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Picture information converting apparatus, picture information converting method, and television receiver

US6483546B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 1999
Grant dateNov 19, 2002
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/0135
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A picture information converting apparatus for generating an output picture signal with a different scanning line structure from an input picture signal is disclosed, that comprises a first picture data selecting means for selecting adjacent pixels with a predetermined relation of positions to a plurality of considered points with a different relation of positions to scanning lines of the input picture signal, a spatial class detecting means for detecting a pattern of a level distribution from picture data selected by said first picture data selecting means and determining spacial class values that represent spatial classes of the considered points corresponding to the detected pattern, a second picture data selecting means for selecting the considered points and adjacent pixels with the predetermined relation of positions to the considered points from the input picture signal, a calculating process means for performing a calculating process for predicting and generating pixels at positions with a predetermined relation of positions to the considered points corresponding to the picture data obtained by said second picture data selecting means, a storing means for storing predetermi…

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