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Carl W Walters

John W Richards

Raphael Samad

Clive Henry Gillard

Nicholas Ian Saunders

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Alan Hogg Turner

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Data to be processed is stored within data files 20. Associated with each data file 20 is a header file 18. The header files 18 store data specifying a wide range of attributes of the data within the data files 20. A user selects a particular signal processing function 14 that he desires to use and this then accesses one or mope selected data files 20 and associated header files 18. The selected signal processing tool 14 only needs a set of the attributes stored within the header files 18. The signal processing tool 14 reads those attributes it requires and then manipulates the data within the data file 20. The provision of this structure allows a wide range of signal processing function tools to be integrated into a single system which may also be simply expanded.

Apparatus and methods for designing, analyzing or simulating signal

Pairs of temporally adjacent input images are interpolated to produce motion compensated images using motion vectors generated from said but not all of the pairs of input images from which the output images are interpolated.

Motion compensated video signal processing

In, for example, a motion compensated video standards converter blocks in a first field or frame of a video signal are each compared with a plurality of blocks in the next succeeding field or frame of the video signal for deriving motion vectors representing the motion of the content of respective blocks between the first field or frame and the next field or frame, motion vectors are allocated to each pixel of each field or frame, the allocated motion vectors are checked to identify spurious motion vectors by comparing the allocated motion vectors with motion vectors allocated to adjacent pixels, and spurious motion vectors so identified are replaced by motion vectors allocated to adjacent pixels.

Motion dependent video signal processing

Apparatus for converting a video signal to a photographic film image comprises a television standards converter for deriving from an input video signal, which may be a high definition video signal, a motion compensated digital video signal corresponding to 24 progressive scan frames per second, a video signal recorder for recording the digital video signal, a digital-to-analog converter for converting the digital video signal after reproduction to an analog video signal corresponding to 24 progressive scan frames per second, and an electron beam recorder to which the analog video signal is applied to record the content of the analog video signal on photographic film.

Video signal to photographic film conversion

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