摘要:
In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter wherein blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the following succeeding field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors representing the motion of the content of respective blocks between the first field or frame and the following field or frame, and wherein a respective correlation surface is generated for blocks in the first field or frame, the correlation surface representing the difference between the content of the block in the first field or frame and the content of each block in the following field or frame with which it has been compared, the shape of that part of the correlation surface which represents differences less than a threshold level is determined, and the comparison is varied in dependence on the shape.
摘要:
Apparatus for converting a video signal to a photographic film image comprises a television standards converter for deriving from an input video signal, which may be a high definition video signal, a motion compensated digital video signal corresponding to 24 progressive scan frames per second, a video signal recorder for recording the digital video signal, a digital-to-analog converter for converting the digital video signal after reproduction to an analog video signal corresponding to 24 progressive scan frames per second, and an electron beam recorder to which the analog video signal is applied to record the content of the analog video signal on photographic film.
摘要:
In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter wherein blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the following succeeding field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors representing the motion of the contact of respective blocks between the first field or frame and the following field or frame, and wherein a correlation surface is generated for each block in the first field or frame, the correlation surface representing the difference between the content of the block in the first field or frame and the content of each block in the following field or frame with which it has been compared, the magnitudes of the differences represented by the correlation surface are weighted if a preliminary determination of the correlation surface fails to reveal a clear minimum difference.
摘要:
A television standards converter comprises a motion analyzer for analyzing the motion between consecutive fields of an input television signal of one television standard and for deriving motion vectors in dependence on the motion, a filter for recursively filtering the motion vectors, and an interpolator for aligning the fields in dependence on the filtered motion vectors so as effectively to represent static pictures, and means to effect conversion using the static pictures to derive the required output television signal of a different television standard.
摘要:
In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter wherein blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the following field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors representing the motion of the content of respective blocks between the first field or frame and the following field or frame, further motion vectors are selected for assignment to those of the blocks for which less than a predetermined plurality of good motion vectors are derived as a result of the comparison, by ranking all the good, non-stationary motion vectors derived for the field or frame in order of frequency of occurrence, and selecting those motion vectors which occur most frequently, unless they fall within a predetermined window of pixel motion of a motion vector already selected.
摘要:
In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter wherein blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the next succeeding field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors representing the motion of the content of respective blocks between the first field or frame and the next field or frame, the blocks adjacent to a border region of the field or frame are assigned motion vectors selected from the motion vectors which have been derived for those of the blocks which are adjacent to the block under consideration and are not in the border region.
摘要:
A system for integrating film material with a digital video signal employs a film scanner to produce a digital video signal from the source film, and a post production system for combining with that signal the input digital video signal. Motion interpolated temporal compensation is employed at stages of frame rate conversion.
摘要:
Data formatting apparatus for formatting variable bit length data words into successive fixed bit length data words comprises an N-bit circular buffer comprising a plurality of concatenated buffer sections, each buffer section having the same bit length as one of the fixed bit length data words. A modulo-N counter generates a count of the cumulative length of received variable bit length data words. Each received variable bit length data word is stored in the N-bit circular buffer at a bit position dependent on the count signal, and, in response to a detection that data has been stored in all of the bits of that buffer section, the stored data from that buffer section is output as a fixed bit length data word.
摘要:
A serial data decoder is described employing a bank of parallel primary Huffman decoders 70 each operating to decode a stream of variable length code words with embedded control code words into a stream of fixed length index values. The fixed length index values are fed to a secondary decoder which operates under control of the fixed length index values representing control code words to decode the fixed length index values representing the variable length code words into output data.
摘要:
A motion compensated interpolator for digital television images comprises a three-dimensional variable separable finite impulse response interpolation filter operating in the horizontal, vertical and temporal domains.