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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:
Sep. 16, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Katsuakira Moriwake, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Shiraishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395110 ; 382276 ;
Abstract
In an image transformation apparatus for performing image transformation process to a video signal. A sequential read address is transformed based on the function of which a first differential coefficient reduces monotonously in a manner approaching '0' from '1', and the video signal is read out from a storing means by this transformed read address, so as to add an image collapsing effect to the video signal.