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US 5,489,952 AGranted
Method and device for multi-format television
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsRobert J. Gove, Jeffrey B. Sampsell, Vishal Markandey
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Abstract
A multi-format display system including hardware and algorithms for digital and High Definition Television. The system includes a light source (120), a tuner/preprocessor unit (114), a processor unit (116), a spatial light modulator (118), and a display surface (128). The processor unit can scale and format the data for a number of standardized-format video broadcast signals, and can perform additional interpolation to eliminate artifacts.
Claims10
A multi-format television system comprising:
- a. a processing unit, operable to change the dimensions of an image;
- b. a spatial light modulator for forming said image directly from digital data;
- c. a light source for providing light to said spatial light modulator for forming said image;
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- d. a surface on which to display said image.
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