Trident Microsystems Patent Applications

SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RENDER 3D IMAGES FROM A 2D SOURCE

Granted: October 11, 2012
Application Number: 20120256906
A system and method to render 3D images from a 2D source are described. An embodiment of a method to render 3D images from a 2D source comprises the steps of providing a graphics rendering device to estimate depth of a 2D image; providing video or graphics textures and depth-maps to describe an object in a 3D scene; creating, in one embodiment, a single view angle and in another preferred embodiment at least two view angles of the 3D scene to represent an intraocular distance using the…

SUBTITLE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD TO TELEVISION VIDEO

Granted: August 16, 2012
Application Number: 20120206567
A sub-title detection system and method for television video are provided in which a static region detection is performed, and the results of the static region detection are pruned using a feature based on density of horizontal transition pairs, an intelligent adaptive temporal filtering is performed that uses object-level subtitle information and has suitable properties for integration in a streaming video environment, rectangular bounding boxes are computed around the subtitle using…

Block Matching In Motion Estimation

Granted: February 2, 2012
Application Number: 20120027262
A video processor comprises an instruction set of programmed operations for operating on video data. The instruction set has an instruction which corresponds to a programmed operation for performing a motion estimation calculation between pixel data in frames of video data. The programmed operation causes the processor to calculate a measure of motion estimation at each of a plurality of search locations within a search window. The processor comprises a plurality of calculation units…

PROFILE FOR FRAME RATE CONVERSION

Granted: September 29, 2011
Application Number: 20110234894
The present application relates to a method for frame rate conversion. The present application relates also to a system for frame rate conversion and a computer comprising said frame rate. In addition, the present application relates to a computer readable medium having a computer program for performing said method. The method comprises defining a first frame rate profile with a first frame rate, defining at least a second frame rate profile with a second frame rate, rendering video…

METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOCK RASTER

Granted: September 15, 2011
Application Number: 20110222780
The present invention describes a method for the detection of a block raster in an image that has a plurality of pixels, to each of which at least one pixel value is assigned and which are situated one next to another along horizontal and vertical pixel boundaries (x0, x0+1), the method including: a) defining a raster having raster boundaries (xj+dxj), which run either parallel to the vertical pixel boundaries or parallel to the horizontal pixel boundaries, and the position of which…

Method and apparatus for motion estimation and motion compensation in video image data

Granted: August 25, 2011
Application Number: 20110205438
The present invention is related to a method and an apparatus for motion estimation and motion compensation in video image data and especially for line based field rate up-conversion motion estimation and motion compensation of video image data.

Method and Device for Processing Received Data of a Radio Interface

Granted: February 17, 2011
Application Number: 20110038446
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing received data (I1/Q1, I2/Q2; d1, d2) of a radio interface, wherein the received data includes a sequence of data which have been transmitted for the purpose of error reduction through different branches of a carrier (Rk) of the radio interface, and which are combined into a sequence of data (DATAOUT) to be outputted, wherein the combining is implemented on the basis of carrier information values (Req,k, SINRk) of the…

MOTION JUDDER CANCELLATION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES

Granted: August 12, 2010
Application Number: 20100201882
In a device for processing baseband signal images (BS), a film detector determines whether a same baseband signal image includes both information from a film image and information from a video source image, information from one film image being present in at least two baseband signal images while information from one video source image is present in only one baseband signal image. A processing unit processing the baseband signal images in such a manner that in the presence of both…

Dual Layer Printed Circuit Board

Granted: August 5, 2010
Application Number: 20100195277
Memory systems are disclosed which are comprised of a two or dual layer printed circuit board. Attached to the top layer of the dual layer printed circuit board are a memory chip and a memory controller with aligned, optimistic pin outs that optimized signal integrity layouts between certain high speed pins in a single layer. A set of high speed lines, including the data lines, that do not include any vias connect certain of the pins of the memory controller to certain of the pins of the…

METHOD OF SETTING CONTRAST IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING, AND AN ARRANGEMENT FOR THIS PURPOSE

Granted: August 5, 2010
Application Number: 20100195905
The invention relates to a method of setting contrast in digital image processing in which a brightness distribution in the form of a histogram is produced from image pixels and the histogram is revised with the help of transfer functions, and in which a linear increase in contrast takes place in a region of the image.

DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR DATA RATE ACQUISITION

Granted: October 22, 2009
Application Number: 20090262874
A baud rate acquisition circuit (10) for synchronizing a sampling signal with an input signal operates in broad rate sweeping and a rate fine tuning phases. In the rate sweeping phase, a timing error detector (24) examines the sampling signal generated by a decimator (16). If the sampling signal is outside a rate acquisition range from the target rate, a rate sweeping algorithm selects a new sampling rate. In response to the sampling rate within the rate acquisition range, the timing…