Television – Image signal processing circuitry specific to television – Transition or edge sharpeners
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-16
2008-10-07
Natnael, Paulos M (Department: 2622)
Television
Image signal processing circuitry specific to television
Transition or edge sharpeners
C375S240290
Reexamination Certificate
active
07432986
ABSTRACT:
A video decoder comprising (i) a post-processing filter block, (ii) a comfort noise addition block and (iii) a video value/range adjustment block, where the comfort noise addition block is integrated into a video output path of the video decoder. The post-processing filter block may be configured to perform one or more of noise reduction, spatial filtering and temporal filtering on luminance data. The comfort noise addition block may be configured to add comfort noise to the luminance data. The video value/range adjustment block may be configured to adjust one or both of a value and a range of the luminance data.
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Christopher P. Maiorana PC
LSI Corporation
Natnael Paulos M
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