Top 100 US Patents in Television
section h - electricity > electric communication technique > pictorial communication, e.g. television
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US6134373 (A), filed
Mon Nov 04 00:00:00 CST 1991
, published
Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
An encoder separates luminance and chrominance signal components of a composite video signal. The frame-to-frame changes in the luminance signal are detected, and a motion signal is derived therefrom. The higher frequency portion of the luminance signal is...
US5768269 (A), filed
Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 CDT 1998
- TERAYON CORP
A method and apparatus for carrying out synchronous codivision multiple access (SCDMA) communication of multiple channels of digital data over a shared transmission media such as a cable television system coaxial cable, a fiber optic or copper conductor...
US5651599 (A), filed
Fri Feb 24 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- SEIKO EPSON CORP
A projector for separating white light into three primary colors, forming images with liquid crystal light valves, mixing these images, and projecting an enlarged picture of the mixed images with a projection lens. The projector includes an optical unit having...
US5614952 (A), filed
Tue Oct 11 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 CST 1997
- HITACHI AMERICA LTD
Methods and apparatus for reducing the complexity of decoder circuitry and video decoder memory requirements are disclosed. The described video decoders are capable of decoding HDTV pictures at approximately the resolution of standard definition television...
US7050603 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue May 23 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizab...
US5758257 (A), filed
Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue May 26 00:00:00 CDT 1998
A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the...
US7024016 (B2), filed
Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
The present invention relates to various digital watermarking methods and systems. In one embodiment, a handheld device displays a digitally watermarked ticket image at an event center. At the event center, a watermark decoder extracts the watermark to...
US6947571 (B1), filed
Mon May 15 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 CDT 2005
- DIGIMARC CORP
A cell phone is equipped with a 2D optical sensor, enabling a variety of applications. For example, such a phone may also be provided with a digital watermark decoder, permitting decoding of steganographic data on imaged objects. Movement of a phone may be...
US5689641 (A), filed
Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 CST 1997
- VICOR INC
A multimedia collaboration system that integrates separate real-time and asynchronous networks-the former for real-time audio and video, and the latter for control signals and textual, graphical and other data-in a manner that is interoperable across different...
US5072311 (A), filed
Tue Feb 06 00:00:00 CST 1990
, published
Tue Dec 10 00:00:00 CST 1991
- CANON KK
A film image reading apparatus has a conveying section for sequentially conveying a plurality of film originals to a reading position, a reading section for reading an image of a film original conveyed to the reading position by the conveying section, a...
US5485195 (A), filed
Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jan 16 00:00:00 CST 1996
- XEROX CORP
Fast scan jitter in a ROS scanning system is substantially reduced by use of a multi-phase clock derived from a crystal oscillator. The rising edge of a start-of-scan signal is compared to the clock signal and the phase of that clock signal which is next in...
US5918013 (A), filed
Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- WEBTV NETWORKS INC
A method of providing a document to a client coupled to a server is provided. The server provides a number of Internet services to the client, including functioning as a caching proxy on behalf of the client for purposes of accessing the World Wide Web. The...
US6360057 (B1), filed
Fri Aug 04 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue Mar 19 00:00:00 CST 2002
- TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO
This invention allows the user to insert an entry point (bookmark) at an arbitrary recording position of video data, audio data, and the like as if he or she placed a bookmark between pages of a book. Information RTR_VMG that manages recorded objects includes...
US7477422 (B2), filed
Thu Mar 30 00:00:00 CST 2006
, published
Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 CST 2009
- CANON KK
When recording a gradation pixel by performing pseudo-halftone processing, the occurrence of unevenness in the density in the recorded image is suppressed. For that purpose, when recording a pseudo-halftone image using dot patterns, a dot-pattern table storing...
US5509072 (A), filed
Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Apr 16 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- CANON KK
A facsimile apparatus is provided with changeover means that makes it possible to pass signals through or to bypass a coder, which encrypts transmission information, and a decoder, which decodes encrypted information that has been received. Whether or not a...
US6753812 (B2), filed
Wed Jul 31 00:00:00 CDT 2002
, published
Tue Jun 22 00:00:00 CDT 2004
- ROSUM CORP
A computer program product, apparatus, and method for use in determining the position of a user terminal includes receiving at the user terminal a digital television (DTV) broadcast signal transmitted by a DTV transmitter; tracking a periodic component of the...
