| SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED Patent applications |
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| 20120081606 | VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION - A method of synchronizing the phase of a local image synchronization signal generator of a local video data processor in communication with an asynchronous switched packet network to the phase of a reference image synchronization signal generator of a reference video data processor also coupled to the network, the local and reference processors having respective clocks, the reference and local image synchronization signal generators generating periodic image synchronization signals in synchronism with the reference and local clocks respectively including: frequency synchronizing the local and reference clocks; sending an image timing packet providing reference image synchronization data indicating the difference in timing, measured with respect to the reference processor's clock, between the time at which the image timing packet is launched onto the network and the time of production of a reference image synchronization signal; and controlling the timing of the production of the local image synchronization signal. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20110296350 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DATA ORGANISATION - A method of organising data items in an n-dimensional space comprises, for each of a plurality of iterations, the step of generating a relative displacement of position for each data item within the n-dimensional space in accordance with a similarity value between each data item and respective other data items, the distance between each data item and respective other data items in the n-dimensional space, and the difference in position within the n-dimensional space between each data item and at least one reference point. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110007821 | TRANSPORT STREAM MODULE - A module is connected to a digital television decoder apparatus by a transport stream interface over which the module supplies a transport stream received in the module over the transport stream interface or over a separate interface. The module has a packet multiplexer arranged to multiplex packets containing application data generated in the module into the received transport stream. This allows the module to implement a man-machine interface. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100318467 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE CONTENT - A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100260475 | TELEVISION SIGNAL RECORDING - A television signal recording apparatus comprises a recording unit that makes recordings of television signals and stores metadata representing information in respect of the recordings including the channel and the recording time. A graphical display of made recordings and scheduled recordings is produced in which graphical objects representing respective recordings are arranged in two dimensions, ordered in a first dimension on the basis of the channels and ordered in a second dimension on the basis of the recording times. In the second dimension, the graphical objects are arranged along a time axis which includes discontinuities at times when no recording is present, the discontinuities being graphically represented by graphical symbols that are different according to the period of the discontinuity. An electronic program guide is produced with a similar format, the programs being filtered to select programs and discontinuities being present at times where there is no selected program. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100251318 | METHOD OF PROVIDING TELEVISION PROGRAM INFORMATION - A method of providing information, comprising: capturing, at a first receiver receiving a television broadcast signal, a live image of a television channel of the television broadcast signal; transmitting the captured live image from the first receiver to a server, the server being remotely located from the first receiver; transmitting the captured live image from the server to a second receiver; and displaying the captured live image together with information associated with the television channel at the second receiver. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245678 | TELEVISION APPARATUS - A television apparatus including a register for storing a plurality of events, each event indicating both a time and an operation to be conducted by the television apparatus at that time, a power supply operable to power the television apparatus selectively in a powered-up state or a standby state and a controller arranged so as, in response to a clock reaching a time stored for one of said events, to control the power supply to switch from the standby state to the powered-up state and to cause the respective operation to be conducted by the television apparatus. The television apparatus is arranged to store information indicating, for at least the stored event having the latest time, whether to switch to the standby state or a shutdown state, the power supply being shut down in the shutdown state. The controller is arranged so as, in response to completion of the respective operation of the stored event having the latest time, to control the power supply to switch from the powered-up state to, according to said information, either the standby state or the shutdown state. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100226425 | ENCODING AND DETECTING APPARATUS - An encoding data processor generates a video material item marked copy by representing a payload data word as a code word and embedding the code word into a copy of the video material item. A preprocessor divides the payload word into plural parts, forms plural initial values from the plural parts, each initial value formed by adding parts of the payload data word to each initial value successively starting with the first part added to the first initial value, and adds the first and second to the second initial value so each subsequent initial value includes all parts of the payload data word of the previous initial values and a new part of the payload data word. An encryption processor receives each initial value and generates an encrypted data stream using a payload encryption key. A combiner combines the encrypted payload data word with the video material item. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100186048 | TELEVISION RECEIVER DEVICE - A television receiver device including first and second tuners for receiving first and second multiplexes of channels, each multiplex including at least one channel carrying a succession of programs, actual event information providing information relating to channels in the respective multiplex and other event information providing information relating to channels of other multiplexes. A programme is scheduled to be broadcast at the same time in different first and second formats respectively in the first and second multiplexes. The device further includes a user interface configured to allow selection of a channel of said first multiplex; a controller configured to tune said first tuner to said first multiplex and to select said channel of said first multiplex; wherein the controller is configured to be responsive to the channel selected by the user interface carrying said programme to tune said second tuner to said second multiplex. The device further includes an event unit configured to acquire from said second multiplex actual event information for said program. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100182502 | TELEVISION APPARATUS - A television apparatus ( | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100162311 | DATA BROADCAST METHOD - A system for providing a plurality of sets of broadcast data service transmitted as part of a broadcast signal, including a processor configured to periodically extract at least some of the plurality of sets of the broadcast data service from a broadcast carousel included in the broadcast signal, a memory configured to store the extracted plurality of sets of the broadcast data service, defining a plurality of digital-audio/video-data-sets including television clips, a first controller configured to allow selection from a list of the plurality of sets of the digital-audio/video-data-sets, and a second controller responsive to a user initiated selection signal to cause the memory to output a user selected one of the plurality of digital-audio/video-data-sets selected from the list, wherein the processor converts the digital-audio/video-data of the plurality of sets of the broadcast data service into real time audio/video data, and updates portions of data related to the stored extracted plurality of sets. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158362 | IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing method includes detecting statistical distribution of permutations of pixel properties amongst contiguous groups of a predetermined number of pixels in at least a portion of an image under test, so as to derive feature data in respect of the image under test, and comparing the feature data derived in respect of the image under test with feature data derived from at least respective portions of one or more other images so as to detect a similarity between the image under test and the one or more other images. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100153987 | DATA BROADCAST METHOD - A system for providing requested data sets of broadcast data service transmitted as part of a broadcast signal, including a broadcast headend configured to receive a data request from a receiver, and configured to broadcast requested data sets to the receiver in response to the data request from the receiver, a processor configured to periodically extract all of the requested data sets of the broadcast data service from a broadcast carousel included in the broadcast signal, a memory configured to store all of the requested data sets of the broadcast data service, defining a plurality of digital-audio/video-data-sets including television clips, a first controller configured to allow selection from a list of the plurality of sets of the digital-audio/video-data-sets, and a second controller responsive to a user initiated selection signal to cause the memory to output a user selected one of the plurality of digital-audio/video-data sets selected from the list, wherein the processor converts the digital-audio/video-data of the requested data sets of the broadcast data service into real time audio/video data. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100115015 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of data processing. The method comprises applying a filter to an input sample set comprising sample values selected from an input sequence of input sample values, so as to generate a corresponding output sample value having an output sample value position with respect to the input sample set, in which the filter has a maximum output range. The method further comprises deriving a permissible output value range from an input group of two or more input sample values in the input sample set which surround the output sample value position, detecting whether the output of the filter is outside the permissible output value range and, if so, limiting the output of the filter to lie within the permissible output value range. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100067868 | RECORDING INTERACTIVE SERVICES - A digital television recorder to record television programs, having a recording section to record data onto a storage medium, a filter to identify from a received transport stream, data of a television program for recording, a timer to be set with a time and, at that time, to start the recording onto the storage medium, data of the television program received from the filter, and a cache to store data of the interactive services associated with the television programs and provided in the respective transport streams. The filter identifies data of interactive services associated with the television programs, the timer starts, at a predetermined interval before the time, acquisition of the data of interactive services and storing acquired data of interactive services in the cache, and the recording section records, immediately prior to starting recording the data of the television program, the content of the cache to the storage medium. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100046554 | COMBINING MATERIAL AND DATA - A method of generating a file at a header metadata creator apparatus, the method including: generating, at the header metadata creator apparatus, a file, the file including: a file header, a file body, and a file footer, wherein the file header includes at least KLV encoded header metadata, the KLV encoded header metadata including at least a universal label, length data and variable length data, the variable length data including a plurality of KLV encoded metadata sets, each one of the KLV encoded metadata sets includes a predetermined universal label, essence length data and a plurality of KLV encoded metadata items, and each KLV encoded metadata item includes at least an item universal label, variable item length data and item value data. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100045862 | ALIAS AVOIDANCE IN IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus generating output pixel values with respect to pixels of an input image selected in accordance with an image feature direction in the input image and including a comparing mechanism comparing blocks of pixels of the input image, the blocks disposed with respect to a pixel position under test so that a correlation between the blocks would indicate an image feature direction applicable to that pixel position; and a validating mechanism detecting whether an image feature direction may be used to interpolate an output pixel value at the pixel position under test. The validating mechanism: (i) detects whether a detected image feature direction for the pixel position under test meets one or more predetermined directional criteria; and (ii) detects whether pixel values in image regions disposed with respect to the pixel position under test in accordance with possible image feature directions meet one or more predetermined pixel value criteria. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100034509 | MANAGEMENT OF TELEVISION RECORDINGS - In a television recording apparatus having a storage unit capable of storing recordings of television signals, during reproduction of a recording, an analysis of the reproduced television signal is performed to detect a credits sequence of a program. Responsive to input of a command to cease reproduction before the end of a recording, in the event that the command is input after the detected credits sequence, then the recording is deleted or there is displayed a graphical interface providing for user input to indicate a desire for deletion of the recording or not. