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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:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel C. O'Connor, Beverly, MA (US);
Arthur Y. Ng, Waltham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Index Systems, Inc., Tortola, VI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 ; H04N 5/45 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 ; H04N 5/45 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A decimation system and method for providing video data to a PIG window in an EPG environment. In one embodiment, the system includes an EPG system having a picture in guide window, a tuner to generate a video signal, a decoder coupled to the tuner to receive the video signal and generate pixels based on the received signal, a PIG generator coupled to the decoder that performs a real time weighted averaging to select a subset of the pixels; and a display generator to display the subset of the pixels in the PIG window on a monitor.