Sony Corporation

Tsuyoshi Hirano

Hiroyuki Segawa

Osamu Oda

Miwako Yoritate

Takayuki Shiomi

Etsuko Morota

Kenichi Konuma

Masaharu Fukumoto

Kayo Kono

An apparatus to proceed data received from a broadcast signal, where the data includes a plurality of formats. The apparatus comprises: means for separating the data from the broadcast signal into a plurality of formats; layer image signal generating means for generating layer image signals of predetermined sizes, wherein each layer image signal is separately positioned; display section signal generating means for generating display section signal for each layer image signal; and adaptive image processing means for superimposing the layer image signals and for subjecting each superimposed layer image signal corresponding to the display section signal to adaptive image processing according to a preset parameter of each layer image signal.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

Disclosed is an image processing method and an image processing apparatus that improve quality of display images in different formats of a multi-format data broadcast image. The image processing method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: separating menu data, character data, still image data, and moving image data in a plurality of formats from a broadcast video signal; generating a layer image signal such that the image signal of data in each of the formats is superimposable on the data in the plurality of formats; and subjecting the superimposed layer image signal to adaptive image processing according to a preset parameter by means of an adaptive image processing unit. Therefore, by subjecting each layer to different image processing irrespective of the type and the format of the signal, it is possible to perform image processing adapted to each format.

A monitor device capable of setting and adjusting various function items with an operation system having fewer number of keys and fitting an operation sense of a user. The movement of the cursor, and the change of the sound volume display and all kinds of adjustment values in a submenu can be performed with a tablet key which can be pressed and slide-operated with the result that almost all of the setting and adjustment on all kinds of functions of the monitor device can be performed with fewer required than keys of the conventional operation system.

Display control device

In the velocity modulation apparatus for a three-tube projection television, an effective velocity modulation can be implemented under due consideration of humans eye's relative visibility characteristics with respect to the three primary colors of R, G and B, and the velocity modulation apparatus includes a VM signal extracting circuit 1 for extracting a velocity modulation (VM) signal from the luminance signal; a plurality of driving circuits 3 to 5 having three different gains at ratios of 0. 3:0. 59:0. 11; and a red color VM coil 7, a green color VM coil 8 and a blue color VM coil 9 provided for three corresponding Braun tubes, respectively and driven by the driving circuits 3 to 5, respectively. Since the respective gains of the driving circuits 3 to 5 are previously determined in correspondence to the eye's relative visibility of the three primary colors of R, G and B, it is possible to perform the velocity modulation being based on the practical emphasis at picture image contours, and thereby to eliminate wasteful power consumption.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Hirano