U.S. Philips Corporation

Anthony J Field

Atma Heerah

Thomas C Mackereth

An arrangement for processing video signals, the video signals having the form of digitally encoded samples and being arranged to produce a television picture by line and field sequential scanning includes a frame store, a write address generator and a read address generator. Input video samples are fed from an input to an interpolator for writing into the store. When a television picture is to be rotated and the rotation is effected by the sequence of write addresses to the store a situation can arise where there is no information available for writing into certain store locations. This results in holes appearing in the output signal where no picture related information is present. A hole detector is provided at the store output and controls an interpolator which inserts information derived from adjacent picture samples into the hole.

Method of and apparatus for processing video signals

A video signal processing arrangement for television signals encoded in digital form comprising means for compressing and/or expanding the size of the television picture represented by the video signal and means for rotating the television picture represented by the video signal is disclosed. The rotating means is separate from the compressing and/or expanding means and is switchable between a position prior to the compressing and/or expanding means in the video signal processing chain and a position subsequent to the compressing and/or expanding means. An arrangement having two separate video signal paths which are later combined to produce a composite picture is also described in which the rotating means can also be positioned after the combining means as well as before or after the compressing and/or expanding means in either path.

Video signal processing arrangement

An arrangement for rotating television pictures comprises a frame store into which a rotated input picture is written under the control of a write address generator which is in turn controlled by a rotation control and timing generator. A video input signal is applied at input and fed to a splitting circuit which produces streams of even and odd numbered samples, both at the sampling rate. These streams of samples are fed to an interpolator where they are used to generate samples to be written into the store. The store is split into four areas which are arranged to hold respectively field 1 odd samples, field 1 even samples, field 2 odd samples, and field 2 even samples. The write address generator is controlled so that samples from field 1 of the input signal are fed only into the areas of the store read by the read address generator during field 1 of the output signal and samples from field 2 of the input signal are fed only into the areas of the store read by the read address generator during field 2 of the output signal.

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Anthony J Field