US6216265 (B1), filed
Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- STARSIGHT TELECAST INC
Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems (50A-50D) transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer (54) as packets via the Video Blanking Interval (VBI) lines in the TV signal from various...
US4439790 (A), filed
Wed Jan 13 00:00:00 CST 1982
, published
Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 CST 1984
- CANON KK
An image forming apparatus capable of eliminating unnecessary images other than the original image has a solid-state scanning device for reading an original and providing corresponding image information, a recording unit for recording on a recording sheet...
US7308110 (B2), filed
Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Dec 11 00:00:00 CST 2007
- DIGIMARC CORP
An image is marked by making slight changes to pixel values. These changes are essentially imperceptible on human scrutiny, but detectable by computer analysis. Such markings have applications in identifying ownership of images (including video), and also in...
US5576843 (A), filed
Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Nov 19 00:00:00 CST 1996
- TIME WARNER ENTERTAINM CO LP
A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects ("ME") track, or a switching master ME track....
US5287189 (A), filed
Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 CST 1994
- THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
A video display unit and deflection system are synchronized with a first video signal. A detecting circuit determines whether the first video signal has more than one field type. A second video signal has more than one field type. A multiplexer combines the...
US5515296 (A), filed
Wed Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue May 07 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- INTEL CORP
A scan path is generated using one or more two-dimensional sets of training signals. For encoding, a two-dimensional set of signals is encoded using the scan path. For decoding, a two-dimensional set of encoded signals is decoded using the scan path. In a...
US5526034 (A), filed
Mon May 03 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- ICTV INC
An interactive home information system having a node in television communication and data communication with a group of home interface controllers. At each home interface controller, there is a signal input for receiving television signals from the node over a...
US7321695 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 12 00:00:00 CST 2002
, published
Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 CST 2008
- RICOH KK
A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the...
US5610725 (A), filed
Tue Oct 10 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 CST 1997
- RICOH KK
A communication system includes: an image forming unit connected to a communication line through a communication control unit; and a management unit for managing data of resources of the image forming unit, the management unit being connected to the communicat...
US5721720 (A), filed
Fri Dec 22 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 CST 1998
- TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO
A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous...
US5434678 (A), filed
Mon Jan 11 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Jul 18 00:00:00 CDT 1995
This invention relates to a video system comprising integrated random access video technologies and video software architectures for the automated selective retrieval of non-sequentially stored parallel, transitional, and overlapping video segments from a...
US5870474 (A), filed
Fri Dec 29 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 CST 1999
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
A control system provides secure transmission of programs, including at least one of video, audio, and data, between a service provider and a customer's set top unit over a digital network. Program bearing data packets are recieved in a first network protocol...
US4547804 (A), filed
Mon Mar 21 00:00:00 CST 1983
, published
Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 CDT 1985
- GREENBERG BURTON L
An improved method and apparatus for identifying and verifying the proper airing of television broadcast programs is disclosed wherein from the television broadcast, it can be assured that the programs were televised and received properly and aired at the...
US6212278 (B1), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
A reprogrammable subscriber terminal of a subscription television service which can have the control program code of its control processor modified by downloading new program code from the headend. The control processor stores a boot program in an internal...
US5412720 (A), filed
Fri May 01 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue May 02 00:00:00 CDT 1995
- ICTV INC
An interactive cable television system having a plurality of feeder servers, a plurality of home interface controllers and a feeder port. Home interface controllers are each equipped with a radio frequency input and a data communications link with a receiver...
US6167188 (A), filed
Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 CST 1999
, published
Tue Dec 26 00:00:00 CST 2000
- STARSIGHT TELECAST INC
Screen (10) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array (24) of irregular cells (26), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The...
US6181870 (B1), filed
Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 CST 2001
- MATUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
An optical disc includes a data area for recording a plurality of video segments and index area for recording original type chain information and user-defined type chain information. The original type chain information defines an original type chain including...
US6443840 (B2), filed
Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Sep 03 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- RESPONSE REWARD SYSTEMS L C
A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, include an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, simulcast, or time-multiplexed with a television. At...
