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Upsampling filter for a down conversion system

US6618443B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 9, 1998
Grant dateSep 9, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 9, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/90
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An HDTV down conversion system including apparatus for forming a set of low resolution down-sampled pixel values corresponding to a current frame of a video signal from a set of low resolution pixel values corresponding to a residual image of a current frame of the video signal and from a set of down-sampled low resolution pixel values corresponding to reference frames of the video signal. The apparatus includes a memory for storing the set of down-sampled low resolution pixel values. An up-sampling processor receives from the memory and uses Lagrangian interpolation to convert the set of down-sampled low resolution pixel values corresponding to the reference frame of the video signal into a set of up-sampled low resolution pixel values corresponding to the reference frame of the video signal. A summing processor adds the set of low resolution pixel values corresponding to the residual image of the current frame of the video signal to the set of up-sampled low resolution pixel values corresponding to the reference frame of the video signal to form a set of low resolution pixel values corresponding to the current frame of the video signal. A decimating processor deletes selected one…

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