Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

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Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Jon Arthur Fairhurst

Jeffrey Brian Sampsell

Mark Gregory Hanley

Bryan Hallberg

Henry Y Fang

Vishnu Kumar Shivaj Rao

Sachin G Deshpande

Christopher A Segall

Simon J Gibbs

Larry Alan Westerman

Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams

Eugene Paul Martinez, Jr

Neil David Matthews

Vishnu Kumar Shivaji Rao

Arunachalam Balaraman

Vishnu Kumar Shivaja Rao

A device may be configured to receive video data including a sequence of frames. The sequence of video frames may have a high frame rate. A high frame rate may include frame rate of 120 Hz or higher. In one example, for every other frame included in the sequence of frames, the device may generate a modified frame. A modified frame may include a frame based on a weighted average of a current frame and a previous frame.

Systems and methods for reducing artifacts in temporal scalable layers of video

Method and apparatus for use with televisions having an internal Java engine are included among the embodiments. In exemplary systems, a PCMCIA port allows the Java engine to load and execute Java applets selected by the viewer. Provision is made for system-aware applets to run concurrently with platform-independent applets on different Java display planes that are merged for display. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Television having a java engine and a removable device port

An electronic device is disclosed that is adapted for use in a distributed network of electronic devices. The device includes a processor, a communications layer and memory. The communications layer is in electronic communication with the processor for communications with the distributed network. The memory is in electronic communication with the processor for storing data. A software element is configured by an application to send a request to a plurality of receiver components where the request requires a response from each receiver component of the plurality of receiver components. The device also includes a smart listener configured to receive the request from the software element and to store the request in the memory. The smart listener is configured to transmit the request to the plurality of receiver components through the distributed network and to listen for responses from any of the plurality of receiver components.

Listening module for asynchronous messages sent between electronic devices of a distributed network

Some embodiments of the invention include a television system having an internal microphone for implementing a voice-messaging system. Using the microphone, the television system detects a message spoken by a user of the television system, and records the message to a memory. Some embodiments of the invention may also record metadata about the message. Embodiments of the invention alert an intended recipient of the message using the audio output or video output of the television system, and subsequently reproduce the message using the audio output of the television system. Other embodiments of the invention are described in the specification and the claims.

Method and apparatus for capturing audio input using a television

A plural-source-capable, broadcast-reception, audio/video system and methodology which freely enable the simultaneous display, on a single television receiver screen, of different categories of these broadcast-information components which may be being broadcast at the same time from two different broadcast sources.

Plural-source, selectable, combined image/text single-screen display

A method and system for communicating state information for a target consumer electronic device in a home network to multiple controller devices, where the controller devices are each implementing a controller software element that conforms to a different protocol than the other. The target consumer electronic device is represented within the home network by a target software element. A first controller software element conforming to a data driven interaction (DDI) protocol accesses the target software element. A second controller software element conforming to a protocol different from the DDI protocol concurrently accesses the target software element. The first controller software element and the second controller software element cause a change in state of the consumer electronic device. The target software element notifies the first controller software element and the second controller software element of the state information for the target consumer electronic device. The target software element notifies the first controller software element according to the DDI protocol and notifies the second controller software element according to the protocol different from the DDI protocol. The first controller software element and the second controller software element use the state information to manage their respective user interfaces such that consistency is maintained between the user interfaces.

Synchronizing a data driven interaction controller and a non-data driven interaction controller

A first device includes a processor, a first memory, and a memory manager. A second device includes a second memory and a first application program, and a third device includes a third memory and a second application program. The first application program is loaded into the first memory to be executed by the processor. Application program variables related to the first application are stored in the first memory. The second application program to be executed by the processor is loaded into the memory in at least a partially overlapping manner of the first application program. The creation of second application program variables related to the second application program in the first memory is in a region not occupied by the first application program. Alternatively, the first and second application programs may be in the same device and/or memory.

Computer system with efficient memory usage for managing multiple application programs

A real-time video production technique using recursive techniques adds an output framestore, a feedback storage unit and a synchronized controller to a pipelined video processing system. Partial composites are stored in the feedback storage unit while complete composites are stored in the output framestore. The output framestore provides a preview video during the video processing. For automatic assembly where the feedback storage unit has a length of many frames the complete composites are stored also in the feedback storage unit and a multiplexer is used to select the complete composites either from the output framestore for each new complete composite or from the feedback storage unit otherwise.

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Camas, WA, United States of America

Jon Arthur Fairhurst