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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings, Sas, Paris, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including detecting, if any, black border regions surround a received frame of video program content and determining a size of the detected black border regions and if the sum of the determined size of the top and bottom black border regions surrounding the received frame of video program content is greater than a value, copying to a frame buffer, a video decoder buffer having a decoded frame of video program content stored therein and copying a secondary insertion decoder buffer to the frame buffer.