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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5282019 | Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of a multicarrier digital television signal A method and apparatus for encoding a television source signal having a first bandwidth, into a frequency multiplexed signal having a narrower bandwidth and comprising a plurality of subcarriers modulated with digital information. Each of said subcarriers... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5278640 | Color modification utilizing two coefficients A pictorial image comprising pixels represented by a combination of density values in respect to first color components (R, G, B) is transformed to a pictorial image comprising pixels represented by combination of density values in respect to second color... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5227886 | Optical imaging/display CCD light valve and method A combined optical imaging/display device employs a liquid crystal light valve (LCLV) with a charge coupled device (CCD) input, and a photosensitive CCD or charge injection device (CID) array for receiving an input image and developing a corresponding sig... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5221962 | Subliminal device having manual adjustment of perception level of subliminal messages A method and apparatus for presenting subliminal visual and/or audio messages which allows user verification of message content and presence, as well as proper adjustment of message obviousness while accounting for ambient conditions and user sensitivitie... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220430 | Sound control signal detecting circuit for satellite broadcasting signals A sound control signal detecting circuit for a satellite broadcasting signals comprises a detecting portion for detecting control bits by carrying out shiftings for a predetermined number of times after the pulse code modulation sound signals are provided... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5214499 | System for making raster location adjustments on a multi-color display screen A system for making location adjustments on a display screen raster having horizontal and vertical lines crossing at crossing points includes a cursor which is moveable to the crossing points. The visibility of the cursor is enhanced because the horizonta... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5212555 | Image capture with spatial light modulator and single-cell photosensor An apparatus and method for capturing an image, using a spatial light modulator (SLM) 11 and a single-element sensor 15. The SLM 11 is an array of individually switchable pixel elements, which reflect light toward the sensor if switched to an "on" positio... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5204748 | Beam current limiting arrangement for a television system with picture-in-picture provisions In a color television system having picture-in-picture (PIP) capability, apparatus is provided for automatically modifying the operation of a beam current limiting (BCL) section while the small picture is being displayed to prevent the visibility of the s... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5202756 | Color signal processing apparatus using plural luminance signals Disclosed is a color signal processing apparatus in which at least three types of color signals corresponding to filters are received from a solid-state image pickup element on which at least three types of color filters are formed, and linear matrix conv... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5200824 | Luminance signal noise suppressor A luminance signal noise suppressor for suppressing noise of a video luminance signal automatically in a television receiver or the like in response to possible large noise which is detected as a high voltage by detecting high frequency components of an i... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5200814 | Video projector with optical color balance Disclosed is a projection lens system for use in an optical system for magnifying and projecting original images displayed on plural image display devices onto a screen through projection lenses provided in corresponding relation to the image display devi... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5200818 | Video imaging system with interactive windowing capability This invention relates to a method and apparatus for a system having a multisensor optical module with a large aperture angle, 180 degrees or more possible (360 degrees around), and an electronic interface which outputs two video or digital images of the ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5198897 | Continuous-motion line-assembly telecine with misregistration correction A continuous-motion line-array telecine has a solid-state sensor comprising linear array sensor elements (101, 201, 301). For multi-standard operation compensation is provided for vertical misregistration due to different linear array sensor positions as ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5198906 | Defective pixel compensation with memory using interpolation via plural sample-and-hold circuits A defect correction circuit for a solid-state imaging device, made up of a large number of charge-coupled devices, is disclosed. The correcting circuit includes a storage circuit for storing position data indicating the position of a defective pixel among... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5196924 | Look-up table based gamma and inverse gamma correction for high-resolution frame buffers An image display system includes an input to a source (10, 12, 14) of image pixel data wherein each pixel is expressed as an M-bit value within a non-linear range of values. A first LUT (16) is coupled to an output of the source for converting each M-bit ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5196936 | Ghost cancelling receiver using ghost cancel reference signal A ghost cancelling receiver using ghost cancel reference signal is constructed so that a ghost wave component is adaptively separated from a received video signal on the basis of the level of a noise component thereby to properly cancel the ghost.... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5196926 | Optical system for an LCD projector An optical system for an LCD projector comprising an illuminating device, an infrared filter, an optical system and a projecting lens comprises a 45° horizontally inclined blue light tranmission filter, a 45° horizontally inclined green light reflection... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5194952 | Video processing system having improved transition control and display A digital video processing system can generate a linear input signal which is representative of a linear transition between video signals. The system can also generate a non-linear signal representative of a non-linear transition and display the non-linea... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5185559 | Supply circuit for P-N junction cathode An electron emission device is provided in which a drive current for driving an electron emission element is maintained at a constant level. The device comprises a transistor having its base provided with a divided voltage. The electron emission element i... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5185665 | Apparatus for generating animated video insertions A video apparatus of the invention relates to some function, operation or the like in sets of plural character signals related to each other. When the function or the like is executed, each character within one set is output in sequence in a time series, ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5185664 | Method and apparatus for combining field and frame recursive noise reduction for video signals In order to obtain the benefits of benefits of field and frame recursive noise reduction while reducing the detriments thereof, a circuit arrangement includes a motion compensated frame recursive noise reduction circuit and a motion compensated field recu... