Video signal format
CA 1233237 A · Owner: Grass Valley Group, Inc. (The) · Inventors: Dayton, Birney D.; Stanger, Leon J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
42, Abstract, A video signal that is representative of a wide scene comprises signal elements corresponding to a plurality of horizontal line intervals of a raster. A luminance component and two chrominance components are included in each horizontal line interval, in time-compressed sequential relationship. The video signal also incorporates information representative of a number in the range from zero to the difference between the aspect ratio of the wide scene and the aspect ratio of a scene represented by a conventional video signal format. This information determines the portion of the wide scene that is represented by a video signal of the conventional format derived from the video …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted February 23, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 23, 2005.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.