IP Library Granted Patent US 8,390,664
Granted Patent B2
US 8,390,664 · App. 12/503,733 · Granted Mar 5, 2013

Hand-held electrical communication device and image processing method thereof

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Patent No.
US 8,390,664
App. No.
12/503,733
Granted
Mar 5, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hand-held electrical communication device including an image sensing unit, a mobile TV receiver, an image signal processing unit, a display unit and a baseband processing unit is provided. The image sensing unit generates an original image frame. The mobile TV receiver receives a compressed video data. The image signal processing unit adjusts the original image frame to be an adjusted image frame or decompresses the compressed video data into a video image frame, and respectively scales the adjusted image frame or the video image frame to be a scaled image frame. The baseband processing unit displays the scaled image frame on the display unit.

Claims (29)

1. A hand-held electrical communication device, comprising:

an image sensing unit used for generating an original image frame;

a mobile TV receiver used for receiving a compressed video data;

an image signal processing unit used for adjusting the original image frame into an adjusted image frame or decompressing the compressed video data into a video image frame, and scaling the adjusted image frame or the video image frame into a scaled image frame;

a display unit;

a baseband processing unit used for displaying the scaled image frame on the display unit;

a first bus; and

a second bus, wherein

the mobile TV receiver outputs the compressed video data to the image signal processing unit via the first bus, and the image signal processing unit outputs the scaled image frame to the baseband processing unit via the second bus;

the mobile TV receiver is further used for receiving a compressed audio data, the image signal processing unit decompresses the compressed audio data into an audio signal and outputs the audio signal to the baseband processing unit via an inter-IC sound (I2S) bus, and the baseband processing unit outputs the audio signal to an audio device;

the image signal processing unit includes:

a TV receiver interface used for receiving the compressed video data from the mobile TV receiver and the compressed audio data from the mobile TV receiver;

a video decoder used for decompressing the compressed video data into the video image frame;

an audio decoder used for decompressing the compressed audio data into the audio signal; and

an inter-IC sound transmitter used for outputting the audio signal to the baseband processing unit.

2. The hand-held electrical communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the first bus is a secure digital input/output (SDIO) bus or a serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus, the second bus is a Consultative Committee of International Radio (CCIR) parallel bus, a standard mobile image architecture (SMIA) serial bus or a mobile industry processor interface (MIPI) serial bus.

3. An image processing method of a hand-held electrical communication device, wherein the hand-held electrical communication device comprises an image sensing unit, a mobile TV receiver, an image signal processing unit, a display unit and a baseband processing unit, and the image signal processing unit comprises a TV receiver interface, a video decoder, an audio decoder and an inter-IC sound transmitter, the image processing method comprising:

utlizing the image sensing unit for generating an original image frame;

utlizing the mobile TV receiver for receiving a compressed video data;

utlizing the image signal processing unit for adjusting the original image frame into an adjusted image frame or decompressing the compressed video data into a video image frame, and scaling the adjusted image frame or the video image frame into a scaled image frame;

utlizing the baseband processing unit for displaying the scaled image frame on the display unit;

utlizing the mobile TV receiver for receiving a compressed audio data;

utlizing the image signal processing unit for decompressing the compressed audio data into an audio signal and utlizing the inter-IC sound transmitter of the image signal processing unit for outputting the audio signal to the baseband processing unit via an inter-IC sound bus;

utlizing the baseband processing unit for outputting the audio signal to an audio device;

utlizing the TV receiver interface for receiving the compressed video data from the mobile TV receiver and the compressed audio data from the mobile TV receiver;

utlizing the video decoder for decompressing the compressed video data into the video image frame; and

utlizing the audio decoder for decompressing the compressed audio data into the audio signal.

4. The image processing method of hand-held electrical communication device according to claim 3 , wherein the hand-held electrical communication device further comprises a first bus and a second bus, the compressed video data is outputted to the image signal processing unit from the mobile TV receiver via the first bus, and the scaled image frame is outputted to the baseband processing unit from the image signal processing unit via the second bus.

5. The image processing method of hand-held electrical communication device according to claim 4 , wherein the first bus is a secure digital input/output bus or a serial peripheral interface bus, and the second bus is a Consultative Committee of International Radio parallel bus, a standard mobile image architecture serial bus or a mobile industry processor interface serial bus.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 25, 2021
From: XIAMEN SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD.
To: SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Reel/Frame 057889/0055 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 16, 2019
From: SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY CORP.
To: XIAMEN SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Reel/Frame 049762/0321 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2018
From: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
To: SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY CORP.
Reel/Frame 044851/0187 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2016
From: ALPHA IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CORP.
To: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Reel/Frame 037401/0611 →