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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:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2001
Applicant:
David E. Zeidler, Warrington, PA (US);
Inventor:
David E. Zeidler, Warrington, PA (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N017/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for estimating a level of a predetermined portion of a video signal comprising the steps of determining a location of the predetermined portion of the video signal, sampling the video signal during the predetermined portion and estimating the level as an average of the samples of the video signal during the predetermined portion.