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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:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard H. Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fox Sports Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/272 ; H04N 5/275 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/272 ; H04N 5/275 ;
Abstract
A system for enhancing the television presentation of an object that can highlight the object without obscuring the image of the object. The system receives a first video image, matches a second video image to a portion of the first video image corresponding to the image of the object. Specific pixels within the portion of the first video image which are not part of the image of the object are modified using a pixel from the second video image.