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| 8189116 | Digital television transmitter and method of coding data in digital television transmitter A pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data packets by coding the enhanced data packets for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data packets. A data formatter adds first null data into first place holders within each pre-processed enhanced dat... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189119 | Channel control techniques Techniques involving the reception of content are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a tuning detection module, a channel selection module, and a remote tuning module. The tuning detection module determines a local tuning of a user device. This determi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189106 | Video data transmitting and receiving apparatus, and video data transmitting and receiving method A video data transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a data transmitting module configured to be able to arrange video data in a first video format, into a valid data area of a first transmission format, and transmit the video data, and also to arrange video d... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184209 | Smart slate Techniques used for movie, video, or television production, including: generating production information about recorded data of one of: (1) audio sequence; (2) video sequence; and (3) audio and video sequences; tagging the generated production information with timin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174616 | Method and apparatus for transitioning from a first display format to a second display format A letterbox detector includes a detection module configured to determine aspect ratio changes in an input signal. A transition module is configured to transition between a plurality of display modes associated with the aspect ratio changes. A first display mode to a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164691 | VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159608 | System and method for detecting closed captioning data in an internet protocol television system A closed caption detection system includes a video line selector that outputs a selected line of a video signal, a luminance detector that outputs a luminance level of the selected line, and an alarm that compares the luminance level with a threshold level and provi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154656 | Capture buffer control methodology for caption carriage switch A system, method, and computer readable medium for avoiding underflow of a caption buffer in a digital video encoding device. The method receives a sequence of digital video frames, and captions that correspond to the digital video frames in the sequence. The method... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154662 | Television and method for providing auxiliary information A method for outputting alert information. The method includes selecting broadcasting signals by a tuner of the television in response to channel selection signals from a microprocessor of the television; determining whether digital baseband signals being received f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149332 | Method and system for using a subset of receive operations for detecting digital and analog television signals Aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a television system using a subset of receive operations for detecting digital and analog television signals are provided. The system and method may be deployed in, for example, cable TV set-top boxes, cable T... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144264 | Image processor, image display device, image processing method, image display method, and program An image processor that corrects image signals corresponding to sub-pixels which form one pixel includes: a shift amount storage section that stores shift amounts of display positions of display sub-pixels corresponding to the sub-pixels which form a display pixel w... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139151 | Moving image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program A frame image is generated by combining a current field image and a preceding field image as a first candidate image. A frame image is generated by combining the current field image and a succeeding field image as a second candidate image. A frame image is generated... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134643 | Synthesized image detection unit A high quality image is achieved by reducing the occurrence of combing noise in a synthesized image having an inserted image of a different frame frequency. A feature amount of a screen produced by an input interlace-scanned video signal is extracted, a film mode on... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130325 | Luminance level control device A scene change detecting circuit (1) detects a scene change of video. An average luminance level operating circuit (2) calculates an average luminance level (APL) of a video signal (VD). A luminance overdrive amount calculating circuit (3) calcu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130322 | Method of picture control and image processing apparatus thereof A picture control method and an image processing apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes setting a picture control mode; setting a picture control value in response to the picture control mode; and sensing a change of the picture control value; restoring... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130318 | Method and audio/video device for generating response data related to selected caption data A method for operating an audio/video device is presented. In the method, audio/video data, and caption data associated with the audio/video data, is received. The audio/video data is presented for display. An indication of a portion of the caption data is also rece... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125566 | Sequential scanning conversion device and method According to one embodiment, a motion detection correction module is provided which corrects the result of detection by a motion detector, which detects motion in one frame on a pixel-by-pixel basis, for each of small regions obtained by dividing the entire picture ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125565 | Image processing circuit and method thereof An image processing circuit generating a frame according to a plurality of fields including at least first, second and third fields, comprises a memory unit and a de-interlacing unit. The memory unit stores the first and second fields. The de-interlacing unit receiv... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120711 | Display system and method of controlling a display system A display system and a method of controlling a display system are provided. The display system may include a receiving device to transmit a power control signal across a wireless communication link according to a power on/off command inputted from a user, to receive... