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Video picture improving apparatus and method

US6151018A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 14, 1998
Grant dateNov 21, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 14, 2018

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

Abstract

An apparatus, method and system for improving or otherwise affecting the picture produced from a video signal. The apparatus preferably includes a video signal receiver, a circuit that decodes picture parameter correction information from a received video signal, and a circuit that processes a received video signal based on decoded picture parameter correction information. The correction information is preferably located in the vertical blanking interval of the received video signal. The method includes encoding picture parameter correction information into a vertical blanking interval of a video signal.

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