摘要:
A motion adaptive television signal processing system is disclosed. An image change estimator estimates the image change over an image time interval. A television signal processor adaptively processes the signal in response to a control signal. A control signal generator is coupled between the image change estimator and the adaptive television signal processor. The control signal generated exhibits a function substantially described by: K=Ae.sup.-b/x where K is the value of the control signal, A is the maximum value the control signal can attain, x is the estimated image change, and b is a constant. In a second embodiment, a second estimator estimates a parameter of the television signal. The relationship of the control signal to the estimated image change is varied as a function of the estimated parameter.
摘要:
In a composite color video signal, a portion of the signal spectrum is shared by high frequency vertical detail information, and high frequency modulated color difference (I) information. A circuit is described which determines whether the information in the shared frequency band is vertical detail information or color difference information without degradation in the presence of a step input signal, as, for example, in the presence of lettering in the image. A composite video signal is comb filtered to generate comb filtered chrominance and luminance signals. A baseband color difference signal is produced from the comb filtered chrominance signal and the presence of high frequency information in the baseband color difference signal is detected. The bandwidth of the low frequency portion of the comb filtered chrominance signal (i.e. the vertical detail information) which is restored to the comb filtered luminance signal is varied in response to the control signal.
摘要:
An adaptive filtering system is disclosed. The system is used in a digital television receiver to extract low frequency vertical detail information from a comb filtered chrominance signal. This system provides wide bandwidth vertical detail information when the amplitude of the chrominance component of the composite video signal is low and narrower bandwidth vertical detail signals as the amplitude of the chrominance component increases. Adaptive filtering is accomplished by passing the comb filtered chrominance signal through a first low-pass filter, developing two reduced amplitude replicas of the filtered signal which are mutually supplementary. The ratio of the amplitudes of these two replicas is variable with a control signal. One replica is passed through a second low-pass filter and combined with the other replica to produce a vertical detail signal. The embodiment of the system that is disclosed includes means for developing a control signal that is proportional to the instantaneous amplitude of the chrominance component of the composite video signal.
摘要:
A peaking circuit for use in a digital video signal processing system includes a digital peak detector which produces a peak magnitude whenever the slope of the video signal changes polarity. The peak magnitudes, and the absences of peaks are summed in an accumulator over a field period. The accumulated peaks are applied to a gain calculating circuit which develops a peaking control signal having three regimes. For low valued accumulated peaks the gain or peaking control signal is constant and relatively large. For high valued accumulated peaks the gain is constant and negative. In between the gain is in inverse porportion to the value of the accumulated peaks.
摘要:
Apparatus for passing digital pulses from a bilevel digital signal source having widths wider than a given minimum and narrower than a given maximum is described. A first duration sensitive signal gate is coupled to the signal source and passes only signals having widths wider than the given minimum duration. A second duration sensitive signal gate is also coupled to the signal source and passes only signals having widths equal to or wider than the given maximum duration. A signal selection means is coupled to the first and second duration sensitive signal gates, and passes pulses which have been passed by the first but not the second duration sensitive signal gate.
摘要:
A system for detecting overload conditions of a chrominance signal in which the chrominance signal is compared to a predetermined maximum desired amplitude value. Occurrences of the chrominance signal exceeding the predetermined amplitude are considered to be overload conditions only if the duration of the particular occurrence continues for an interval determined by the noise content of the chrominance signal. The average value of the chrominance signal over the internal is calculated to represent the overload signal.
摘要:
A digital television receiver which uses a line-locked clock signal employs chrominance signal demodulation circuitry which produces a digital oscillatory signal that is locked in phase to the color reference burst signal component of the incoming video signals. An analog voltage controlled oscillator generates an oscillatory signal having a frequency of approximately twice the color subcarrier frequency. This signal is combined with the composite video signals and the combined signal is digitized by an analog to digital converter. The digitized oscillatory signal is separated from the combined digital signal and is used to synchronize a digital phase locked loop. The digital phase locked loop generates two quadrature phase related signals having frequencies that are one-half the frequency of the analog oscillatory signal. These two signals are used to synchronously demodulate the chrominance signal components of the incoming video signals to obtain two quadrature phase related color difference signals. The control signal for the voltage controlled oscillator is generated by subtracting the burst phase of the demodulated color difference signals from a reference phase and integrating the difference.
摘要:
A motion detector for determining image motion in a video signal develops an array of signals representing the difference between pixels from adjacent frames. The array of signals are grouped into subarrays, each of which include the signal corresponding to the pixel under examination for motion. Each of the subarrays are independently examined to determine if the magnitude of all of the pixel differences represented in a particular subarray exceed a predetermined threshold and/or the pixel differences have like polarity. If these conditions are met in any one of the subarrays, a motion signal is produced.
摘要:
A TV receiver arranged to process video signals in PCM binary format includes a manual hue control circuit which operates on the PCM color mixture signals to effectively rotate the vector sum of the color mixture signals while maintaining the magnitude of the sum substantially constant. The magnitude of the received vector sum is calculated and the angle between the sum and one of the color mixture signal components is determined. Circuitry under user control increments or decrements the angle to rotate the vector sum. Corrected color mixture signals are then generated by multiplying the magnitude of the calculated vector sum by the sine and cosine of the incremented angle.
摘要:
A pair of differential amplifier stages are connected in cascade to form a multistage amplifier for signal amplification purposes. The base-emitter paths of current source transistors which establish the operating currents for the respective stages are connected in series across a common source of forward bias voltage. The collector-emitter path of an additional transistor is shunted across the base-emitter path of one of the current source transistors. As biasing of the additional transistor is varied, the distribution of gain between the respective cascaded stages is altered substantially without disturbance of the overall gain of the multistage amplifier.