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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2005
Applicant:
Hiroshi Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04N 5/46 (2006.01); H04N 9/79 (2006.01); H04N 7/26 (2006.01); H04N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A video signal processing apparatus able to obtain a suitable still image from a squeezed video signal, including a converting unit configured to judge whether or not a video signal has been squeezed based on an input video signal and aspect information indicating the aspect ratio of the video signal and to inverse-squeeze it to the designated video signal when judging that it was squeezed as a result of the judgment to convert it to a video signal of a still image of a prescribed image size and a still image recording and/or reproduction unit configured to record the video signal of the still image converted by the converting unit.