Television – Image signal processing circuitry specific to television – With details of static storage device
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-31
2003-10-14
Miller, John (Department: 2614)
Television
Image signal processing circuitry specific to television
With details of static storage device
C348S555000, C348S558000, C348S715000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06633344
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to processing progressive video signals in digital TV receivers.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A standard Digital TV receiver architecture reuses MPEG digital video processing circuitry for the processing of digitized analog signals. Although this approach works well for processing digitized analog interlaced signals (e.g., NTSC and PAL signals having 480i or 1080i vertical formats), standard Digital TV receivers have difficulty processing the progressively scanned signals that are often produced by VCRs, video game consoles, and cable system text generators (e.g., progressively scanned signals having 240p vertical formats). The present invention is directed to overcoming this difficulty.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A memory management process for buffering digital video data of various formats (i.e., progressive, interlaced, CCIR 601/656 compliant, and MPEG compliant formats) in a video memory that is partitioned into first and second buffers.
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Crabb Michael Evan
Flickner Andrew Kent
Li Wenhua
Worrell Charles William
Duffy Vincent E.
Kurdyla Ronald H.
Miller John
Thomson Licensing S.A.
Tran Trang U.
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