US5996317 (A), filed
Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue Dec 07 00:00:00 CST 1999
- PRIVATIZER SYSTEMS INC
A method for providing confidentiality to a facsimile transmission includes the step of advancing a back enclosure sheet into a print engine. The method further includes the step of advancing the back enclosure sheet out of the print engine and to an envelope...
US5887411 (A), filed
Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 CST 1999
- PRIVATIZER SYSTEMS INC
A method of positioning a number of non-transparent enclosure sheets in a document security apparatus includes the step of positioning a first non-transparent enclosure sheet on a first support. The method also includes the step of positioning a second...
US6564324 (B2), filed
Fri Dec 22 00:00:00 CST 2000
, published
Tue May 13 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
A reprogrammable subscriber terminal of a subscription television service which can have the control program code of its control processor modified by downloading new program code from the headend. The control processor stores a boot program in an internal...
US7051086 (B2), filed
Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue May 23 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
The present invention relates to linking on-line data to printed documents, such as business cards, envelopes, stickers, stationary, letterhead, résumés, etc. In one embodiment, a card-user registers with an on-line database and receives a gallery item...
US6700990 (B1), filed
Wed Sep 29 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Mar 02 00:00:00 CST 2004
- DIGIMARC CORP
To decode a digital watermark from an image notwithstanding geometrical corruption of the image (e.g., scale, rotation, etc.), a Fourier-Mellin transform is advantageously used. In a particular method, an image is transformed to the spatial frequency domain....
US4623930 (A), filed
Mon Dec 31 00:00:00 CST 1984
, published
Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 CST 1986
- MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
A camera apparatus comprising focusing means for optically focusing a beam of light from an object, an imaging element for converting an optical image produced by the focusing means into electrical or physicochemical information and issuing or recording the...
US5043830 (A), filed
Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 CST 1989
, published
Tue Aug 27 00:00:00 CDT 1991
- SONY CORP
US5550863 (A), filed
Fri Oct 08 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Aug 27 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- BROWNE H LEE
A system of distributing video and/or audio information employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression. The compressed and encoded audio and/or video information is sent over standard telephone, cable or satellite broadcast...
US6246827 (B1), filed
Thu Jul 08 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
A system for reproducing a luminance signal from a medium containing a previously recorded luminance signal with a high-frequency portion thereof compressed in dynamic range includes a circuit for recovering that luminance signal from the medium. Filtering is...
US6641046 (B2), filed
Mon Sep 24 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 CST 2003
- INTERMEC IP CORP
A reader for reading optical information is described which includes a housing for supporting a photosensitive array associated with an optical string adapted to focus optical information on the array. Also provided are array and optical string controls for...
US7391880 (B2), filed
Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- DIGIMARC CORP
The presently claimed invention relates generally to data encoding and steganography. One combination recites a method of encoding data representing color imagery with an auxiliary signal. The method includes: providing a set of encoding values for a data...
US5493513 (A), filed
Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Feb 20 00:00:00 CST 1996
- INTEL CORP
At least one region of each video frame is designated for intra encoding. One or more regions of each video frame are designated for inter encoding. One or more motion vectors are selected for each region designated for inter encoding, wherein at least one...
US6282383 (B1), filed
Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Aug 28 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- WEINBERGER GROUP L L C
A method of monitoring the operational status of and initiating image processing device control commands on one or more image processing devices from a remote location, said image processing devices each having a control computer for controlling operation of...
US6580869 (B1), filed
Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO
Upon playback of stream data which is recorded while being appended with time stamp information in units of packets, time management is made using the time stamp information. A video playback time viewed from the user, which may be indicated by I-, B-, and...
US7054493 (B2), filed
Wed Jan 08 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue May 30 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- RICOH KK
A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the...
US7437475 (B2), filed
Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- LV PARTNERS L P
A Method and apparatus for utilizing a coded audio/video signal to conduct commerce over the Internet. Broadcast information is broadcast from a remote location on a secondary network containing video over the secondary network to a location thereon proximate...
US6523079 (B2), filed
Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 CST 2003
- ELONEX TECHNOLOGIES INC
A personal digital assistant module with a local CPU, memory, and I/O interface has a host interface comprising a bus connected to the local CPU and a connector at a surface of the personal digital assistant for interfacing to a bus connector of a host...
