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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Chambers, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher D. Coley, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Marshall Williams, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeroen Heuvelman, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/120 ; H04N 1/100 ; H04N 7/08 ; H04N 7/084 ; H04N 7/087 ; G09G 5/00 ; G09G 5/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/120 ; H04N 1/100 ; H04N 7/08 ; H04N 7/084 ; H04N 7/087 ; G09G 5/00 ; G09G 5/26 ;
Abstract
A home theater comprises a video processing sub-system and a PC capable of controlling the sub-system. The sub-system has a de-interlacer/line doubler and the PC has a graphics controller with scaling capability. The combination of the line doubler and the scaler is made to function as a line quadrupler.