Letterbox image detection apparatus
US6208385A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 17, 1997 |
| Grant date | Mar 27, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 17, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S348/913
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A letterbox image detection apparatus for detecting a letterbox image by detecting a boundary of an image area and a non-image area, so as to display the image area on a full screen according to the detection result but not to display the non-image area. The apparatus includes timing pulse generator for generating a timing pulse for splitting one screen image into N columns (N is an integer of 2 or more), image property calculator for calculating the image property of the N horizontal sections (hereinafter referred to as columns) split by the timing pulse generator, inter-line difference calculator for calculating the inter-line difference of the N image properties, edge detector for comparing the inter-line difference with a predetermined upper first threshold th1 and for detecting the edge, and edge position data holder for holding the vertical position data of the in-column edge detected by the edge determinator.
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