US5282121 (A), filed
Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 CDT 1991
, published
Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 CST 1994
- VARI LITE INC
A high intensity light projector for stage, architectural and similar applications includes a controllable image quality projection gate providing advanced visual effects. The projection gate, capable of selectively scattering or transmitting incident light,...
US6850693 (B2), filed
Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 CST 2005
- STARSIGHT TELECAST INC
Screen (10) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array (24) of irregular cells (26), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The...
US7417753 (B2), filed
Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- IMAGING PORTALS INC
A method of monitoring the operational status of and initiating image processing device control commands on one or more image processing devices from a remote location, said image processing devices each having a control computer for controlling operation of...
US4182568 (A), filed
Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 CDT 1976
, published
Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 CST 1980
- LEVINE ALFRED B
A multiplexed electrostatic copier having plural separated scan stations for randomly receiving and scanning documents to be copied, and a common developing mechanism for electrostatically making copies of the scanned images, and identifying and delivering the...
US7043052 (B2), filed
Tue Jun 04 00:00:00 CDT 2002
, published
Tue May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Security of photographic identification documents is enhanced by embedding within the photographic image encoded information that may be correlated to other information pertaining to the individual represented by the image, such other information being, for...
US5917615 (A), filed
Thu Mar 31 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- MICROSOFT CORP
A user interface simplifies operation of a intelligent facsimile machine (IFAX). A display screen displays a plurality of menus and allows the user to select from the menus. The IFAX can store a plurality of digital cover pages to minimize transmission time...
US6985600 (B2), filed
Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue Jan 10 00:00:00 CST 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Stationery, or other printable media, is encoded with a digital watermark. The watermark is not conspicuous to a human observer of the media, yet conveys plural bits of auxiliary information when optically scanned and digitally processed. The watermark can be...
US7333957 (B2), filed
Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 CST 2008
- DIGIMARC CORP
Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context...
US5995705 (A), filed
Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 CST 1999
- INSTANT VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES INC
An improved video recorder/transceiver with expanded functionality ("VCR-ET") including a capability for storing video and video programs in digital format, editing such programs, transferring such programs onto a hard copy magnetic media, and transmitting...
US5822021 (A), filed
Tue May 14 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 CDT 1998
- COLORLINK INC
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display system in which a pair of transmission displays are used with a light source, and coupling optics to provide a small, high resolution optically efficient color imaging system. A preferred embodiment of...
US6215464 (B1), filed
Tue May 11 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 CDT 2001
A two dimensional display panel produces a time variable image composed of light emitting pixels. The pixels are generated by a light emitting phosphor distributed within the panel, the pixels radiate light in response to being excited by charging and...
US4531164 (A), filed
Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 CST 1982
, published
Tue Jul 23 00:00:00 CDT 1985
- CANON KK
A video system comprising a video camera and a recording device to record video signals obtained by the video camera. The recording device includes a video tape recorder (VTR) which may be combined with the video camera when recording and otherwise may be...
US4912760 (A), filed
Thu Mar 10 00:00:00 CST 1988
, published
Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 CST 1990
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
Off premises cable television interdiction apparatus comprises a microprocessor actuation and control means for actuating and controlling a plurality of frequency agile voltage controlled oscillators. The voltage controlled oscillators selectively jam only...
US5845021 (A), filed
Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 CST 1997
, published
Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 1998
- TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO
A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous...
US5626409 (A), filed
Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue May 06 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- SEIKO EPSON CORP
PCT No. PCT/JP94/00419 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 4, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 4, 1995 PCT Filed Mar. 16, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/22042 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 1994A projection-type display apparatus includes a light source, a uniform illumination optical system, a...
US6061504 (A), filed
Mon Jun 10 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- EMC CORP
A video file server includes an integrated cached disk array storage subsystem and a plurality of stream server computers linking the cached disk storage system to the data network for the transfer of video data streams. The video file server further includes...
US6567533 (B1), filed
Thu Apr 27 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue May 20 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- DIGIMARC CORP
To permit scaling or rotation of an image to be discerned-even if the original image is not available-certain marker signals are steganographically encoded in the image. In one particular implementation, encoding is effected by adding an overlay signal to the...
