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| 20080231751 | SCHEME FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATIONS AND TIMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS AND OTHER INSERTIONS IN MEDIA - A method for use with content includes analyzing a sequence of frames of the content, determining whether an area exists in a scene depicted by the sequence of frames where additional content such as advertising can be inserted without obstructing activity in the scene, for any such area, determining an amount of time that the area is available when the sequence of frames is being played, and for any such area, determining a size of the area. A storage medium storing a computer program for causing a processor based system to execute these steps and an apparatus for use with content are also disclosed. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090180025 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVERLAYING GRAPHICS ON VIDEO - Information received on a side channel from a TV content source is placed in a graphics plane of a TV and overlaid onto a video plane of the TV, which contains content from a main channel. The graphics plane content in each side channel may be keyed to content ratings setting so that the TV selects the side channel appropriate for a user-input rating setting of the TV and overlays the content of the side channel onto the video plane, to thereby conform the composite image that is displayed on the TV to the viewer-input ratings setting. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090273715 | Method And Apparatus For Displaying An Image With A Production Switcher - A video production switcher comprises a number of mix effects (M/E) units and a controller. The latter comprises a control layer that controls the M/Es to provide video outputs through projection devices that give the appearance of displaying one unified pixel space canvas. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100073568 | Field Sequential Color Encoding For Displays - The optical performance is enhanced of display systems that use field sequential color and pulse width modulation to generate color and color gray scale values. Such enhancement may be achieved by various data encoding methods disclosed herein that may include temporal redistribution of bit values to mitigate color motional artifacts associated with field sequential color-based display systems, selective combination of intensity modulation, pulse width modulation, and/or the noncontiguous sequencing of primary colors. There is further an intelligent real-time dynamic manipulation of gray scale values in portions of an image that are computationally determined to be images of objects moving against a global background, so as to temporally front load or concentrate the bits comprising such moving objects and thereby further mitigate said motional artifacts using both actual and virtual aggregate pulse truncation across all primary colors being modulated. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100091193 | AMBILIGHT DISPLAYING ARRANGEMENT - Disclosed are embodiments of AmbiLight TV, a lighting or illumination system that has been introduced to enhance viewing experience. The system comprises one or two U-shaped light guides, the legs of which spatially correspond to three or four sides of the display screen. In one embodiment, the light sources illuminate a background surface behind the TV such as a wall. In another embodiment, the light sources are arranged around the display screen in substantially the same planar area, and radiate light to the front. In yet another embodiment, the light sources are arranged to directly or/and indirectly illuminate the dark area between the pixel area of the display screen and the front of the lighting or illumination system. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100097526 | BANANA CODEC - A method and system for stitching two or more images to generate a resultant image of good quality is disclosed. The disclosed method and system represents a way to stitch two or more images captured through fisheye lenses. The method and system converts two fisheye hemispherical images to two triangles, which are thereafter stitched together to form a rectangular image. Herein each single pixel in the hemispherical images at the beginning represents one single pixel in the resultant rectangular figure at the end of the process. Thus, the resultant stitched image comprises of the same concentration of pixels at the end as was in the initial images to be stitched and occupies lesser storage space than equirectangular images or videos. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100118199 | Video/Audio Processor and Video/Audio Processing Method - A video/audio processor includes: a position calculation unit configured to calculate from a video signal a position of a speaking person in a screen; and an adjustment section configured to adjust a signal level of a specific frequency of an audio signal inputted to a plurality of speakers in correspondence with the position of the speaking person calculated in the position calculation unit, for each of the plurality of speakers independently. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118200 | Signage - According to some embodiments, a digital signage system plays content. According to some embodiments, content may vary based on various circumstances. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100134687 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SIGNALS AT A BOWLING ALLEY OR THE LIKE - In a process and apparatus for managing signals to be broadcast at a bowling alley or the like a video signal comprising an image captured at the bowling alley is displayed at the bowling lane. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100141843 | PROMOTIONAL LABELLING OF A TELEVISION APPARATUS - For the purpose of promotional labelling, a television apparatus modifies the video signal supplied to the display device to superimpose promotional graphics that indicate technical information about the television apparatus onto the video image that is displayed. This avoids the need for adhesive labels, thereby reducing cost and avoiding damage caused removal of adhesive labels. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100182508 | AUXILIARY BUS TRANSITIONS ON A VIDEO SWITCHER - A mix-effects bank architecture of a video switcher having a plurality of video processing units; and an internal switcher routing matrix. The internal switcher routing matrix routing, a video source currently providing a video feed to an auxiliary output and a desired new source for the auxiliary output to a video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing and routing an output of said video processing unit to said auxiliary output. The video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing performs a transitional effect for the auxiliary output. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100194988 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Highlight Detection - A method and apparatus for highlight detection. The method includes retrieving audio and video data, detecting a high audio energy scene of the retrieved audio data, detecting a key-line scene relevant to the high audio scene of the retrieved video data, detecting an in-play scene according to the key-line, and optimizing start and end point of the highlight scene. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100214483 | Displaying An Image With An Available Effect Applied - A method for automatically displaying an image with an available effect applied on a digital display device includes analyzing the image stored on a storage device and choosing the available effect to apply to the image, where analyzing the image includes executing an image analysis on the image to identify at least one characteristic of the image, where the available effect to apply to the image to be displayed is automatically chosen from a list of available effects which may be applied to the image in consideration of the at least one characteristic of the image, and rendering the image with the available effect applied on the digital display device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100328535 | VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Brightness expression without solid white pattern is enabled, and video expression with an improved black level is achieved. A distortion module ( | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110007219 | Object-Based Audio-Visual Terminal And Bitstream Structure - As information to be processed at an object-based video or audio-visual (AV) terminal, an object-oriented bitstream includes objects, composition information, and scene demarcation information. Such bitstream structure allows on-line editing, e.g. cut and paste, insertion/deletion, grouping, and special effects. In the interest of ease of editing, AV objects and their composition information are transmitted or accessed on separate logical channels (LCs). Objects which have a lifetime in the decoder beyond their initial presentation time are cached for reuse until a selected expiration time. The system includes a de-multiplexer, a controller which controls the operation of the AV terminal, input buffers, AV objects decoders, buffers for decoded data, a composer, a display, and an object cache. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110043701 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A video processing apparatus determines whether a video signal of a predetermined resolution is a pseudo-resolution video signal generated from a video signal of resolution lower than the predetermined resolution. The video processing apparatus generates a first frequency histogram relating to a video signal of a first resolution among a plurality of video signals which are identical in contents and different from one another in resolution and a second frequency histogram relating to a video signal of a second resolution which is lower than the first resolution, compares the first frequency histogram with the second frequency histogram, compares a similarity between the first frequency histogram and the second frequency histogram with a predetermined threshold value, and determines, if the similarity is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold value, that the video signal of the first resolution is a pseudo-resolution video signal. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110211121 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus including a speaker and a control method thereof which controls the speaker to output a sound wave adjusted according to an installation condition of the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a signal processor which processes an image signal and an audio signal; a display unit which displays an image corresponding to the image signal processed by the signal processor; a speaker which outputs a sound wave corresponding to the audio signal processed by the signal processor; and a controller which controls the signal processor to adjust the sound wave corresponding to the audio signal to an adjustment value according to an installation condition of the display apparatus. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120086861 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - A basic pattern generating unit | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120120319 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL CORRECTOR AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL CORRECTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises (i) an image extraction module configured to extract representative images from a plurality of frames which constitute video content data, and to output time stamp information indicative of time points at which the extracted representative images appear, and (ii) an image list display process module configured to display a list of the extracted representative images on a two-dimensional display area. The area includes image display areas which are divided by columns, a plurality of time zones, and the image list display process module is configured to display, based on the time stamp information corresponding to each of the extracted representative images, the representative images, which belong to the time zone allocated to each column. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130016286 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAMAANM Nomura; ToshiyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nomura; Toshiyuki Tokyo JPAANM Senda; YuzoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Senda; Yuzo Tokyo JPAANM Higa; KyotaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Higa; Kyota Tokyo JP - Disclosed is an information display system provided with: a signal analyzing unit which analyzes the audio signals obtained from a predetermined location and which generates ambient sound information regarding the sound generated at the predetermined location; an ambient expression selection unit which selects an ambient expression which expresses the content of what a person is feeling from the sound generated at the predetermined location on the basis of the ambient sound information; and an ambient expression and video superimposing unit which superimposes the ambient expression on the video of a video signal obtained from the predetermined location. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130235272 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus of one embodiment executes a super-resolution processing which generate a high resolution image of a frame from low resolution images of a plurality of frames by performing alignment of pixels on a reference frame on a standard frame which is made to have high resolution and executing reconfiguration of an image based on a result of the aligning. The image processing apparatus includes a plurality of arithmetic processing units which can operate in parallel. When executing alignment between the standard frame and the reference frame, the plurality of arithmetic processing units operate in parallel a first alignment processing and a second alignment processing which are in the reverse relation to each other in terms of the relation of the standard and the reference, and the first alignment processing and the second alignment processing share their processing results mutually. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130258198 | VIDEO SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video search method includes: displaying an input interface; building a model image as the key image according to at least one input parameters if at least one parameter is input through the input interface; extracting information as to features of the key image; comparing the features of the key image with features in each frame of each stored video file to determine whether the features shown in one or more frames of each stored video file match with the features of the key images; determining that a video file is a target video file if at least one frame of the video file matches with the features of the key image; and presenting the target video files or other processing. A computing device and a storage medium for searching video files are also described. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140022459 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TUNING AN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM TO VIEWER ATTENTION LEVEL - An audiovisual signal processing device including a signal processing unit configured to receive a video signal comprising a plurality of images; identify at least first and second video components of the video signal, the first video component relating to motion of the first video component between at least a first portion of the plurality of images and the second video component relating to a substantial lack of motion of the second video component between at least a second portion of the plurality of images; select at least one image from the second portion of the plurality of images including the second video component; and insert the first video component into a plurality of the selected at least one image to create a temporally repeating sequence of the at least one image including the first video component. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140036153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AVOIDING DISCOMFORT AND/OR RELIEVING MOTION SICKNESS WHEN USING A DISPLAY DEVICE IN A MOVING ENVIRONMENT - In one embodiment, a method for avoiding discomfort and/or relieving motion sickness when using a display device in a moving environment includes detecting at least one movement component of the moving environment, generating data for intermediate images indicating the movement component or at least one of the movement components, and modifying a series of images showing content to be displayed by inserting the intermediate images into the series. The modified series is divided into sequences of these images by the intermediate images. The method further includes displaying the modified series of images on an image display of the display device. The modified series includes the intermediate images. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140043536 | ONE PASS VIDEO PROCESSING AND COMPOSITION FOR HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO - A video composition model that provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to set device contexts, and determine capabilities of graphics hardware from a device driver. After the model determines a configuration, the model determines input video stream states applicable to frame rates, color-spaces and alpha indexing of input video streams, interactive graphics, and background images. The model prepares the input video frames and reference frames, as well as a frame format and input/output frame index information. The input video streams, interactive graphics and background images are processed individually and mixed to generate an output video stream. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140092308 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus for displaying a live view image obtained by implementing special effect processing on an image data on a monitor comprises an image processing unit that implements a plurality of types of special effect processing on the image data to generate a plurality of sets of special effect image data corresponding respectively to the plurality of types of special effect processing, and a control unit that displays the plurality of sets of special effect image data on the monitor while switching the plurality of sets of special effect image data automatically in time series. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140320745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - A method and a display apparatus for generating and outputting an image generated to apply a special effect to a video are provided. The method includes outputting a video to a first area of a screen of the display apparatus, generating an image based on information comprised in the video, and outputting the generated image to a second area, surrounding the first area. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150304573 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, a method and a program that are configured so as to be capable of obtaining a higher quality of looped moving image. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150373280 | ALGORITHM FOR PRE-PROCESSING OF VIDEO EFFECTS - A system and method of processing a video decode contents of a video container into a sequence of frames, and apply a video effect to each frame in the sequence of frames to produce corresponding modified frames. A sequence of differential frames is determined based on a comparison of the sequence of frames and the corresponding modified frames. A prediction operation is performed to the sequence of differential frames to produce a sequence of inter frames. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160021317 | Method of Video Enhancement - A system and method for enhancing a stream of video images in real-time. A primary stream of video images of a real event is obtained using broadcast video cameras. That primary stream also contains images of a display-object that change in appearance during the broadcast. At the same time, a stream of images of an agent-object is obtained. This may, for instance, be an animated computer-generated figure and may be stored on a local computer hard drive. The animated figure is choreographed and synchronized to be in time with the change of appearance of the display-object. By combining the primary and secondary image streams using match-moving technology, a composite stream is formed in which the agent-object appears to be causally linked to the display-object. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160063669 | Dynamic Motion Path Blur User Interface - Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160063670 | Dynamic Motion Path Blur Kernel - Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160182771 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SENSORY EFFECT METADATA | 06-23-2016 |
