摘要:
Image processing apparatus is described for filtering a digital representation of a raster scanned image into a plurality of sub-bands in the two-dimensional spatial frequency domain, the resolution of the raster scanned image in a first direction (usually the horizontal direction) being greater than the resolution of the raster scanned image in a second direction (usually the vertical direction). The image processing apparatus has a decimation filter means comprising a number of multi-tap digital decimation filters for spatial filtering in the first and second directions. The mean of the filter lengths of the filters used for filtering in the first direction is greater than that of the filters used for filtering in the second direction. Complementary interpolation apparatus for reconstructing the image from the plurality of sub-bands is also described.
摘要:
A digital video tape recording/playback system having a plurality of recording heads (A, B, C, D) on a rotating head mechanism 94 for recording slanting tracks 108 which extend diagonally across a tape 82 provides processing of video signals in a plurality of data processing channels with selective connection of the data processing channels to the recording heads such that data from a plurality of data processing channels are stored in respective portions of a slanting track (A+/A-; B+/B-; C+/C-; D+/D-). The data in each data processing channel and recorded in each track portion is sampled with a substantially even distribution over a field of video signals to provide for effective concealment of recording/playback errors. Preferably, two data processing channels are recorded on each track, the respective portions being located in upper and lower portions of the tape, respectively.
摘要翻译:一种在旋转磁头机构94上具有多个记录头(A,B,C,D)的数字录像带记录/重放系统,用于记录沿着磁带82斜对角延伸的倾斜磁道108, 数据处理通道,数据处理通道选择性地连接到记录头,使得来自多个数据处理通道的数据被存储在倾斜磁道的相应部分(A + / A-; B + / B-; C + / C-; D + / D-)。 每个数据处理通道中记录在每个磁道部分中的数据在视频信号的场上以基本均匀的分布进行采样,以提供有效的隐藏记录/重放错误。 优选地,在每个轨道上记录两个数据处理通道,各个部分分别位于磁带的上部和下部。
摘要:
A sub-band filter system in which the frequency separated data is multiplexed together at the output of each filter stage. The stream of multiplexed data produced can have a block-by-block format or a sample-by-sample format. In the latter case, the filtering can be effected by a finite impulse response filter with switchable tap coefficients for effecting both decimation and high and low pass filtering.
摘要:
Apparatus for storing a video signal includes a signal compression arrangement constituted by a spatial two-dimensional sub-band filtering arrangement that filters a digital video signal to form data sets constituting respective sub-bands of the two-dimensional spatial frequency domain, a quantizer that quantizes the data sets in accordance with respective values which are such that the amount of quantization of one of the data sets constituting a sub-band to which dc luminance information of the signal is at least predominantly confined is less than the average of the amounts of quantization of the remaining data sets, and an entropy encoder that selectively encodes at least some of the quantized data sets so that the quantized data sets, as selectively entropy encoded, form a compressed video signal. The signal compression arrangement is followed by a storage arrangement for storing the compressed video signal.
摘要:
To enable a digital composite color video signal (NTSC or PAL) to be compressed directly, that is without dividing it into its components and compressing the components separately, the digital composite color video signal is decorrelated, for example by spatial sub-band filtering, to form data sets, for example sub-bands, representing dc luminance information, ac luminance information and dc chrominance information. The data sets are then quantized in accordance with respective quantization values from a quantization matrix, those quantization values being such that the amount of quantization of each of some of the data sets to which the dc luminance information and the dc chrominance information is at least predominantly confined is less than the average of the amounts of quantization of the remaining data sets. At least some of the quantized data sets are then entropy encoded.
摘要:
Apparatus for decoding an input digital signal by replacing successive n-bit groups of the input digital signal with respective ones from an ensemble of m-bit data words, each m-bit data word having an associated n-bit code word, where n is greater than m, comprises: means for determining the Hamming distance between an n-bit group of the input digital signal and each of the n-bit code words associated with the ensemble of m-bit data words; and means for replacing that n-bit group of the input digital signal with an m-bit data word from the ensemble of m-bit data words for which the Hamming distance between the n-bit code word associated with that m-bit data word and that n-bit group is the lowest.
摘要:
A video memory comprises a video store for storing video data comprising a plurality of input video data blocks, each input video data block comprising a plurality of pixel data words and one or more ancillary data words associated with that input video data block. The video memory allows the stored pixel data words to be read out, along with their associated ancillary data word(s), in a transposed order and comprises means for reading the ancillary data words associated with a predetermined sequence of input video data blocks into a recirculating output buffer, and serial reading means for reading successive output video data blocks from the video store, each output video data block comprising pixel data words from the predetermined sequence of the input video data blocks, the serial reading means and the recirculating output buffer being operable to output concurrently each pixel data word in each output video data block with its associated ancillary data word(s).
摘要:
A television standards converter for converting an input digital video signal from one television standard to another, comprises a high-pass filter (36) for filtering the input video signal horizontally and vertically, a plurality of parallel processing channels comprising respective circuits (43 to 58) for determining pixel by pixel of the high-pass filtered video signal the correlation magnitudes for a range of horizontal and vertical pixel offsets, respective low-pass filters (59) for filtering the resulting correlation magnitudes, subtracters (55 to 58) for subtracting from each correlation magnitude in the range the correlation magnitude corresponding to zero pixel offset, a selector (62) for determining for each pixel of said video signal the motion vector corresponding to the maximum correlation magnitude, and a temporal interpolator (FIG. 14) for deriving interpolated fields or frames by combining sample values offset by the motion vectors.
摘要:
Apparatus for concealing errors in a digital television signal comprises delay elements for deriving a current sample value and a first group of the sample values spatially closest to the current sample value in the same frame of the television signal and delay elements for deriving from the preceding frame of the television signal a delayed sample value corresponding in position to the current sample value and a second group of sample values respectively corresponding in position to the sample values. The current sample value and the delayed sample value are checked for error, and subtractors check pairs of sample values corresponding in position in the current and preceding frames of the television signal for error, derive a measure of the difference in the levels of the sample values in each pair, and combine the results of these checks to provide an output signal which is a measure of the number of the errors and of the sum of the differences. A threshold device checks the output signal against a predetermined threshold level corresponding to an acceptably small number of errors and a relative low degree of movement in the part of a television picture corresponding to the groups of sample values, and a selector is operative, if the sample value is in error, the delayed sample value in not in error, and the output signal is below the predetermined level, to replace the current sample value by the delayed sample value for supply to an output, and, in all other cases, to supply the current sample value to the output.
摘要:
A method of correcting errors in binary data which may represent a digital television signal, comprises dividing the data into a plurality of first blocks, each first block comprising a first plurality of, say sixty, data words and a second plurality of, say six, check words, and further deriving a parity check block for a plurality of the first blocks. Each check word is derived in dependence on all the data words in the first block and each other check word in the first block. One check word may be derived by modulo-2 addition and the remaining check words may be derived by respective primitive polynomial generators.