US5754250 (A), filed
Mon Dec 04 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue May 19 00:00:00 CDT 1998
This invention is a method and apparatus for identifying and separating the synchronizing signal component of video like signals by identifying or detecting the arrangement or sequence of the known occurances of events or patterns of the sync. The invention...
US5412779 (A), filed
Thu Jul 28 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue May 02 00:00:00 CDT 1995
- RICOH KK
A method and apparatus for controlling and communicating with business office devices, such as copiers, facsimiles and/or printers. The present invention communicates and controls various modules of business devices which allow an external device such as an...
US5636292 (A), filed
Mon May 08 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- DIGIMARC CORP
An identification code signal is impressed on a carrier to be identified (such as an electronic data signal or a physical medium) in a manner that permits the identification signal later to be discerned and the carrier thereby identified. The method and...
US5636292 (C1), filed
Mon May 08 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jun 18 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- DIGIMARC CORP
US4963900 (A), filed
Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 1989
, published
Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 CDT 1990
- IBM
US5949954 (A), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Sep 07 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- STARSIGHT TELECAST INC
Screen (10) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array (24) of irregular cells (26), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The...
US5151789 (A), filed
Thu Oct 17 00:00:00 CDT 1991
, published
Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 CDT 1992
- INSIGHT TELECAST INC
A system (10) interfaces a cable televisions decoder (12) to a VCR (14) incorporating a television scheduling system. The cable signal is supplied to the cable decoder (12) on cable (16) and the decoded output of the decoder (12) is supplied to the VCR (14)...
US5596565 (A), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jan 21 00:00:00 CST 1997
- SONY CORP
Method and apparatus for recording MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data on an optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm+/-0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits...
US5315323 (A), filed
Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 CST 1992
, published
Tue May 24 00:00:00 CDT 1994
- RICOH KK
An electrostatic plotter or similar color image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium, e.g. a paper web being transported under tension by a transport roller pair by a head while sensing a register mark formed on the medium. The distance...
US5353121 (A), filed
Fri Mar 19 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Oct 04 00:00:00 CDT 1994
- STARSIGHT TELECAST INC
A schedule system utilizing a background display. The schedule system provides a background schedule information system in which the background schedule information is displayed over a portion of a television screen in response to activation. A primary...
US6104863 (A), filed
Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
In video tape recording apparatus composite video signals are separated into their luminance and chrominance components for processing prior to recording. The luminance components are digitized, adaptively temporal and spatial filtered, and folded into a...
US7003132 (B2), filed
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 CST 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Methods for embedding and reading auxiliary messages from image signals use embedded code signals modulated with the auxiliary message. These embedded ode signals may be used to convey hidden tracking codes in images, video and printed objects. The embedded...
US5715009 (A), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 CST 1998
- SONY CORP
A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when...
US4600274 (A), filed
Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 CST 1983
, published
Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 CDT 1986
- SEIKO EPSON CORP
A multi-color liquid crystal display includes liquid crystal micro-shutters which open and close color filters arranged as dots in a mosaic or stripe pattern. Fine and clear color image display and color graphic display are realized in the device wherein the...
US5949891 (A), filed
Wed Nov 16 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Sep 07 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- INTEL CORP
An audio processing system applies a filter to convert the audio signals generated by the microphone of a combined microphone/speaker earpiece into filtered audio signals, where the filter is designed to correct for distortions in the audio signals that result...
US6026195 (A), filed
Wed Apr 28 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 CST 2000
- GEN INSTRUMENT CORP
A motion estimation and compensation technique is provided for interlaced digital video such as video object planes (VOPs). Predictor motion vectors for use in differentially encoding a current field coded macroblock are obtained using the median of motion...
US4536863 (A), filed
Thu Apr 15 00:00:00 CST 1982
, published
Tue Aug 20 00:00:00 CDT 1985
- DISCOVISION ASS
A system for recovering information from a videodisc and performing special functions which enhance the operational character of the system. To increase the reliability of landing at or near a target track, provisions are made to search for a track adjacent a...
US6496135 (B1), filed
Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Dec 17 00:00:00 CST 2002
- UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC
A universal remote control comprising a keyboard having a plurality of pushbuttons including a macro pushbutton and a library of codes and data for use in transmitting operating commands to a plurality of different home appliances of different manufacturers....
