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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2005
Applicants:

Kenji Ito, Saitama-ken, JP;

Kenji Funamoto, Saitama-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Ito, Saitama-ken, JP;

Kenji Funamoto, Saitama-ken, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A digital camera and a image signal generating method capable of generating both an image signal for displaying an object image and additional information on a display component. and an image signal to be supplied to a connected external display device, with a simple configuration. Video additional information data is generated which includes in the period corresponding to the horizontal blanking period of the composite video signal digital data representing additional information to be displayed with the object image on the LCD, and in the period corresponding to the video period of the composite video signal digital data representing the object image. The digital data in the period corresponding to the horizontal blanking period is masked and a horizontal synchronizing signal and color burst are superimposed.


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