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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:
Jan. 15, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Juri Tults, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 ;
Abstract
A graphical on-screen display (OSD) system, includes a decoder for decoding graphical OSD image representative data from an auxiliary information component of a video signal. An edge detector is coupled to the decoder and processes the OSD image representative data to detect an edge in the graphical OSD image. An edge smoother is coupled to both the decoder and the edge detector and generates signals representing a reproduced OSD image having a smoothed edge when an edge is detected.