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Digital noise reducer

US4926361A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 16, 1988
Grant dateMay 15, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2008

Classification

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

Abstract

A digital noise reducer includes an addition circuit for adding a digital input video signal supplied at one input thereof and a signal supplied at the other input thereof and for outputting a resultant sum signal, a delay circuit for delaying the output signal of the addition circuit by an input unit period of the digital input video signal, a subtraction circuit supplied with the digital input video signal and an output signal of the delay circuit, the subtraction circuit forming and outputting a difference component signal for the digital input video signal and the output signal of the delay circuit, and a characteristic adjustment circuit for manipulating a signal characteristic of the difference component output of the subtraction circuit in accordance with the characteristic of the difference component signal outputted from the subtraction circuit and/or a characteristic of a digital output video signal outputted from the addition circuit and for outputting a resultant manipulated signal to the other input of the addition circuit.

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