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100023516 | INFORMATION HANDLING - An information handling apparatus in which textual metadata is generated in respect of a current information item in an ensemble of information items including: a mechanism that detects one or more predetermined properties of the current information item; a mechanism that detects a subset of information items from the ensemble of information items the subset being those which have the one or more predetermined properties most similar to those of the current information item; and a mechanism that selects one or more most frequently occurring words and/or phrases within textual metadata associated with the subset of information items, for use in textual metadata to be associated with the current information item. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100017614 | ENCODING AND DETECTING APPARATUS - An encoding data processing apparatus generates a video material item marked copy by embedding a payload data word into the video material item. The video material item includes plural video frames. A code word generator generates a water mark code word from the payload data word and reads data representing the water mark code word into a shuffle data store. A shuffle processor generates pseudo randomly at least one address within an address space of the shuffle data store for each video frame and reads data representing part or parts of the water mark code word out from the data store at locations identified by the pseudo randomly generated address. A data embedding processor receives the video material item and embeds the data representing the part or parts of the water mark code word read out from the shuffle data store for each frame into a corresponding frame of the video material item. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100002135 | TELEVISION DEVICE - A television device and a method of controlling the television device with a user interface. The television device has an output circuit for outputting audio and video signals and is operable in a normal mode outputting an audio signal and a video signal and in an audio descriptor mode outputting an audio signal additionally including an audio description of images contained in the video signal. The user interface has a plurality of actuable regions/buttons with respective user interface surfaces, the regions/buttons including at least one tactile region/button having a tactile identifier on its respective user interface surface. The television device is controlled to switch between the normal mode and the audio descriptor mode in response to the at least one tactile region/button being actuated in a predetermined way, such as for at least a predetermined time. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090310861 | IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing method includes partitioning an image under test to form a plurality of contiguous image segments having similar image properties, deriving feature data from a subset including one or more of the image segments, and comparing the feature data from the subset of image segments with feature data derived from respective image segments of one or more other images so as to detect a similarity between the image under test and the one or more other images. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090290750 | BLOCK-BASED WATERMARKING - A water marking system generates a water marked image frame for conveying a payload data word by combining at least one image frame with a two-dimensional water mark pattern. The water mark pattern includes plural regions each associated with one of symbols of the payload data word. Each region includes a two dimensional water mark block selected from a predetermined set of possible water mark blocks to represent the value of the payload data symbol associated with that region. A detecting data processing apparatus detects the payload data from a received water marked image frame, which has been encoded by utilizing a block match prior probability calculator operable to correlate each region of the water marked image frame with each of the water mark blocks from the set of water marked blocks) to form for each region a set of probability surfaces. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090284468 | REMOTE CONTROL HANDSET - A remote control handset | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090257618 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A data processing apparatus registers an image encoded with a two-dimensional water mark pattern. The water mark includes for each image frame a water mark frame pattern of water mark blocks. The water mark pattern includes plural regions each including one water mark block selected from a predetermined set of possible water mark blocks based on a key sequence. The key sequence provides a predetermined sequence of selected water mark blocks to form the water mark pattern of each frame to provide a predetermined sequence of water marked frames. The data processing apparatus includes a block match processor generating block match probabilities including for each region of a current frame of the water marked image a probability surface of possible distortion vectors for each possible water mark block of the set of possible water marked blocks that may have been added to that region of the image frame. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090185683 | ENCODING AND DETECTING APPARATUS - An encoding data processor generates a video material item marked copy by representing a payload data word as a code word embedded into a copy of the video material item. A preprocessor forms plural initial values having the same predetermined length, by representing one or more parts of the payload data word in one or more of the initial values, each including a field index, and setting remaining parts of the initial value to a predetermined value. An encryption processor receives each initial value and generates an encrypted data stream therefrom using a payload encryption key to provide plural encrypted data streams. The parts of the encrypted data streams are combined with frames of the material item. Plural initial values include the same part of the payload data, and a field index value for the initial value including the same payload data is changed with respect to other initial values. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090103889 | MEDIA GENERATION SYSTEM - A system generates automatically a highlight summary of a performance, from signals representing a captured version of the performance. The system includes a user operated event logging processor and an ingestion processor. The user operated event logging processor is operable to log event codes, each of which is selected by the user from a set of event codes. Each of the event codes in the set of event codes represents a predetermined event which may occur in the performance, the event codes being selected by the user when an event corresponding to the event code occurs during an observed performance. The ingestion processor is operable to receive the event codes and to receive signals produced by capturing a representation of the performance. The ingestion processor compares the event codes with an editing action list, the editing action list specifying for each of the set of event codes at least an amount of the performance which should be included in an automatically generated highlight summary of the performance, and generates automatically the highlight summary of the performance by comparing the event codes with the editing action list, and including the amount of the signals representative of the performance in the highlighted summary in accordance with the amount specified by the editing action list for the event code. