of slices; and a current frame field h... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336317 | Frame rate conversion device, overtaking prediction method for use in the same, display control device and video receiving display device An overtaking prediction method of, when input and output of data to and from a common memory are being performed with an input frame frequency and an output frame frequency made different from each other, predicting a frame in which overtaking occurs between the in... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327332 | Plasma display panel video processing circuit and method and video display device and method using plasma display panel A video processing circuit for preventing generation of contour noise irrespective of varied directions of light emission schemes. A first video signal and a second video signal delayed by a predetermined field are received, a first motion detection result is output... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327329 | Dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel overdrive in an LCD panel based display In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by performing the following operations. A video vertical refresh rate of an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310648 | System for compression of physiological signals A method of optimizing retention of signal information from a physiologically generated digital signal is provided. The method can comprise steps of generating a digital signal from a physiological source, storing the digital signal into a memory location as a store... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307667 | Method and apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller A method and an apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller are described. The integrated high definition digital television controller includes two or more the following functions in a single chip: MPEG2 Transport, Audio and Video Decoders, Vi... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307669 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying streams with dynamically changing formats A system and method for displaying frames with dynamically changing display parameters is described herein. The display engine stores new display parameters detected by the decoder in one buffer of a ping pong buffer, while continuing to use another set of display p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301582 | Line address computer for providing line addresses in multiple contexts for interlaced to progressive conversion Presented herein is a system and method for a line address computer for providing line addresses in multiple contexts for interlaced to progressive conversion. A feeder fetches a first line from a top field, fetches a first line from a bottom field corresponding to ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287071 | Transaction management system The systems and methods described herein relate to a system for documenting transactions. A filter is provided that captures content associated with transactions. The filter may be configured to start and stop the capture at predetermined times, and may be further c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284262 | Receiver/decoder and method of processing video data A method of processing video data in a receiver/decoder including at least one port (31) for receiving data and memory means (40) including a data buffer area (45A0, 45A1) for storing incoming data for display, and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272298 | System and method for time-shifted program viewing A system and method for time-shifted viewing of broadcast television programs is disclosed. Simultaneous recording and playback are provided by using buffer storage as the source and destination of compressed or uncompressed digital video/audio programs. Full VCR-li... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262722 | Hardware-based CABAC decoder with parallel binary arithmetic decoding A binary arithmetic decoding apparatus includes first, second and third pairs of look-up tables and first, second and third multiplexers. The first multiplexer selects between the respective outputs of the two look-up tables of the first pair of look-up tables. The ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262818 | Video system with de-motion-blur processing A video system that performs TV signal decoding, deinterlacing, and de-motion-blurring for progressive scan flat panel display is introduced. The system embeds a frame buffer and a scaler for conducting format and resolution conversions for display panels of differe... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7250878 | Decoding device with multi-buffers and decoding method thereof A decoding device includes a variable-length decoding circuit, a first buffer, a second buffer and a DC/AC prediction circuit is disclosed. The variable length decoding circuit decodes a first block and a second block from a compressed media stream. The first and se... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7231359 | Configuring image storage devices to enable imaging services A removable memory device is configured and utilized to enable digital imaging services by establishing a service account which defines at least one digital imaging service to be provided using at least one digital image file captured by a digital camera, the servic... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7218845 | Reading image frames as files First selected image frames in a native format are read from a frame storage device (103) and are directly modified in response to a first process. Output signals are supplied to a display device (102) such that the display device displays a view of st... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209186 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for high speed real-time processing The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus includes: a first to a fourth writing FIFO unit and a first to a fourth reading FIFO unit (hereinafter referred to as “FIFO units”) for te... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7184101 | Address generation for video processing A video processing system includes input and output address generators. The address generators are capable of generating linear addresses associated with data to be read from and written to a device. The linear address is converted to a random address so that data a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181636 | Method of ensuring synchronous presentation of additional data with audio data recorded on a rewritable recording medium A recording medium and a method and apparatus for managing data are provided. The method includes recording additional data in a data file separate from a file containing main data and recording navigation information that links the main data and the additional data... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176930 | Reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling. In an embodiment of the invention, a frame buffer for a interlaced display is filled. Initially, a first... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176982 | Recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection A system and system for performing adaptive recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection on a video stream is presented. After processing a field pixels that were modified are stored in the field so that processing of later fields uses the modified pixels. F... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164448 | Method for scrolling MPEG-compressed pictures A method for scrolling MPEG-compressed pictures consists in decoding a sequence of pictures (34, 35, 36) or any two pictures to be viewed by a MPEG decoder (5) and storing the sequence of pictures (35, 35, 36) or any two pictures in MPEG decoder... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152072 | Methods and apparatus for importing device data into a database system used in a process plant A system and a methodology creates a mapping of a set of import parameters specifying a device in a first set of import data to a set of output parameters specifying the device in a first database. Such a mapping includes receiving the set of import parameters from ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151572 | Apparatus and method for processing predetermined program data An information-processing device receives and processes predetermined program data. The information-processing device includes an extracting unit for extracting image data and audio data of a program selected by a user, an obtaining unit for obtaining information re... | 12/19/2006 |
