Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Rca Licensing Corporation

Hitachi Video and Information System, Inc.

Hitachi Ltd. & Hitachi Video Eng.

Hitachi Video Information System, Inc.

Shigeru Hirahata

Kenji Katsumata

Masato Sugiyama

Isao Nakagawa

Sunao Suzuki

Tsuguji Tachiuchi

Shigeru Komatsu

Takaaki Matono

Kazuhiro Kaizaki

Toshinori Murata

Kazuo Ishikura

Makoto Aikawa

Haruki Takata

Masahiko Achiha

Shinobu Torikoshi

Akihide Okuda

Teruhiro Takezawa

Kouichi Ishibashi

Takaharu Noguchi

Kazuo Takaragi

Manabu Sasamoto

Tetsuya Ikeda

Mituo Konno

Tohru Suzaki

Hiroo Okamoto

Takafumi Miyatake

Akio Nagasaka

Todd J Christopher

Ikuya Arai

Yuichi Ninomiya

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Yoshimichi Kudo

Tadashi Kasezawa

Takanori Eda

Takumi Okamura

Noriyuki Yamaguchi

Yukitoshi Tsuboi

Masaharu Yao

Toyota Honda

Noboru Kojima

Koichi Yamaguchi

Toshiyuki Sakamoto

Soichi Furuya

Toshiro Ohmura

Isao Kondo

Tatsuo Nagata

Kunihiko Nagai

Takuo Koyama

Tetsuo Mitsuhashi

Yoshikazu Amano

Takuzi Kurashita

Mitsuo Konno

Atushi Haratani

Nobuo Onuki

A digital information recording apparatus to record digital information to protect copyright of digital information that includes at least first digital information and first copy control information. The digital information recording apparatus records the digital information based upon the first copy control information, which denotes one of: a copy inhibition prohibiting copying of said first digital information; a limited copy permission authorizing a predetermined number of times of copying of said first digital information; and an unlimited copy permission authorizing unlimited copying of said first digital information.

Recording apparatus for recording digital information

An encrypting conversion apparatus, a decrypting conversion apparatus, a cryptographic communication system and an electronic toll collection apparatus are provided which are capable of changing algorithms of cryptographic conversion to hide the algorithm in use from a third party so that the apparatuses and system are resistant against a cryptographic attack from the third party and can operate at high speed. In the cryptographic communication system.

Encrypting conversion apparatus, decrypting conversion apparatus, cryptographic communication system, and electronic toll collection apparatus

Encrypting/decrypting conversion method and apparatus capable of controlling dynamically cyclic shift independent of data to undergo encrypting/decrypting conversion includes two or more different fixed circulating shift processing means for shifting cyclically the data by a fixed bit number leftward or rightward, a cyclic shift processing selecting means for selecting fixed cyclic shift processing means. The selecting sequence determined by the cyclic shift processing means is determined on the basis of data for determining the shift number selecting sequence.

Data encrypting/decrypting conversion methods and apparatuses and data communication system adopting the same

A method for presentation of information of a recorded television program for allowing user to seize easily and quickly content/composition thereof, and an easily manipulable interface therefor. Picture signal of a television program currently being recorded by a VTR or the like is converted into a frame-based picture signal. Frames indicating inter-shot transitions are detected and stored as shot-representative pictures for thereby generating a digest picture file composed of a set of the shot-representative pictures substantially simultaneously with recording operation of the VTR. In a digest picture display, the shot-representative pictures are displayed in a temporally sequential order in which they were generated in such a form that a predetermined number of shot-representative pictures are displayed in each of predetermined time zones in a uniform array, for facilitating comprehension of the contents of the television picture as recorded. Additionally, by selecting one of the shot-representative pictures being displayed a temporal position of the television picture from which reproduction is to be started can visually be determined.

Method and apparatus for making a digest picture

To provide an image which is matched with an aspect ratio of a screen of a display unit by compressing and enlarging the whole of the image to a desired size. A video signal is sequentially written into a field memory in response to a write clock from an input terminal. A clock generating circuit supplies the field memory with a read clock having a frequency which is about 4/3 times as high as that of the write clock. A vertical enlargement control circuit reads a video signal from the field memory with a line period corresponding to a magnification factor and inhibits writing to a one-line memory with the same period to provide a line delayed output for an output signal from the field memory. A vertical interpolating circuit generates a scanning line signal by an interpolation operation in accordance with a control signal from the vertical enlargement control circuit.

Television receiver capable of enlarging and compressing image

Disclosed is a wide picture plane/standard picture plane television signal receiving apparatus which comprises: a first signal processing circuit for doubling the scanning speed of an input standard television signal; an aspect ratio conversion circuit for converting a display aspect ratio of the double scanning speed television signal from the first signal processing circuit into a wide aspect ratio; a second signal processing circuit for processing an input EDTV television signal into a double scanning speed television signal with a wide aspect ratio; a first signal selection circuit for selecting one of the respective output signals from the aspect ratio conversion circuit and the second signal processing circuit; a wide aspect display device for displaying the selected output signal from the first signal selection circuit; an EDTV signal detection circuit for detecting the processing effected on the EDTV signal in the second signal processing circuit to thereby switch the contact of the first signal selection circuit to its second signal processing circuit side from its first signal processing circuit side.

