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Digital prefiltering of encoded video signals

US4951129A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 9, 1989
Grant dateAug 21, 1990
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Expiry dateJan 9, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/646
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Digital prefiltering of luminance and chrominance components for an encoded video signal is performed to prevent cross color and dot crawl errors when the encoded video signal is decoded. The luminance component is filtered using a two- or three-dimensional chrominance bandpass filter to generate luminance correction limiting values corresponding to cross color errors that would occur when a conventionally encoded video signal is decoded. The luminance component also is filtered individually in each dimension, horizontally, vertically and/or temporally, to obtain luminance dimensional correction values. From the luminance correction limiting values and corresponding luminance dimensional correction values, luminance correction values are obtained by a two step decision process. The luminance correction values are added to the luminance component to provide the prefiltered luminance component. In like manner chrominance correction limiting values and chrominance dimensional correction values are generated and used to obtain chrominance correction values that are added to the chrominance component to provide the prefiltered chrominance component. The prefiltered components are combin…

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