US5014309 (A), filed
Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 CST 1988
, published
Tue May 07 00:00:00 CDT 1991
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
An off-premises cable television interdiction apparatus provides a microprocessor controller for controlling and switching one or more variable frequency voltage controlled oscillators. The variable frequency oscillators selectively jam only unauthorized...
US4366501 (A), filed
Wed Apr 18 00:00:00 CST 1979
, published
Tue Dec 28 00:00:00 CST 1982
- CANON KK
An image recording system in which an object image is caused to be formed on a solid state image transducer such as CCD each time a release is actuated, and the image signal stored on said image transducer is recorded as a video signal, thus a single frame...
US5317397 (A), filed
Fri May 29 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue May 31 00:00:00 CDT 1994
- TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO
A video coding apparatus comprises a memory for storing a coded picture signal used as a reference picture signal, a vector detecting circuit for detecting, from plural field picture signals or plural frame picture signals which are read out from the memory...
US6608651 (B2), filed
Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- CANON KK
An interchangeable lens camera system including a camera body and a lens detachably attached to the camera body. A camera-side control unit is disposed in the camera body and produces a control command. A lens-side control unit is disposed in the lens unit and...
US5079630 (A), filed
Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 CDT 1989
, published
Tue Jan 07 00:00:00 CST 1992
- INTEL CORP
A full motion color digital video signal is compressed, formatted for transmission, recorded on compact disc media and decoded at conventional video frame rates. During compression, regions of a frame are individually analyzed to select optimum fill coding...
US6226327 (B1), filed
Tue Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue May 01 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- SONY CORP
An encoder considers a frame representing a picture as comprised of areas. For each area, the encoder decides which of frame-based or field-based orthogonal transformation will be most efficient at reducing spatial redundancy in that area. For each area, the...
US5185667 (A), filed
Mon May 13 00:00:00 CDT 1991
, published
Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 CST 1993
- TELEROBOTICS INT INC
A device for omnidirectional image viewing providing pan-and-tilt orientation, rotation, and magnification within a hemispherical field-of-view that utilizes no moving parts. The imaging device is based on the effect that the image from a fisheye lens, which...
US6832385 (B2), filed
Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Dec 14 00:00:00 CST 2004
- UNITED VIDEO PROPERTIES INC
An electronic program guide displays televsion program listings in a time and channel guide format on a monitor screen. A cursor is provided for display on the monitor screen to selectively highlight one of the television program listings in the guide. Various...
US4660095 (A), filed
Fri May 04 00:00:00 CDT 1984
, published
Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 CDT 1987
- ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES INC
There is disclosed an apparatus and method for providing electrical signals representative of an image projected thereon. The apparatus includes an array of spaced apart, light sensitive elements formed from deposited semiconductor material and arranged for...
US5760830 (A), filed
Tue Jun 08 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 CDT 1998
- CANON KK
Disclosed is an image pick-up device which uses a charge transfer type solid state image pick-up device, and further is provided with a shutter so as to form a high quality picture signal in such a manner that the smear is prevented by prohibiting the...
US5506954 (A), filed
Wed Nov 24 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Apr 09 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- INTEL CORP
A video subsystem resides partially on a host processor and partially on a video board. Audio and communications subsystems reside partially on the host processor and partially on a audio/communications board. The video subsystem generates and passes local...
US5537157 (A), filed
Tue Aug 30 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Jul 16 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- WASHINO KINYA
An audio/video production system facilitates professional quality image manipulation and editing using an enhanced general-purpose hardware. A program input may be translated into any of a variety of graphics or television formats, including NTSC, PAL, SECAM...
US5841978 (A), filed
Thu Jul 27 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 CST 1998
- DIGIMARC CORP
A given data object can effectively contain both a graphical representation to a network user and embedded information, such as the URL address of another network node, thereby to permit the object itself to serve as an automated hot link. The underlying...
US6403985 (B1), filed
Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- KOPIN CORP
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and LED bars and LED arrays formed of semiconductive material, such as III-V, and particularly AlGaAs/CaAs material, are formed in very thin structures using organometallic vapor deposition (OMCVD). Semiconductor p-n junctions are...
