Patent ID: 11948519
Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A reception apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to:
receive groups of pictures from a video stream;
decode the groups of pictures to obtain image data of the groups of pictures; and
process the image data to determine a transition display period after a time of switching between a first and second groups of the groups of pictures and determines pixel statistical information, the switching is a channel switching,
wherein responsive to the pixel statistical information, first frames within the transition display period have a lower brightness than a brightness of second frames in the second group,, wherein the first frames and the second frames are not sequential frames in the video stream, and
wherein a normal display property is applied, specified according to control information included in the video stream, on the second frames for display, the transition display property is transitioned to the normal display property immediately after the transition display period.