Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
348589000 | Including insertion of characters or graphics (e.g., titles) | 17 |
20080259215 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CONTROL MULTPLE TYPES OF SCOREBOARDS - A system and method accurately maintaining times and scoring for a sports activity. | 10-23-2008 |
20090027557 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GEOMETRICAL PREDISTORTION OF OVERLAYING GRAPHICS SOURCES - A system and method of geometrical predistortion of a graphical source signal is provided in which the graphical source signal is merged with an input video signal for display on a display device. The input video signal is received at a hardware scaler device and a predistorted video signal is generated there from. A warping map is calculated using a programmed processor and a graphics source signal is then predistorted, in software, using the warping map to generate a warped graphical overlay signal. The predistorted video signal from the hardware scaler is then merged with the warped graphical overlay signal from the programmed processor. | 01-29-2009 |
20090051815 | Signal Processing Device and Optical Disc Apparatus - A video decoder | 02-26-2009 |
20090102975 | MESSAGE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, MESSAGE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a message image display device enabling a user to grasp a content of each massage image when a plurality of message images are displayed. A display control unit ( | 04-23-2009 |
20090128702 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus for superimposing an object on a moving image composed of a plurality of frames and outputting the moving image with the object superimposed to a monitor, comprises: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate regions as candidates for superimposing the object on each of the plurality of frames constituting the moving image; an analyzing unit configured to, in each of the plurality of candidate regions acquired by the acquiring unit, analyze each of the plurality of frames and acquire a parameter showing an importance of each of the plurality of frames in each of the plurality of candidate regions; a determining unit configured to determine a superimposing region for superimposing the object based on the parameters; and a superimposing unit configured to superimpose the object on the superimposing region determined by the determining unit. | 05-21-2009 |
20100079675 | VIDEO DISPLAYING APPARATUS, VIDEO DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND VIDEO DISPLAYING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a video displaying apparatus which composites information including at least one of a graphic and a text to a video and displays the composite video. The video displaying apparatus comprises a display processing unit configured to display a person area of a person included in the video and an area of the information including at least one of the graphic and the text so that the person area and the area of the information do not overlap. | 04-01-2010 |
20100194989 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING SMOOTH VIDEO TRANSITION BETWEEN DISTINCT APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications. Preferably, the apparatus implementing the present invention includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between two applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of the video and graphics components while transitioning from a first application to a second application. If there is no video component in either application, no action is needed to provide a smooth transition between applications, and when only the first application includes a video component, the video component need only be turned off for smooth transition between the applications to occur. When both the first application and the second application include video components, smooth transition between the applications according to the present invention is dependent upon the display window size of the first application in comparison to the second application. The apparatus and method of the present invention triggers a process according to the size of the display windows of the first and second applications. | 08-05-2010 |
20100289960 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING THE CONTENT OF A TELEVISION IMAGE - The method for modifying the content of a target area in a television image comprises generating an original image signal (PGM | 11-18-2010 |
20110063512 | SYNTHESIS DEVICE AND SYNTHESIS METHOD - In synthesizing live-action video and CG, when live-action video is shot by a moving camera, generation of CG that moves in accordance with the move of the live-action video without causing visual discomfort required a difficult operation such as programming in advance to precisely adjust the display timing and the display position of the CG. The present invention is to generate CG in accordance with live-action video shot by a moving camera with minimum visual discomfort, thereby creating a highly realistic synthesized video image. | 03-17-2011 |
20120188459 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXING GRAPHICS WITH VIDEO IMAGES - In one embodiment, graphics from a general-purpose computer are mixed with video images from a video source. A first interface receives the graphics, the graphics including a plurality of graphics frames, at least some graphics frames including one or more regions having pixels set to one or more predetermined color values. A second interface receives video images from the video source, each video image corresponding to one of the plurality of graphics frames. A video mixer includes logic configured to recognize pixels in the at least some graphics frames that are set to the one or more predetermined color values, and in the one or more regions where the pixels are set to the one or more predetermined color values to mix pixels from the corresponding video image with the graphics frame, to create a plurality of mixed images. One or more output interfaces outputs the mixed images. | 07-26-2012 |
20130188095 | System for Scanable Icon Detection and Management - This invention enables Scanable Icons, which may be predetermined graphical images, and similar encoded information to be applied to video systems in a manner that is user-friendly and brings many of the advantages of easy information access and management to the video environment. The optical path normally required when using such encoded information is avoided. Supplementary information, including more details for advertisements, is provided in a non-invasive manner, allowing the user to access the supplementary information at convenient times and locations. The Scanable Icon adds a symbol to the existing advertisement without increasing its duration. Advertising is made substantially more effective for the advertiser and more useful for the consumer. | 07-25-2013 |
20140104496 | Method and System for Visualization of Athletes - A system and method for receiving positional data corresponding to stages of movement of a person within a time interval, determining from the positional data, at each stage of movement, one of: a position, an orientation, and a pose of the person, and based on the one of the position, the orientation, and the pose of the person determined for each stage of movement, generating a visualization graphic, separate from a display of the person, that illustrates one of the positions, orientations, and poses of the person at the stages of movement within the time interval. | 04-17-2014 |
20140192265 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING SMOOTH VIDEO TRANSITION BETWEEN DISTINCT APPLICATIONS - A method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of the video and graphics components while transitioning from a first application to a second application. If there is no video component in either application, no action is needed to provide a smooth transition between applications, and when only the first application includes a video component, the video component need only be turned off for smooth transition between the applications to occur. When both the first application and the second application include video components, smooth transition between the applications is dependent upon the display window size of the first application in comparison to the second application. A process is triggered according to the size of the display windows of the first and second applications. | 07-10-2014 |
20140375887 | METHOD FOR COMBINING DATA SIGNALS AND VIDEO SIGNALS FOR TRANSMISSION TO VIDEO DISPLAY UNITS - A method capable of combining data signals and video signals for transmission to a video display unit. The method comprises the steps of generating a data signal, transmitting the data signal to an apparatus, receiving the data signal at the apparatus, receiving a video/audio signal at the apparatus, combining the video/audio signal with the data signal to form a single combined signal, and displaying the combined signal on a video display unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150070587 | Generating Alerts Based Upon Detector Outputs - Systems and methods for generating alerts and enhanced viewing experience features using on-screen data are disclosed. Textual data corresponding to on-screen text is determined from the visual content of video data. The textual data is associated with corresponding regions and frames of the video data in which the corresponding on-screen text was detected. Users can select regions in the frames of the visual content to monitor for a particular triggering item (e.g., a triggering word, name, or phrase). During play back of the video data, the textual data associated with the selected regions in the frames can be monitored for the triggering item. When the triggering item is detected in the textual data, an alert can be generated. Alternatively, the textual data for the selected region can be extracted to compile supplemental information that can be rendered over the playback of the video data or over other video data. | 03-12-2015 |
20150326819 | REMOTE, DIRECTED DELIVERY OF DATA FOR ON-AIR GRAPHICS - Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation, the operation comprising defining, in a message, attributes of a graphics object to overlay on a video as part of a media broadcast, wherein the attributes comprise an identifier of a template for the graphics object and a time in the video to overlay the graphics object, and publishing the message to one or more recipients. | 11-12-2015 |
20160165171 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSERTING A GRAPHICAL OVERLAY IN A VIDEO STREAM - The present invention relates generally to video communication systems, and more specifically to a method and device for determining a degree of animation of a graphical overlay for a video stream based on a degree of movement in the video stream. | 06-09-2016 |