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Color television signal processing apparatus

US4394680A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 1981
Grant dateJul 19, 1983
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/75
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A novel color television signal processing apparatus which is capable of producing a keying signal (soft key signal) with gradation usable for such signal processing as detecting portions with a specified color in a first composite color television signal and inserting a second color television signal in the detected portions, and is capable of processing line (encoded) and soft chromakey operations by producing a soft chromakey signal from a composite color image signal made by, e.g. NTSC system, and further enables efficient image mixing operations by sampling color television signals or using stored data of three color signal components and obtaining a keying signal with high precision in digital signal processing.

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