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US 2009/0262135 A1Published application
Overlaid images on tv
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsJAMES HUSTON, YUKO NISHIKAWA, JOHN SALISBURY, MONISH SUBHERWAL
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Abstract
An ambient, beautiful, entertaining visual experience that can be displayed on a TV requiring little or no user interaction beyond initiation. Multiple image layers that may be still or moving video, photos, etc, or a combination thereof can be overlaid on each other.
Claims18
A TV system, comprising:
- a TV display;
- and
- a processor receiving a user signal to enter a special mode in which a first semi-transparent image layer is superimposed onto a solid base image layer and both layers are presented simultaneously on the TV display.
A TV system, comprising:
- a TV display;
- a TV tuner;
- and
- a processor simultaneously presenting on the TV display a solid base image layer and superimposed on the solid base image layer at least a first semi- transparent image layer with an alpha blend established to achieve semi-transparency, such that both the solid base image layer and first semi-transparent image layer are simultaneously visible.
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A method, comprising:
- establishing a solid base image layer on a TV display using one of:
- TV signal input, digital photograph input, video disk input;
- superimposing over the solid base image layer such that at least a portion of the laser image layer remains visible a semi-transparent image layer, where
- the semi-transparent image layer is derived from a video stream and/or a photograph.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.