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184225 | Television receiver with spot burn protection and after-glow suppression A television receiver includes a high voltage kinescope driver amplifier having an input for receiving a video signal and a further input for receiving a character input signal from a low voltage character amplifier. When switching from a "run" mode to a ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5184224 | Television projection screen having anti-static elements A transmission-type video projection television system employs a transmission-type screen for displaying an image projected from a rear projector for visual observation by an observer in front of the screen. The transmission-type screen has Fresnel and le... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5184222 | Wipe generator having start position and width controller A wipe waveform signal generating apparatus includes a wipe width generator generating a wipe width. A wipe waveform extended width holding device outputs a horizontal extended width and a vertical extended width. A wipe waveform calculator receives the w... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5181110 | Video signal processing circuit capable of enlarging and displaying a picture A video signal processing circuit capable of enlarging and displaying a picture and adapted for use in an apparatus in which a desired picture is selected, and a video signal representative of the desired picture under interlaced scanning is received, sto... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5181098 | Procedure and device for the automatic correction of skew, of color superimposition, and of image uniformity for television cameras The device for implementation of the invention procedure, a processor (2) is connected by a data bus (12) to a correction memory (3), a measuring circuit (9), and a digital-to-analog converter (4), and an adder circuit is connected to the output of the di... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5181102 | Television camera and display employing quincuncial scanning A television camera and display device, in which a transmission and reception utilizes quincuncial scanning (HDQ) with sub-sampling associated with an optical filter (9) for reducing the diagonal resolution of the image. The filter (9) prevents the foldin... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5181106 | Video line shelf arrangement in an optical fiber telecommunications network providing broadband switched video services A video line shelf arrangement allows for incremental growth in video channels provided to optical network units. The arrangement includes a number of video line shelves disposed vertically in a column. Each video line shelf includes a number of slots, wi... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5181099 | Composite video signal generator Disclosed is a composite video generator comprising a color signal generating means, a color selecting means and an output means, and further being provided with a color change detecting means and a low amplitude color signal generating means. The composi... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5179440 | Rear projection facetted dome A multi-facetted dome imaging system (10) utilizes rear projection imaging techniques to present a moving or still image to each screen facet (12). The trapezoidal facets (12) are arranged with a series of lower facets (16), upper facets (18), and a top f... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5177611 | Method and apparatus for canceling quadrature distortion as for video signals having in-phase and quadrature phase components High definition or enhanced television signals include supplementary information which is double-sideband modulated in quadrature with the picture carrier, and passed through an inverse Nyquist filter before being combined with a conventional vestigial si... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5175635 | Picture printing apparatus using multivalued patterns, binary patterns and dither patterns selectively A picture printing apparatus is disclosed which includes a picture type judgement means, and a best mode printing system is determined according to the judging result. A mixed mode picture including a binary picture element and a gradational picture eleme... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173778 | Television receiver having simplified functional selection and functional adjustment control In a color television receiver having a hand-held remote control apparatus, "function items" representing functions of the television receiver (i.e., brightness) and "adjustment items" for adjusting the level of a "function item" (i.e., bright to dark) ar... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5170260 | Selective deghosting of plural GCR-containing video signals A video-signal-distortion reducing apparatus comprising a filter circuit for selectively passing a broadcast television signal (BC signal) and a laser disc video signal (LD signal). The broadcast television signal has a GCR signal in 18H and 281H of its s... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5170253 | Subtitling apparatus with memory control codes interspersed with graphic data An apparatus for superimposing a video signal stored in a memory into a video signal which was photographed. A plurality of video signals to be superimposed are stored in the memory. Predetermined control codes are stored in the memory between the video s... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5168353 | Video distribution system allowing viewer access to time staggered indentical prerecorded programs System for distributing video programs includes a transmission system having a plurality of channels, includes a stored database representing a predetermined schedule including timing instructions. A computer is programmed to provide real time outputs in ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5168354 | Fast food drive-thru video communication system A communication system as set forth which is particularly suitable for a fast food drive-thru restaurant by which the patron may maintain eye-to-eye visual contact with the attendant located within the restaurant while selecting his various food items. Th... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5166791 | Video picture and waveform display with line selection A video monitoring device displays on the same CRT screen a picture format video signal and a graphic format of one or more selected horizontal lines in the video signal, the selected line being highlighted in the picture format. An intensity modulator, a... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5166798 | Color TV with satellite broadcast receiver internally installed A color TV with a satellite broadcast receiver internally installed is disclosed, and the apparatus includes: a tuning section, a satellite tuner, an FM detecting section, a TV tuner, a TV AM detecting section, a base band selecting switch, a low pass fil... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5166779 | Subcarrier to horizontal phase measurement and display for multiple video signals A subcarrier to horizontal sync (SC/H) phase difference measurement and display device for multiple sources of composite video signals includes a sample clock generator providing a sampling clock at a fixed frequency, a digitizer providing numeric samples... | 11/24/1992 |