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090028528 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS - A camera configured to generate audio/video signals, the camera including a recording unit configured to record the audio/video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor configured to generate automatically meta data identifying the content of the audio/video signals in response to the audio/video signals, a wireless communications processor configured to communicate the meta data separately from the recording medium, and a communications interface configured to communicate the automatically generated meta data to a personal data processing apparatus and to receive user generated meta data from the personal data processing apparatus. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090022363 | WATERMARKING AND TRANSFERRING MATERIAL - A client device for use in a system having a server, the client device including: a receiving device configured to receive information material from the server, the information material containing a reversible modification providing a perceptible disturbing effect to the information material, and to receive identifying information that distinguishes the information material from other information material available from the server and condition information which defines a predetermined condition that should be met in order for the reversible modification to be reversed; a transmission device which, in response to a user input providing enabling data which satisfies the predetermined condition, configured to transmit the identifying information and the enabling data to the server, wherein in response to the transmission of the enabling data and the identifying information, the receiving device is configured to receive a key and removing data defining an algorithm for removing the perceptible effect, the removing data being useable by a reversing device to reverse the perceptible effect; and a storage device configured to store the information material that has had the perceptible effect reversed. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090002553 | Video Processing - A video processing apparatus generates an output frame from two or more input images by deriving pixels to interleave between lines of pixels of a base field. The pixels are derived from one of: a first pixel generator generating a pixel value from one or more fields other than the base field, dependent on a respective motion vector having a sub-pixel resolution; or a second pixel generator generating a pixel value from other pixels of the base field. A spatial phase-correcting filter receives an input group of derived pixels including a current derived pixel, and generates an output phase-corrected current pixel value. A pre-compensation mechanism, operable if a pixel forming part of the derived pixels group has been generated by the second pixel generator, applies spatial phase alteration to approximate the phase of that pixel to the phase of the current derived pixel. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080317286 | SECURITY DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A security device and system is disclosed. This security device is particularly useful in a security system where there are many security cameras to be monitored. This device automatically highlights to a user a camera feed in which an incident is occurring. This assists a user in identifying incidents and to make an appropriate decision regarding whether or not to intervene. This highlighting is performed by a trigger signal generated in accordance with a comparison between a sequence of representations of sensory data and other corresponding sequences of representations of sensory data. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080313179 | INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - An information retrieval apparatus is described for searching a set of information items and displaying the results of the search, the information items each having a set of characterizing information features. The apparatus comprises a search processor to search information items in accordance with user-defined characterizing information features and identify information items with corresponding characterizing information features. A mapping processor generates a map of information items, similar information items mapping to similar positions in the array, from a set of information items identified in the search. The apparatus includes a graphical user interface with a user control for selecting information items, and the search processor refines the search to identify information items relating to the selected information item. As such the user is provided with a facility for refining a search, and searching and navigating large amounts of data are thereby made easier. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310828 | TELEVISION SIGNAL RECORDING - A television signal recording apparatus comprises a recording unit capable of making recordings of television signals and stores metadata representing information in respect of the recordings including the channel and the recording time. A graphical display of made recordings and scheduled recordings is produced. In the graphical display, graphical objects representing respective recordings are arranged in two dimensions. The graphical objects are ordered in a first dimension on the basis of the channels and ordered in a second dimension on the basis of the recording times. In the second dimension, the graphical objects are arranged along a time axis which includes discontinuities at times when no recording is scheduled to be made, the discontinuities being graphically represented. An electronic program guide is produced with a similar format, the programs being filtered to select programs and discontinuities being present at times where there is no selected program. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080298487 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, and the order being determined from a set of addresses. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator. The address generator includes a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080282184 | INFORMATION HANDLING - An information handling apparatus, in which metadata is generated in respect of a current information item by reference to an ensemble of information items having associated metadata, the metadata having corresponding indicator data representing a degree of trust associated with that metadata, comprises a detector for detecting one or more predetermined properties of the current information item, a detector for detecting a subset of information items from the ensemble of information items, the subset being those which have the one or more predetermined properties most similar to those of the current information item, associating logic arranged to associate with the current information item metadata from one or more of the subset of information items such that the metadata associated with the current information item is allocated indicator data representing a low degree of trust in the association of that metadata and the current information item, and a detector for detecting user interaction with the apparatus which is relevant to an information item and its associated metadata, and for altering the indicator data associated with metadata in response to such user interaction. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080278624 | Video Processing - A video processing apparatus in which at least a subset of output pixels of an output image are generated from one or more input images using motion vectors having a sub-pixel accuracy. A band filter derives lower and higher spatial frequency portions from the one or more input images. A lower frequency contribution relating to a pixel position nearest a required output pixel position from the lower spatial frequency portion is derived using a respective motion vector. A higher frequency contribution from the higher spatial frequency portion is derived using the respective motion vector. A spatial filter generates, from one or more of the higher frequency contributions, a higher frequency pixel value at the required pixel position. A combiner combines the lower frequency contribution and the higher frequency pixel value to generate an output pixel value relating to the required pixel position. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080275697 | Audio Processing - An audio processing apparatus for processing two sampled audio signals to detect a temporal position of one of the audio signals with respect to the other. The apparatus detects audio power characteristics of each signal in respect of successive continuous temporal portions of each of the two signals, the portions having identical lengths and each portion including at least two audio samples, and correlates the detected audio power characteristics in respect of the two audio signals to establish a most likely temporal offset between the two audio signals. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080273707 | Audio Processing - An audio processing apparatus in which two audio signals are compared to establish differences between the two audio signals. The apparatus derives, from the two audio signals, a transform response representing a relationship between the two audio signals; applies the transform response to one of the audio signals so as to generate a transformed signal which is more like the other audio signal; and detects a difference signal representing differences between the transformed audio signal and the other audio signal. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080272950 | Analogue to Digital Conversion - An analog-to-digital conversion arrangement converting an input analog signal into an output digital representation. Two or more analog-to-digital conversion paths each applying a conversion mapping between input analog signal magnitudes and respective digital values generate an intermediate representation of the input analog signal, the conversion paths being operable to apply different respective conversion mappings. An output circuit combines the intermediate representations from at least two conversion paths to generate the output digital representation, the intermediate representations being combined according to a weighting dependent on the magnitude of the input analog signal. At least one of the conversion paths has an enhanced sensitivity mode appropriate to a range of magnitudes of the input signal that are below a threshold magnitude. Control logic inhibits operation in the enhanced sensitivity mode if the magnitude of the input analog signal exceeds the threshold magnitude. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080240674 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240518 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE - An image capture apparatus comprises a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image, generator for generating a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display, a facial recognition unit operable to determine the position of a face within the feedback image, an image corruptor operable to corrupt the feedback image with respect to the position of a face within the feedback image as determined by the facial recognition unit, and an image capture initiator operable to initiate the capture of an output image subsequent to corruption of the feedback image. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080224746 | Charge Pump Circuit - A charge pump circuit including an input rail, an output rail, a voltage rail, a control line, an MOS input transistor including a gate and a channel connected between the input rail and the voltage rail, and an MOS output transistor including a gate and a channel connected between the output rail and the voltage rail. The gate of the input transistor is connected to the gate of the output transistor and a switch connects the channel of the output transistor to the voltage rail in response to a signal on the control line. The channel of an input cascode transistor connects the channel of the input transistor to the input rail and the channel of an output cascode transistor connects the channel of the output transistor to the output rail. The gate of the input cascode transistor is connected to the gate of the output cascode transistor. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080209470 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE GENERATION - A receiver-decoder apparatus has a receiver-decoder circuit capable of receiving and decoding broadcast television signals of different services to generate therefrom a video signal for display of an image on a display device. The apparatus has an EPG generator for generating a signal for display on said display device of an electronic program guide listing services and events in respect of those services. The EPG generator identifies further events which are related to respective events in the electronic program guide. In the electronic program guide, the further events are shown associated with the events to which they are related. The events in respect of each service are shown by blocks arranged along a time line. The further events are shown by adjacent blocks scaled to create a perspective view of the blocks of the further events being more distant than the blocks of the events to which they are related. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080204593 | Scan Convertion Image Filtering - An image processing apparatus in which output pixels of an output image are generated with respect to input pixels of an input image, a first subset of the output pixels being identical to respective input pixels and a second subset of the output pixels being derived from respective groups of one or more input pixels. The apparatus includes a spatial filter arrangement for filtering the second subset of pixels, the filter not being applied to filter the first subset of output pixels, the filter arrangement having a response such that high spatial frequencies are attenuated in the output image. | 08-28-2008 |
