Television – Image signal processing circuitry specific to television – Special effects
Patent
1994-11-30
1996-08-06
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Image signal processing circuitry specific to television
Special effects
348600, 348564, 348565, H04N 5262, H04N 5445
Patent
active
055438571
ABSTRACT:
A television receiver, includes a graphics generator for generating for display a stylized image of the environment in which the user's physical television receiver is situated. The image includes graphical representations of functions which are available for selection and control by a user, and at least one of which functions affect the display of the video image. In one embodiment of the invention, a video inset-image from a PIP unit is completely surrounded by a graphics image. The PIP image is aligned with the screen of a graphically displayed television receiver to portray an image of a television displaying an received television program. Alternatively, an animated graphics presentation is displayed in the screen area of the graphically-displayed television receiver to simulate live video. In another embodiment, a stylized display of the user's room is altered in response to user input regarding the user's consumer electronics equipment, and submenu operational choices are enabled or disabled accordingly.
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"Copies of Actual Screen Displays produced by Sony STR-D 1090 and STR-D2090 FM Stereo Receivers".
Augaitis Sheila R.
Dinwiddie Aaron H.
Logan Robert J.
Miller Robert H.
Wehmeyer Keith R.
Emanuel Peter M.
Hsia Sherrie
Kostak Victor R.
Lenihan Thomas F.
Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.
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