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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1985
David E Lake, Jr, Penn Valley, CA (US);
Robert L Miller, Davis, CA (US);
The Grass Valley Group, Inc., Grass Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed which provides for the placement of a border video signal around a selected object in a video image. A video image of the selected object is first inserted into a video image of a selected border video signal in a video mixing process by use of a key signal defining the selected object. The key signal is further processed to transform the step transitions associated therewith between the zero and full insert states into non-step transitions. The transformed key signal is thereafter used to control a subsequent mixing of the resulting image of the selected object inserted into the video image of the border video signal with a background image to produce a composite video image.