摘要:
A video signal recording system is disclosed which includes a circuit for generating a control signal representative of the level of the high-frequency portion of a full-bandwidth luminance signal. An adaptive deemphasis circuit reduces the level of the high-frequency portion of the luminance signal in response to the control signal. A folding circuit folds the high-frequency portion of the deemphasized luminance signal into the low-frequency portion. The folded deemphasized luminance is combined with the control signal and recorded on the video tape. A video signal playback system is disclosed which includes a circuit for separating the previously recorded control signal from the previously recorded folded deemphasized luminance signal. An unfolding circuit unfolds the played back luminance signal to produce a wide bandwidth deemphasized luminance signal. An adaptive reemphasis circuit boosts the level of the high-frequency portion of the unfolded luminance signal in response to the separated control signal.
摘要:
A television signal having a luminance spectrum extending from zero to f.sub.h in horizontal spatial frequencies and from zero to f.sub.v in vertical spatial frequencies is recorded on a video tape. A folded-spectrum signal is generated for recording by modulating the luminance signal onto a folding carrier of (f.sub.h /2, f.sub.v /2) complex spatial frequency. This is done by heterodyning the luminance signal with a folding carrier wave and then selecting as said folded-spectrum signal only the baseband portion of the resulting signal. At least when there is change between successive television images, the luminance signal is pre-filtered by a low-pass spatial filter that separates the two-dimensional image spectral domain into a pass band region and into an attenuation band region. Each point in the passed region has a corresponding mirror point in the attenuated region as mirrored about a complex spatial frequency (f.sub.h /4, f.sub.v /4) in both horizontal and vertical directions. During subsequent playback the folded-spectrum signal recovered from the tape is unfolded by heterodyning it with the folding carrier wave and selecting only the baseband portion of the resulting signal. At least when there is change between successive television images, the unfolded-spectrum signal is passed through a low-pass spatial reconstruction filter similar to that used as a recording pre-filter, and accompanying aliases are attenuated by the reconstruction filter.
摘要:
Apparatus is disclosed for processing video information which is reproduced from a magnetic recording medium in a video cassette recorder. The luminance portion of the video signal, which is "folded" about a sampling frequency carrier before recording on magnetic tape, is unfolded after being read from the magnetic tape to restore the bandwidth of the signal, and is applied in parallel through horizontal and vertical comb filters. The combined output of the horizontal comb filter and the vertical comb filter may include incompletely cancelled horizontal and vertical components of the folding frequency and sidebands due to the effects of picture contents. An edge detector receptive to the unfolded video signal responds to an encountered brightness edge, and generates a signal which varies the proportions of the video outputs of the horizontal and vertical comb filters in the combined output.