摘要:
An adaptive comb filter employs vertical and horizontal edge detectors to selectively activate a vertical high-pass filter and a horizontal band-pass filter during the occurrence of vertical and horizontal edges in a received television signal, for use in the chrominance/luminance separation process. Artifacts such as "hanging dots" and "crawling dots", inherent in prior art comb filter circuits during the occurrence of vertical and horizontal edges in the composite television signal, are greatly reduced in the process.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for introducing a pan and scan feature to a multiple-signal high definition television (HDTV) system, so that a compatible signal received by a standard TV receiver may be a panned version of a wide aspect ratio HDTV signal, and so that high quality recombination of the compatible and augmenting signals by an HDTV receiver is possible. A pan and scan data word representing the relative movement of the compatible portion of the HDTV signal is inserted during the vertical blanking period of each frame of the HDTV signal, for causing panning synchronization between an HDTV transmitter and an HDTV receiver. The pan and scan data word corresponds to the beginning read address of a fixed coefficient memory containing video attenuation coefficients, which determine the degree of signal attenuation, to be applied at each pixel location along an HDTV scan line. The coefficient memory is addressed in a wrap-around manner, so that if the starting address in the read cycle is other than zero, the reading continues until the highest address in the memory is reached, and then address zero et seq. are read on up to the address before the starting address. By changing the points of passage, attenuation and suppression along scan lines, panning occurs.
摘要:
A high definition television signal with a sequential scan with the standard number of lines per frame and double the frame frequency is processed to generate a single MAC line having a duration substantially equal to that of four sequential lines of standard duration. Each MAC line has two luminance components having different compression ratios. For the remaining two lines, compressed line difference signals are transmitted, thereby allowing reconstruction of all luminance lines at the receiver. Each MAC line further has a U chrominance component and a V chrominance component, alternatively compressed 1:4 and 1:2. The remaining parts of each MAC line are taken up by data signals and audio as well as the necessary clamping. The luminance and chrominance signals are prefiltered to prevent artifacts. The filtering is geared to the visual characteristics of the human visual system, i.e. diagonal spatial frequencies are subjected to more filtering then either purely horizontal or purely vertical spatial frequencies.
摘要:
For a wide aspect ratio display, the main panel component and augmentation panel component at the transmitting end into which the horizontal line signals of hte source were decomposed are reconstituted at the receiving end by joining the previously separated components together at stitch points. In order to decrease the visibility of the stitch points in the reconstituted wide aspect ratio display, the location of the stitch point in each line is varied. The variation may be on a frame-to-frame bais or on aline-to-line basis. The latter is the preferred form, the line-to-line variation being, preferably, a random variation.
摘要:
An adaptive comb filter employs vertical and horizontal edge detectors to selectively activate a vertical high-pass filter and a horizontal band-pass filter during the occurrence of vertical and horizontal edges in a received television signal, for use in the chrominance/luminance separation process. Artifacts such as "hanging dots" and "crawling dots", inherent in prior art comb filter circuits during the occurrence of vertical and horizontal edges in the composite television signal, are greatly reduced in the process.
摘要:
A high definition television system to provide an efficient use of bandwidths, derives from a high definition television source signal, composite main signals and composite line differential signals. These signals are divided into main center components and main panel components and line differential center components and line differential panel components. The line differential center components and main center components are then quadrature modulated and transmitted as a vestigial sideband signal over a first transmission path. The main panel components and the line differential panel components are quadrature modulated and formed into a vestigial sideband signal which is then time multiplexed with the high frequency luminance signal forming a time multiplexed signal. The time multiplexed signal is then frequency multiplexed with a digital sound and synchronization signal in order to form an augmentation signal which is transmitted over a portion of a second transmission path.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for generating and receiving a high definition television signal suitable for use in a broadcasting environment wherein a conventional television signal is also used, having multiple frequency multiplexed subcarriers placed within the frequency spectrum of the signal so as to minimize interference with and from the conventional television signal.
摘要:
A system for generating high definition television signals. An augmentation signal is provided for supporting the transmission of additional panel information, increasing the aspect ratio of an NTSC compatible main television signal component. Line differential information, as well as high frequency luminance and high frequency chrominance are transmitted in the augmentation signal super line time interval without frequency interleaving components. The high definition augmentation signal is derived by subsampling the high definition image produced by an HDTV source along the diagonal direction of its two dimensional frequency spectrum. The horizontal frequency bandwidth of the HDTV image is perserved without an objectionable loss of resolution to the human visual system.
摘要:
A method and system for synchronizing signals. First and second signals are sent (compressed or uncompressed) from a source to a receiving apparatus of a receiving system. The first signal has content of a first modality (e.g., audio) and the second signal has content of a second modality (e.g., video). The first and second signals are to be displayed on a display apparatus of the receiving system. The first and second signals have been time-synchronized at the source. If the first and second signals are not synchronized in time when received at the receiving apparatus, then the first and second signals may be time-synchronized at the receiving apparatus either manually or through timestamping of both signals at the source, in conjunction with use of a real-time clock at the receiving apparatus.
摘要:
A pixelated image display system comprising: a first panel including an array of pixel elements, each pixel element partially masked by an opaque region; one or more additional panels, each additional panel including an array of pixel elements, each pixel element partially masked by an opaque region; means for directing a different subset of pixel data from an image dataset to each the panel to control the pixel elements of each panel; and means for aligning and projecting interleaved pixel elements, in at least one of the horizontal and vertical directions, from each panel onto a screen to form a pixelated image.