Controlling the combining of video signals

Details Controlling the combining of video signals Controlling the combining of video signals

1990-01-24

1991-09-03

Peng, John K.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Specific signal processing circuitry

358 22, 340734, H04N 5262, H04N 974

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050461656

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for controlling the combining of video signals includes a field rate microprocessor (10) that generaes edge data defining the edges of a polygonal first picture (KP) which is to be keyed into a second picture (B) to produce a composite picture. Two line rate microprocessors (16, 18) generate from the edge data, for each horizontal scanning line of the composite picture in which a row of pixels corresponding to that scanning line is intersected by edges of the first picture, signals representing: the horizontal locations of first and second start pixels, namely those of the row of pixels in which first and second edges (e.g. Eb, E2), respectively, of the first picture (KP) start to intersect the row; the gradients of the first and second edges; and a key value (the proportion of the first picture to be contained in a pixel of the composite picture) for each of the first and second start pixels. A key value generator (32) generates, for each scanning line of the composite picture, a key value for each successive one of the row of pixels corresponding thereto, by: ramping up the key value from zero, for pixels preceding the first start pixel, by incrementing the key value for the first start pixel, for pixels following the first start pixel, by an amount per pixel determined by the gradient of the first edge (e.g. E1), until the key vaue reaches unity; and ramping down the key value from unity, by decrementing the key value for the second start pixel, for pixels following the second start pixel, by an amount per pixel determined by the gradient of the second edge (e.g. E2), until the key value reaches zero.

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