Television – Image signal processing circuitry specific to television – Noise or undesired signal reduction
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-04
2005-01-04
Yenke, Brian P. (Department: 2614)
Television
Image signal processing circuitry specific to television
Noise or undesired signal reduction
C348S441000, C348S448000, C348S452000, C348S458000, C348S558000, C348S700000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06839094
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for detecting and correcting motion artifacts in interlaced video signal converted for progressive video display. A correction is applied where interlaced video material is determined to originate from film source, thereby having been converted to video using a process known as 3-2 pulldown. Where the video material is not a result of the 3-2 pulldown process, a check is made for the presence of “pixel motion” so that corrections may be applied to smooth out the pixel motion. To determine 3-2 pulldown or field motion, a video field is compared to the field prior to the previous field to generate field error. Field errors are generated for five consecutive fields and a local minimum error repeated every five fields indicate the origination of the video material from film source using the 3-2 pulldown process. Upon confirmation of 3-2 pulldown, the video material is modified to correct for the mixing of two film frames into one interlaced video frame by assuring that the two fields of the de-interlaced video frame contain data from the same film frame. Where the video material did not originate from a film source, but pixel motion is detected, the pixel motion is smoothed out by an averaging method. The odd and even fields of the resulting video data are subsequently combined to form a progressive video material.
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Tang Che Wing
Truong Dung Duc
RGB Systems, Inc.
The Hecker Law Group, PLC
Yenke Brian P.
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