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111335 | Television listing remote control A television listing remote control. An illustrative embodiment of the television listing remote control includes a central processing unit and a port, a power source and a display connected to the central processing unit. The central processing unit is adapted to r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111336 | Correcting scanned projector distortion by varying the scan amplitude Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, scanned beam projector may comprise a light source, a scan drive and a scanning platform to project an image onto a projection surface. The scan drive circuit is capable of at least partially correcting distortion... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107007 | Image processing apparatus A technique for flexibly converting the number of frames of a displayed image on the basis of a motion in the image or information of an image signal such as a program genre is provided. An image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image signal h... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107008 | Method and system of automatically correcting a sampling clock in a digital video system A method and system of automatically correcting a sampling clock in a digital video system are disclosed. Sampling clocks with different phases are generated and subjected in turn to analog-to-digital conversion (ADC). A difference of at least a pair of neighboring ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107018 | Apparatus and method for providing image-correction function in projector Provided is an apparatus and method for providing image-correction function in a projector. The apparatus includes an image-inputting module which receives a photographed image of a surface on which an image is to be projected; an image-analyzing module which analyz... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102474 | Systems and methods for channel scanning Methods for channel scanning are provided. An embodiment of a method for channel scanning comprises scan progress information stored when interrupting a channel scanning process. A carrier RF subsequent to the most recently processed carrier RF is locked onto with r... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102468 | Display device and display method A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a numbers of sub-pixels corresponding to an amount of motion of a target image between a plurality of refere... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102473 | Image correction circuit, image correction method and image display An image correction circuit capable of preventing a loss of gray levels in a luminance region at the time of the direct current level conversion of a luminance signal to improve the quality of a displayed image. The image correction circuit detects an average peak l... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098337 | Systems and methods for automatic configuration of a remote control device A remote control device establishes a bi-directional communication with a television receiver and uploads a set of remote control codes associated with a target component selected by the user. One method includes storing, within a television receiver, a set of remot... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098329 | Image determination apparatus, image determination method, and program, and image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image determination apparatus includes a frequency band signal detecting unit, an average value calculating unit, a relative value calculating unit, and an image determination unit. The frequency band signal detecting unit detects signals belonging to a plurality... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094195 | Digital camera calibration method A method of calibrating a digital camera includes dispersing white light through a test device to generate a color dispersion image including a plurality of different wavelengths of light; capturing a test image of the color dispersion image; obtaining intensity val... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094234 | System and method for multistage frame rate conversion System and method for multistage frame rate conversion. A method comprises receiving an incoming frame at a first frame rate, and determining whether a fault condition exists. The method also includes if the fault condition does not exist, toggling a write buffer po... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089558 | Gamut error notifying device The object is to enable the user to selectively set the notification of a gamut error and notification deactivation condition. For this, a detection unit 3 detecting a gamut error of an input image signal, and a plurality of notifying units 5, 8 and | 01/03/2012 |
| 8072551 | Projector A projector includes a plurality of light modulation elements adapted to modulate a plurality of colored light beams based on image data, a combining optical system adapted to combine the modulated colored light beams to emit image light, and a projection optical sy... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072540 | Apparatus and method for low angle interpolation An apparatus of low angle interpolation is disclosed, which includes a low angle calculation circuit, a direction decision circuit, a post-processing circuit, an interpolator and a line buffer. According to a counterclockwise operating matrix and a clockwise operati... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072541 | Image processing apparatus and method for format conversion A signal processing apparatus converts interlaced 4:2:2-format video signals including a luminance component and two chroma components into interlaced 4:2:0 format video signals. A downsampling low-pass filter has such a group delay that a modulo-1 remainder of the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072544 | Video output apparatus and control method thereof There is provided a video output apparatus which inputs a video content that can have at least three different resolutions. A format detector detects an alteration of a resolution of a video content. A scaling processor scales up the video content at a set scale rat... | 12/06/2011 |
| RE42994 | Method for replacing parts of a digitally coded picture, and device for carrying out the method A method for replacing parts of a digitally coded picture (11) is proposed. The digitally coded picture (11) may correspond to a sub-picture which is displayed on the screen of a television set (10). In the method, each line of the picture (1... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072547 | Comb filter that utilizes host memory A comb filter system that utilizes host memory is disclosed. The comb filter system that utilizes host memory may include a comb filter. The comb filter system that utilizes host memory may include an allocated host memory. The comb filter system that utilizes host ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072546 | Method and apparatus for reducing cross-luminance in an image display device A method for reducing cross-luminance in an image display device includes receiving luminance signals of a plurality of frames in a composite video signal, determining a movement condition of a first frame of the plurality of frames according to the luminance signal... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068180 | AV processor and program The present invention is directed to provide an AV processing device and the like that allow mixing three or more AV signals through easy operation. According to the invention, an AV processing device 30 includes an input unit 310 inputting three or mo... | 11/29/2011 |
