Patent ID: 7030886

Claim:
A system for producing video signals, the system being communicatively coupled by electrical communication paths to a video graphics processor, a video signal input system, and a storage medium for storing data in electrical form, the system comprising: means for receiving a video signal; means for post-processing the received video signal, the post-processing means producing a post-processed video signal, wherein the post-processing means includes functionality for performing the following functions: region of interest selection; frame rate matching; spatial adaptation; changing the sample rate of the video signal being post processed; gamma removal; gamma insertion; color space conversion; changing frames of video data into interleaved fields of video data; and addressing on a frame by frame basis the video signal being post processed; and means for converting the post-processed video signal, the converting means producing a formatted video signal wherein: the converting means includes: a means for inserting ancillary data into the post-processed video signal; and a generator locking device; and the system is configured to receive the received video signal from the storage medium, the video graphics processor, and the video input system.