Kenneth A Haas

US Patent:

6037926, Mar 14, 2000

Filed:

Nov 18, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/342412

Inventors:

Kenneth John Haas - Indianapolis IN
Theodore Frederick Simpson - Lancaster PA

Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis IN

International Classification:

G09G 500

US Classification:

345132

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for using a wide screen television receiver operating at 2f. sub. H as a VGA or SVGA monitor. The VGA or SVGA board in a computer is programmed to generate an RGB video signal representing a picture having fewer than a normal number of horizontal lines than a conventional VGA or SVGA picture having a 4:3 format display ratio, in order to define a picture having a wide format display ratio, for example 16:9. The separate synchronizing signals of the RGB video signal are converted in polarity and phase, as necessary, to a form recognizable by a video processing circuit of the wide screen television receiver.

US Patent:

53313518, Jul 19, 1994

Filed:

Feb 10, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/009301

Inventors:

Kenneth J. Haas - Indianapolis IN

Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis IN

International Classification:

H04N 546

US Classification:

348558

Abstract:

A VCR or laserdisc player includes circuitry for detecting a code provided by VCR tapes, tape cassettes, or laser videodiscs, which indicates that the material recorded on the videotape or videodisc has been recorded in a compressed fashion to enable proper playback on a 16. times. 9 television receiver. In response to detection of this code, the VCR or laserdisc player applies a DC signal to the chrominance output terminal of its S-Video connector. Circuitry in the television receiver detects the DC signal on the chrominance terminal of its S-Video input connector, and controls a wide-screen processor to expand the image by displaying it over the entire width of the 16. times. 9 display screen.