Facsimile and static presentation processing – Natural color facsimile – Color correction
Patent
1993-10-12
1997-07-08
Coles, Sr., Edward L.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Natural color facsimile
Color correction
358539, 358522, 358523, H04N 146
Patent
active
056467508
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for compressing video in a manner characteristic of photographic film compression. One embodiment of the invention is a video camera including circuitry for compressing the raw video signals generated thereby to introduce film-like compression characteristics thereto. Such video camera preferably includes controls allowing smooth, gradual, film-like compression of video image data recorded thereby, in response to user variation of no more than a small number of compression parameters. In other embodiments, the invention is a video post-production editing system which performs film-like compression on an analog or digital video signal. Such compression can be performed to match the dynamic range of a first, film-derived video segment to that of a second, non-film-derived video segment. Preferably, the invention implements film-like compression digitally, by employing digital circuitry. Typically, such digital circuitry digitizes an analog video signal to be compressed, then transforms the digitized pixels using a look-up table, and finally converts the transformed pixels to an analog compressed video signal. Each color component of a color video signal can be separately digitized, and digital compression can be separately performed on each stream of digitized color component data in accordance with the invention. Other embodiments (for processing a stream of digital video data) need not perform analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog conversion. The invention can alternatively be implemented as an analog circuit for processing an analog video signal.
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Coles Sr. Edward L.
Grant II Jerome
Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics Inc.
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