Apparatus for receiving wide/standard picture plane television signal

A wide-screen television receiver capable of converting a TV signal of a non-aspect ratio into a signal of a wide aspect ratio which can be displayed on a wide screen of the wide aspect ratio and previously visually informing the user of what part of the image of the non-aspect ratio TV signal is converted in its aspect ratio and displayed on the wide screen. The receiver includes the interpolation scan speed conversion circuit, the mode setting circuit, the aspect ratio converting circuit, the wide cursor adding circuit and the wide display. The interpolation scan speed conversion circuit makes a series of processes such as Y/C separation and scan line interpolation for the input video signal supplied via the input terminal. The aspect ratio converting circuit compresses the video signal from the interpolation scan speed conversion circuit in the horizontal direction by use of a memory. The magnification processing circuit is provided after the aspect ratio converting circuit. This magnification processing circuit magnifies the horizontally compressed video signal so that an arbitrary part of image specified by the mode setting circuit can be magnified at given magnification powers in the horizontal and vertical direction. The wide screen display displays the magnified image of the video signal without horizontal and vertical distortions on the wide screen.

Wide-screen television receiver with aspect ratio conversion function

A video signal processing circuit is provided to display an image of a standard television signal on a display unit with a 6:9 aspect ratio by enlarging an image of a video signal in the horizontal and vertical directions by a magnification factor which depends on the feature of the standard television signal. The processing circuit includes a first memory circuit which reads out the stored video signal in response to a read clock different from the write clock and generated by a stable frequency source so that the image of the video signal is expanded in the vertical direction, a second memory circuit which implements time-base compression for the output of the first memory circuit and thereafter expands the signal, a spatial filter which implements filtering for the output of the second memory circuit, an enlargement control circuit which control the above-mentioned circuits, and a synchronizing processing circuit. The circuit arrangement enables video signals of various image sizes, such as for movie pictures, to be displayed by signal conversion on a display unit with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and is capable of suppressing jitters of video signals.

Compatible wide aspect ratio receiver with spatial filtering for

In a motion-adaptive television signal processor, a field as a reference for a moving picture signal includes a signal delayed by a frame memory or a field memory. A non-standard signal is beforehand processed so as to separate Y and C signals, and the signal thus processed is input to a motion-adaptive processor to thereby reduce a deviation in center of gravity between a still picture signal and a moving picture signal on the timebase to thereby suppress unnatural motion of the picture.

Image signal correction circuit and image signal processor using the

A wide television receiver which converts a video input signal having an aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9 into a display format permitting selecting of display with horizontal compression, without horizontal compression, with vertical magnification, or without vertical magnification to present the display on a wide display having an aspect ratio 16:9.

Signal processor for a wide televison receiver

A television for receiving two or more types of television signals capable of displaying an image irrespective of the types of a received television signal and a display for displaying an image, by controlling, in accordance with the receiving television signal and the display, a processor and aspect ratio converter for demodulating the received television signal.

Processing circuit for a plurality of different TV signals

A video signal processing circuit capable of enlarging and displaying a picture and adapted for use in an apparatus in which a desired picture is selected, and a video signal representative of the desired picture under interlaced scanning is received, stored in a memory and processed to provide an enlarged video signal, includes a real signal/interpolated signal preparation circuit for preparing, from the stored video signal, new scanning lines for an image to be enlarged, and a memory processing circuit having switching control function to store an output signal of the real signal/interpolated signal preparation circuit in a memory, read the video signal out of the memory at a period different from a period at which the output signal is stored in the memory, and delay a read-out signal by one or more fields so that an enlarged signal is delivered.

Video signal processing circuit capable of enlarging and displaying a

There is disclosed a compatible television receiver capable of receiving and reproducing both the standard system television signal and the high definition television signal and capable of confining the degradation of picture quality of the high definition television signal to the minimum, in which the received standard system television signal and high definition television signal are respectively converted to non-interlace signals, and scanning is selectively performed with either of non-interlace video signals to display images. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises a first conversion circuit for receiving an interlace standard system television signal and converting it into a non-interlace television signal, a second conversion circuit for receiving an interlace high definition television signal and converting it into a non-interlace televison signal, a circuit for discriminating whether the received signal is the standard system television signal or the high definition signal, and a circuit for selecting either of outputs of the first and second conversion circuits on the basis of the result obtained in the discrimination circuit.

Television receiver compatible with both standard system television

A video signal processing circuit capable of enlarging and displaying a picture and adapted for use in an apparatus in which a desired picture is selected, and a video signal representative of the desired picture under interlaced scanning is received, stored in a memory and processed to provide an enlarged video signal, comprises includes a real signal/interpolated signal preparation circuit for preparing, from the stored video signal, new scanning lines for an image to be enlarged, and a memory processing circuit having switching control function to store an output signal of the real signal/interpolated signal preparation circuit in a memory, read the video signal out of the memory at a period different from a period at which the output signal is stored in the memory, and delay a read-out signal by one or more fields so that an enlarged signal is delivered.

A motion information signal generating circuit comprises a motion detecting circuit for detecting a piece of motion information from a digitized television signal; a temporal-spatial signal processing circuit for expanding a signal representing the so detected motion information both in time and space and a noise eliminator circuit connected between the motion detecting circuit and the temporal-spatial signal processing circuit. The noise eliminator circuit has at least one 1H memory to detect the correlation between the motion information signals pertaining to two adjacent picture elements which are one horizontal sweep line part, and for instance, the motion information signal of a smaller data quantity is selected, thereby preventing appearance of a false motion signal which would be caused by a noise of increased amplitude.

Motion signal generating circuit for use in a television receiver

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