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Pseudo interlacing in digital video

US5850264A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 19, 1995
Grant dateDec 15, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 19, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/587
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Sequential digital video frames are divided into two interleaved fields comprising even-numbered horizontal lines of pixels and odd-numbered lines horizontal lines of pixels respectively. The "even" field of a first standard frame is combined with the "odd" field of a second standard frame to form a first pseudo-interlaced frame of data for display; then the same odd field is combined with the even field of a third standard frame to form a second pseudo-interlaced frame of data for display, and so on throughout a continuing digital-video message. The data transmission rate needed is thus reduced by nearly a factor of two, or conversely, for a given data rate, nearly twice as much video information can be transmitted in the same time interval.

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