Rca Inc.

Donald C Herrmann

Lucas J Bazin

A remotely controlled chroma key soft edger is described for use with an analog switcher. The keying signal is a low passed filtered and differentially summed with substantially an unfiltered keying signal and the resultant high frequency components are summed with the low pass filtered signal. The gain of the peaking signal is remotely controlled to adjust the summed rise time of the keying signal.

Low-pass filter with remotely controllable rise time

A remotely controlled chroma keyer is provided which is responsive to the red, green and blue signals from a video source such as a color camera for providing color difference signals. A signal processing system using quadrant multipliers is used for summing and differencing these color difference signals which when applied to a non-additive mixer select a particular color. The color selection is determined by control voltages applied to the multipliers.

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Hartsville, PA, United States of America

Donald C Herrmann