System and Methods for the Simultaneous Display of Multiple Video Signals in High Definition Format

• US 20130125184A1
• Filed: 01/07/2013
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Geno Valente, Mary Beth Valente
• Original Assignee: Geno Valente, Mary Beth Valente
• Inventors: Valente, Geno, Valente, Mary Beth
• Granted Patent: US 8,760,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25 Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43635 HDMI
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0125 one of the standards being a high definition standard
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0806 the signals being two or more video signals H04N7/0803, H04N7/081 take precedence

Abstract

A scaling engine, blending mechanism, memory controller, frame buffer and video driver are included within a semiconductor, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), to provide broadcasting of signals at a high resolution format by combining two or more low resolution video signals to create a high resolution signal in real-time High Definition format, such as 1080 p. The high resolution signals can be concurrently displayed as one or more image areas on a display device in any contemplated size, number and arrangement.

Claims

1. A method for downloading and customizing Internet content to one or more display image areas of a display device, while simultaneously displaying television content comprising the steps of:

enabling access to one or more content servers;

receiving from the one or more content servers Internet content including public Internet content and customized Internet content, the Internet content comprising at least one of a Really Simple Syndication feed, a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document, a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) formatted image, a JPEG2000 formatted image, a Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG) formatted image, a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) formatted video, and combinations thereof;

receiving a selection of one or more Internet content chosen from the plurality of the Internet content to obtain selected Internet content;

wherein the obtained selected Internet content is customized by recreating the selected Internet content specific to the user to obtain customized Internet content, the customized Internet content including at least one of text, files, movies, graphics, clip art, photos, videos, sounds, advertisements, pictures, images, pod casts, wav files, hyperlinks, code, animations, instant messaging messages, a real-time informational ticker, and gaming content;

downloading the selected Internet content from the one or more content servers over an Internet connection;

blending the selected Internet content with television content into a video signal;

assembling the video signal into a frame buffer;

reading the frame buffer;

formatting the video signal into a high resolution video signal;

sending the high resolution video signal over an interface; and

displaying the high resolution video signal on a display device, wherein the high resolution video signal includes the simultaneous display of the customized Internet content and the television content each presented on the display device.