Patent 7583274 was granted and assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus for controlling the format of a video display. The apparatus includes a profile module for defining at least one profile. The profile has at least one display characteristic of video information associated with a type of application. The apparatus also includes a runtime engine in communication with the profile module. The runtime engine accepts the video information, modifies the video information according to the profile, and outputs the modified video information.