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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:
Dec. 25, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 10, 2008
Applicants:

Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshinori Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;

Takuro Ema, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Akiwa, Saitama, JP;

Inventors:

Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshinori Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;

Takuro Ema, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Akiwa, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is an image signal generating apparatus that includes a video information obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of video information, a characteristic information obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of predetermined characteristic information from each of the plurality of video information obtained by the video information obtaining unit, and a sorting unit that changes an order of displaying the plurality of the video information based on each of the plurality of characteristic information obtained from the characteristic information obtaining unit. The image signal generating apparatus further includes a display image signal generating unit that generates a video signal to display the plurality of video information based on information obtained, as a result of changing the order of displaying the plurality of the video information, from the sorting unit.


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