Nonlinear vertical bandwidth expansion of video signals

Details Nonlinear vertical bandwidth expansion of video signals Nonlinear vertical bandwidth expansion of video signals

1997-05-13

1999-08-17

Lee, Michael

Television

Image signal processing circuitry specific to television

Transition or edge sharpeners

348625, 348631, H04N 521

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active

059401419

ABSTRACT:
(1) The analog or digital components (such as RGB, Y/I/Q, Y/U/V, Y/R-Y/B-Y, Y/Cr/Cb, etc.) of a compatible standard-bandwidth 2-1 interlaced television signal, an analog signal, such as a standard NTSC or PAL television signal or a standard format digital signal, such as a digital representation of a standard NTSC or PAL television signal or a digital video signal in one of the 2:1 interlaced CCIR 601 hierarchical formats, is converted from interlaced to progressive scan, the progressive scan frame rate corresponding to the interlaced scan field rate and each progressively scanned frame having twice as many scan lines as in each interlaced field, the conversion often referred to as "line doubling;" (2) the line rate of the progressively scanned signal is increased by interpolation, including appropriate postfiltering (if the line rate of the progressively scanned signal is doubled, the overall effect is often referred to as "line quadrupling" or "line tripling" when the progressively scanned signal scan rate is multiplied by 1.5); and (3) the resulting signal is spectrally expanded in the vertical domain. Vertical bandwidth enhancement simulates a wide bandwidth vertical detail signal. The vertical detail signal is self-derived from the processed compatible signal itself.

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