| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
|---|
| 348598000 | Specified details of signal combining | 38 |
| 20090115905 | High Definition Media Content Processing - High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090256968 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus, comprising: an input section; a storage section; first and second signal processing sections; and a control section. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100045869 | Entertainment Device, System, and Method - An entertainment device for combining virtual images with real images captured by a video camera so as to generate augmented reality images. The device comprises receiving means operable to receive a sequence of video images from the video camera via a communications link. The device further comprises detecting means operable to detect an augmented reality marker within the received video images, and processing means operable to generate a virtual image plane in dependence upon the detection of the augmented reality marker by the detecting means. The virtual image plane is arranged to be substantially coplanar with a real surface upon which the augmented reality marker is placed so that virtual images may be generated with respect to the real surface. The processing means is operable to generate the virtual image plane within the captured video images such that the virtual image plane is defined with respect to the detected augmented reality marker, and the virtual image plane has an area which is greater than an area which corresponds to the augmented reality marker. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100079676 | Providing Multi-User Views - Providing multiple interleaved views for multiple viewers who are using a single display. The display may be, for example, the display of a computing device such as a laptop computer. Alternatively, the display may be the display of a television, gaming device, a projection screen, and so forth. Shutter glasses are synchronized to a display that interleaves frames from multiple different streams, enabling the wearer to perceive the frames of a single one of the multiple streams. In one aspect, inverse frames are applied to public frames and the result is interleaved with positive frames, such that a viewer not wearing shutter glasses perceives only the public frames. In another aspect, frames from multiple private streams are interleaved without use of public frames. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100171881 | GENERATION OF A CUSTOMIZABLE TV MOSAIC - Method for generating at least one mosaic of content-transport streams, said method comprises the following steps after displaying a screen including at least a first area (Z | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100188581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING VIDEO PROGRAM MATERIAL - A method of distributing video program material includes encoding the program material in accordance with a first distribution constraint (CBR) to produce a first stream (A), encoding the program material in accordance with a second distribution constraint, which is more relaxed that the first distribution constraint, to produce a second stream (B), and employing the first and second streams to produce a third stream (C) representing differences between the first and second streams. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100214485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DATA CONTENT - A method of displaying input data content, the input data content comprising video data placed in a video plane and overlay data placed in an overlay plane, said method comprising the steps of:—shifting the video plane compared to the overlay plane so as the overlay plane does not occult the video plane,—mixing the resulting shifted video plane and overlay plane, for generating output data content, and—displaying said output data content. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100238351 | Scene recognition methods for virtual insertions - A method of adding a virtual insertion to an image, according to an embodiment, includes extracting dynamic features from an input image, associating the dynamic extracted features with dynamic reference features in a reference feature database, generating a camera model based on the associations, mixing a virtual insertion into the input image based on the camera model, and outputting an image containing both the input image and the virtual insertion. According to another embodiment, a method of adding a virtual insertion to an image includes generating a biased camera model using a statistically selected subset of a plurality of non-fixed regions of the image, locating fixed reference objects in the image, using the biased camera model as an entry point for a search, generating a corrected camera model using the fixed reference objects in the image, and adding a virtual insertion to the image using the corrected camera model. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238352 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE IMAGES/VIDEOS ON A SINGLE DISPLAY - A system and method for displaying multiple images on a single display. A plurality of unique video sources may be provided where each video source provides video frames having a plurality of vertical lines. A portion of the vertical lines are captured for each video source and transmitted to the display. The partial video frames may then be re-assembled into a single video frame which can be shown on the display. The display contains a masking where only certain vertical lines are viewable at certain angles. The masking may allow two or three images to be simultaneously visible to the observer, depending on the angle of viewing the display. Wireless or wired transmission may be used. Some embodiments also use a sound focusing device which may be synced with the video source so that separate sound messages can also be observed depending on the angle of viewing the display. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100259684 | CONTENT DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTENT DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD - There is performed processing for displaying content on a video image so that the content is superimposed on the video image without blocking an important portion of the video image. A content display processing device includes a video image acquisition section that acquires a video image made up of a plurality of still images; a content acquisition section that acquires content to be displayed on the video image in a superimposed manner; an image processing section that extracts the still image from the video image; an image recognition section that detects, from the still image extracted by the image processing section, an area which includes at least a portion of an outer edge of the still image and a portion except a main display object in the still image; a content layout section that determines content display information indicating a layout and a size of the content according to the area detected by the image recognition section; and a display processing section that performs processing so as to display the content while the content is superimposed on the video image, in accordance with the content display information determined by the content layout section. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100302446 | Video Superposition for Continuous Presence - Techniques are described herein for combining video frames of two or more real-time video streams into combined video frames of a combined real-time video stream for continuous presence. Video frames of at least two real-time video streams are combined into combined video frames of a combined video stream. The combined video stream is supplied to a video display for displaying the combined video stream. Each video stream includes video frames with subject and background images. The subject images of corresponding video frames of the first and second video streams are combined into a combined video frame of a combined video stream such that the subject image of the first video stream is positioned in an anterior portion of the combined frame and the subject image of the second video stream is positioned in a posterior portion of the combined frame. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110051004 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNALS - A video signal processing device includes: a first video signal processing section performing a first process on an input video signal for displaying a composite image that is a combination of a natural image and an artificial image, the first process being performed on pixels in a region larger than an artificial image combining region and being a process on which pixels within the combining region have influence; a second video signal processing section performing a second process on the input video signal, the second process being performed on pixels in a region larger than the combining region and being a process on which pixels within the combining region have no influence; and | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110085084 | ROBUST SPATIOTEMPORAL COMBINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO ENHANCEMENT - A system and method for a low complexity and robust spatiotemporal combining for video enhancement is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes computing a standard deviation estimate between a video frame and a temporally neighboring frame of the video frame in a video sequence, computing an error value, for each sub-block of pixels within a block of pixels in a current video frame, between pixel values within the sub-block in the current video frame and corresponding motion compensated pixel values in a temporally neighboring video frame of the current video frame, computing a temporal weighting factor for each sub-block of pixels as a function of the error value and the standard deviation estimate, and combining the block of pixels in the current video frame and their corresponding motion compensated pixel values in the temporally neighboring video frame using the computed temporal weighting factor. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110157474 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - An image display control apparatus is disclosed. The image display control apparatus stores first layers for original image data in first planes, combines the first layers into the original image data, records the original image data in an addition plane, and stores second layers for replacement image data in second planes. The second layers in the second planes and the original image data in the addition plane are respectively, synchronously and cyclically inputted to a compositing circuit so that the compositing circuit combines the second set of layers into the replacement image data. In the synchronous and cyclical input, the display of the display device is switched from the original image data to the replacement image data while a manner of combining the original image data and the replacement image data is being gradually changed between consecutive frames. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110170009 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing apparatus in which image quality degradation, such as burn-in, is prevented while reducing motion blurs by implementing pseudo-impulse driving. By combining high-frequency image data and low-frequency image data at the immediately preceding sub-frame at a first composite ratio α, image data is generated as first-sub-frame image data. By combining low-frequency image data and high-frequency image data at a second composite ratio 1−α, image data is generated as second-sub-frame image data. Then, the second-sub-frame image data is output with their polarity inverted with respect to the first-sub-frame image data. The ratio α is gradually decreased frame by frame at the first frame group, and the ratio α is gradually increased frame by frame at the second frame group subsequent to the first frame group. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110242419 | GENERATION OF MULTIPLE DISPLAY OUTPUT - A system includes determination of a first graphic overlay associated with a first video feed, and automatic determination a second graphic overlay to associate with a second video feed based on the determined first graphic overlay. Determination of the first graphic overlay may include detection of a first manipulation of a first user interface of a first application executing on a first computing system, and automatic determination of the second graphic overlay may include execution of a second manipulation of a second user interface of a second application executing on a second computing system. In further aspects, the second manipulation corresponds to the first manipulation. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120140118 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - A signal synthesis section synthesizes a first input image signal and a second input image signal such that frames of a first input effective signal and of a second input effective signal, overlap between the frames being long, are synthesized. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20130162912 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE VIDEO OUTPUTS BY EMPLOYING HARDWARE SHARING TECHNIQUE - A video processing apparatus includes a first video processing block, a second video processing block and a third video processing block. The first video processing block has a plurality of first video processing circuits disposed at a first video processing path, and is arranged for generating a first video output according to a first video input. The second video processing block has a plurality of second video processing circuits disposed at a second video processing path parallel with the first video processing path, and is arranged for generating an intermediate video output in response to a second video input, wherein an output signal of one of the first video processing circuits acts as the second video input fed into one of the second video processing circuits. The third video processing block is arranged for generating the second video output according to the intermediate video output. