Moving frame display

• US 8,736,664 B1
• Filed: 01/15/2012
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James W. Gruenig
• Original Assignee: James W. Gruenig
• Inventors: Gruenig, James W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dastouri, Mehrdad
• Assistant Examiner(s): RAHAMAN, MOHAMMED S
• Application Number:
  US13/350,805
• Time in Patent Office: 863 Days
• Field of Search: 348/36
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/911 for the suppression of noise H04N5/932 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/93 Regeneration of the television signal or of selected parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An apparatus and method of providing a display that simplifies presentation of related video frames to enable a user to better see and interpret videos exhibiting a high degree of localized apparent image jitter. The present invention includes embodiments directed towards presentation of image sequences in a contextual display responsive to a contextual map for controlling apparent jitter and towards compositing for production of contextual maps by co-locating content alignment attributes which results in non-alignment of individual frames.

Claims

1. A video playback method for rendering a series of frames as a moving visual image stream using a display, a first frame of the series of frames sharing a content alignment attribute with a second frame of the series of frames, wherein the content alignment attribute has a different apparent location relative to a visible content of the first frame than it does relative to a visible content of the second frame, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) rendering the first frame of the series of frames as a first visual component of the moving visual image stream using the display, said rendering step (a) placing the first frame within a presentation system which positions the content alignment attribute of the first frame at a particular location; and

thereafter

(b) rendering the second frame of the series of frames later in time using as a subsequent visual component of the moving visual image stream using the display, said rendering step (b) placing the second frame within said presentation system to position the content alignment attribute of the second frame with a predefined relationship to said particular location wherein the second frame is non-aligned with the first frame;

wherein said rendering step (b) preserves a portion of any previously rendered content within said presentation system including the first frame;

wherein said portion of any previously rendered content is outside a boundary of the second frame; and

wherein said portion of any previously rendered content has an associated dwell period, with said portion of any previously rendered content removed from said presentation system after having been rendered in said presentation system for a time responsive to said associated dwell period.