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System for reducing the visibility of the noise in television pictures

US4361853A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 31, 1979
Grant dateNov 30, 1982
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Expiry dateDec 31, 1999

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N5/21
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A television signal noise reduction system employs a movement detector for automatically selecting one of three parallel processing paths, the first of which passes the video signal without modification and the other two of which calculate different weighted averages of the current pixel and surrounding pixels from the current frame and the previous frame.

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