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130293783 | MOTION VECTOR BASED COMPARISON OF MOVING OBJECTS - The present invention proposes to analyze movements of objects in video sequences (e.g. sport videos), by performing motion estimation to determine motion vectors at each frame. With the calculated motion vectors, the movements of the object(s) (e.g. athlete(s)) can be quantitatively measured. Based on this, movements in two videos can be compared at each individual frame of the video sequence. Different approaches (e.g., color coding) can be used to visualize and compare the movements. With motion estimation, intermediate frames can also be inserted to enable better movement comparison in two given videos. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140253805 | EXTERNALLY POWERED RADIO FREQUENCY MODULATOR - An apparatus for enabling display of composite audio and video (AV) signals on a television set with a coaxial input connector is disclosed. The apparatus receives composite AV signals through a single tip AV connector and delivers AV signal on a coaxial output. The apparatus receives low voltage DC power from a USB connector. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140253806 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing apparatus includes a combining unit that combines encoded streams of a plurality of videos to generate an encoded stream of a multiple-video image composed of the videos, each encoded stream of each video having coding units in each horizontal line that are encoded as a slice, and an insertion unit that inserts an insertion stream into the encoded stream of the multiple-video image generated by the combining unit when a view area of the multiple-video image is moved. The insertion stream is an encoded stream in which all the coding units in the multiple-video image are replaced with skip macroblocks with a motion vector indicating a direction and an amount of movement of the view area. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140267917 | ULTRA LOW LATENCY VIDEO FUSION - Methods and systems for processing video are provided. A method includes receiving first and second video signals and generating a mask as a function of the second video signal, the mask having mask and peripheral areas. The method displays the first video signal in the peripheral area and processes the second video signal in the mask area. The method displays the processed second video signal in the mask area. A system includes a processor and a memory with stored instructions, that, when executed by the processor, cause to processor to receive first and second video signals and generate a mask as a function of the second video signal, wherein the mask has a mask area and a peripheral area. The system displays the first video signal in the peripheral area, processes the second video signal in the mask area, and displays the processed second video signal in the mask area. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140327830 | MULTIPLE-INPUT CONFIGURATION AND PLAYBACK VIDEO ENHANCEMENT - A system and method for delaying a first version of a video feed from a video camera according to a first delay to generate a second version of the feed, supplying the first version to an insertion system, wherein the insertion system inserts an indicia into the first version to create an enhanced version with a second delay substantially matching the first delay and supplying the enhanced version and the second version to a production switcher, wherein the enhanced version and the second version supplied to the production switcher are synchronized with one another. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140347560 | MOVING-IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MOVING-IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A moving-image processing device ( | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150103251 | MINIMAL DECODING METHOD FOR SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXING DIGITAL VIDEO PICTURES - Multiple video picture frames are combined into a spatial multiplex video picture frame that may be fully decoded and displayed. The video display of the spatial multiplex video picture frame is a composite combination of all of the video picture frames that have been combined, and may have an appearance such as a mosaic. Multiplexing the video picture frames involves removing picture headers, creating a picture header for the spatial multiplex video picture frame, and altering the headers of individual components of each video picture frame. The new header for the spatial multiplex video picture frame indicates a slice format frame, and headers of the individual components are altered to provide a slice format based picture position for each video picture frame. The headers of the individual components are altered to become slice based, such as in accordance with the ITU-T H.263 video standard, prior to establishing the slice based picture position if the frames are not already of the slice format. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150350561 | METHOD FOR EMBEDDING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN VIDEO USING RADIO FREQUENCEY INFORMATION - Embodiments are directed towards tracking physical objects' pixel locations in a stream of video frames. Radio frequency (RF) readers may be positioned relative to a scene. RF tags may be positioned in the scene at known pixel locations within the field of view of a video recording device. The RF tags may be enabled to generate RF signals to the RF readers. The RF readers may generate RF values based on the RF signals, which may be employed to determine a function to translate the RF values into known pixel locations within a video frame. An RF tag may be disposed at a physical location of at least one object within the scene. A stream of video frames and RF values may be recorded over time. The function may be employed to translate the recorded RF values into pixel locations for the least one object each recorded video frame. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350563 | Method and Apparatus for Targeting of Interactive Virtual Objects - A method and an apparatus are used to target interactive virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs. The virtual objects available for targeting are categorized and the categories are correlated to subscriber information to determine the optimum targeting of the virtual objects. The virtual objects may be targeted based on individual subscriber information or on information related to groups of subscribers. When a frame of a program includes a virtual object location, a default or an alternate virtual object is displayed. The virtual object location may change over space or time. The virtual object may be interactive, and may be used to link a subscriber to a remote location, such as an Internet web site. An operations center or a cable headend may generate a group assignment plan that assigns the subscribers' television terminals to groups, based on factors such as area of dominant influence and household income. A retrieval plan is then generated that instructs the television terminals to select the desired virtual object for display. The television terminals record which virtual objects were displayed, and report this information to the cable headends and the operations center. The reported information is used to generate billing for commercial advertisers, and to analyze viewer watching habits. Interactive virtual objects are received by the television terminal with directions on actions to be taken upon selection of the interactive virtual object. Actions may result in the initiation of processes locally at the television terminal, or communication with a remote site for the initiation of processes to be performed remotely. The invention uses upstream data reception hardware, databases and processing hardware and software, and corresponding features in the televisions to accomplish these functions. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160142643 | PARALLAX TOLERANT VIDEO STITCHING WITH SPATIAL-TEMPORAL LOCALIZED WARPING AND SEAM FINDING - An apparatus is configured to perform a method of parallax tolerant video stitching. The method includes determining a plurality of video sequences to be stitched together; performing a spatial-temporal localized warping computation process on the video sequences to determine a plurality of target warping maps; warping a plurality of frames among the video sequences into a plurality of target virtual frames using the target warping maps; performing a spatial-temporal content-based seam finding process on the target virtual frames to determine a plurality of target seam maps; and stitching the video sequences together using the target seam maps. | 05-19-2016 |
| 348599000 | Color signal | 5 |
| 20120176545 | High Definition Media Content Processing - High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20140132840 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE REAL-TIME SUPERPOSITION OF IMAGES ARISING FROM AT LEAST TWO VIDEO STREAMS - The device ( | 05-15-2014 |
| 20150009407 | IMAGE AND VIDEO IN MOSAIC FORMATS - A system includes: an image capture device configured to capture image data from a camera system, the image data being in a first mosaic layout; an image display device configured to display the image data in a second mosaic layout; and a processor configured to receive the image data in the first mosaic layout and to supply the image data in the second mosaic layout to the display without intermediate conversion to a fully collocated image layout. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150055018 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A detail improvement processing section ( | 02-26-2015 |
| 20160080716 | Graphics Blending for High Dynamic Range Video - A method and system for merging graphics and high dynamic range video data is disclosed. In a video receiver, if needed, video and graphics are translated first into the IPT-PQ color space. A display management process uses metadata to map the input video data and the graphics from their own color volume space into a target blending color volume space by taking into consideration the color volume space of the target display. | 03-17-2016 |
| 348600000 | Graphic or character insertion type | 5 |
| 20080239152 | Sub picture reproducing device, sub picture reproducing method, and sub picture reproducing program - According to one embodiment, a sub picture reproducing device comprises an input unit configured such that a sub picture stream provided with display control information including sub picture pixel data to be displayed and color codes to specify display colors of the pixel data, a setting unit configured to set propriety of displays of the sub video pixel data for each of the color codes by operations to the sub picture stream input to the input unit, and a processing unit configured to apply prescribed decode processing to the sub picture stream input to the input unit and to control display inhibition to sub picture pixel data corresponding to color codes to which display inhibition is set by the setting unit. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20120176546 | MULTIMEDIA DEVICE HAVING OPERATING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROCESSING MULTIPLE GRAPHIC DATA AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A multimedia device provided with an operating system (OS) capable of processing a plurality of graphic data comprises a first client receiving first graphic data of a managed application; a native module pre-processing an application drafted in a native code; a second client receiving second graphic data of the application pre-processed by the native module; a composite module compositing the first graphic data output from the first client and the second graphic data output from the second client; and a display module outputting the composited first and second graphic data, wherein the composite module is accessed to the first client and the second client. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130128120 | Graphics Pipeline Power Consumption Reduction - A graphics pipeline may be partially or completely shut down based, at least in part, on the presence of non-transparent objects in a graphics layer. Any regions of the graphics layer that include one or more non-transparent objects (e.g., semi-transparent, opaque, etc.) may be determined. A video layer and the determined regions of the graphics layer may be sampled. The sampled video layer and the sampled determined regions of the graphics layer may be composited for display. In some instances, it may be determined that the graphics layer includes no non-transparent objects. Upon that determination, the graphics pipeline may be fully shut down and the video layer may be sampled and composited, without sampling and/or compositing the graphics layer. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20140016037 | INTEGRATED MOBILE DESKTOP - Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to an integrated mobile desktop. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display chip to receive graphical data and produce video display signals; and a logic chip to receive data from a mobile device and the video display signals from the display chip to generate a display including at least a portion for a representation of a display of the mobile device. The logic chip provides for integration of operations for the apparatus and the mobile device using the generated display. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20150055019 | Detection of Graphics Added to a Video Signal - The invention allows detecting which graphics, if any, have been added to the video signal at any given time by utilizing only the various signals provided by prior art hardware. A first video signal, graphics signal(s), and a second video signal are received. It is then determined which graphics, if any, are present in a given frame of the received second video signal based on comparing actual values of pixels of the received second video signal and calculated values of pixels derived from the first video signal, and the graphics signal(s), and the combination of graphics signal(s) which produces the best match is searched for. | 02-26-2015 |
