Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masaki Tokoi

Atsushi Ishizu

Yoshio Seki

Hideaki Kawamura

Kiyoshi Imai

Yoshio Watanabe

Yoichiro Miki

Isao Kawahara

Hidehiko Kawakami

Kazuo Tomida

Tomohisa Tagami

Hiroaki Fukushima

A method for displaying a moving picture having a proper tone by changing a combination of subfields constituting a field of the moving picture, the subfields each having a different weight of luminance, a motion vector indicating a moved direction of the image and a moved quantity thereof is detected from image data, new image data for providing a tone equivalent to a tone to be received by a retina to the retina when the image moves is generated corresponding to the detected motion vector, and the combination of subfields is determined based on the generated new image data.

Moving picture display method and apparatus

There is provided a low-cost scanning line converting circuit being capable of properly converting the number of scanning lines for a video signal at various conversion ratios. Under the control of a write control signal generating circuit, an original video signal is written, on a scanning-line basis, in individual line memories. A write operation is performed to each of the line memories based on a clock and a horizontal synchronizing signal on the input side, while a read operation is performed to each of the line memories based on a clock and a horizontal synchronizing signal on the output side. A selecting circuit selects, based on a line select signal, at least one from scanning line signals stored in the individual line memories necessary to generate a post-conversion scanning line signal and outputting the selected scanning line signal. Coefficient multipliers multiply the scanning line signal selectively outputted by interpolation coefficients (1&minus;k) and k and an adder adds up the results of multiplication to output the sum as the post-conversion scanning line signal. A coefficient control circuit and a dividing circuit are capable of generating a coefficient direct signal k in accordance with a ratio for converting the number of signal lines.

Scanning line converting circuit and interpolation coefficient generating circuit

A video signal conversion apparatus for converting high definition television signals band-width compressed by offset sub-sampling to a conventional standard television signal while removing aliasing interference caused by offset sub-sampling and using less memory capacity than is conventionally required is provided. The image of the sub-sampled signal is restored from the sampling points in the current field by an intra-field interpolation circuit, and the number of scan lines is reduced to the same number in the standard television signal format by a scan line number conversion circuit. Half of the pixels in the current field are then substituted into the signal for the one previous frame for inter-frame interpolation by a signal selector which alternately selects a signal from the scan line number conversion circuit and a signal from field memories, and a time-base operation for removing aliasing interference at the standard television signal rate is executed.

Video signal converting apparatus with reduced processing for aliasing

In a video signal processing apparatus for restoring a signal which has been bandwidth-compressed by offset sub-sampling after restoring an image from sample points of a same field of a sub-sampled signal, a first adder performs an inter-field averaging process from inter-field signals before or after three adjacent fields. A second adder performs an inter-frame averaging process from inter-frame signals. One field difference and one frame difference are detected from the three adjacent inter-field signals thereby switching an output signal of the first adder and an output signal of the second adder in accordance with the magnitudes of the differences thus detected. In this way, aliasing interferences accompanied with bandwidth compression can be detected. By selecting an optimum eliminating filter, aliasing interference due to interfield sub-sampling and aliasing interference due to inter-frame sub-sampling can be eliminated.

Video signal processing apparatus for reducing aliasing interference

A television signal converting apparatus receives a high definition television signal which is processed approximately linearly on the transmission and receiving sides and whose transmission only is processed non-linearly. A non-linear level correction circuit is provided, which collectively simultaneously carries out two kinds of non-linear processes, namely, a transmission inverse gamma correction and a CRT gamma correction, which are executed on the transmission side, thus precisely reproducing the signal level of a luminance signal by using a small-scale circuit.

HDTV to conventional TV signal converting apparatus with non-linear

A video signal converting apparatus includes: an interpolating circuit for interpolating a non-sampling point from sampling points in a field for restoring an HDTV band-compressed by offset sub-sampling; a first delay element for delaying the interpolated signal by one field period and a second delay element for delaying an output of the first delay element by one field; a median-value selector for selecting a median-value signal from signals in three adjacent fields from the input and output of the two delay elements, and an adder for averaging the output of the first delay element and an output of the median-value selector. Alternatively, the first and second delay elements maybe disposed before the interpolating circuit rather than after the interpolating circuit. Furthermore, a time-access conversion circuit maybe disposed either before the interpolating circuit or after the adder.

Video signal converting apparatus for converting HDTV signal into

A dot crawling interference elimination device and a color subcarrier vertical correlation detection device, which comprise a color subcarrier vertical correlation detection device for a video signal, an adaptive three-dimensional Y/C separation unit, and an adaptive notch filter of a color signal band, detect vertical correlation of a color subcarrier in a non-standard signal, such as a signal reproduced from a home VCRs or a special signal reproduced from an optical VDP system, that does not strictly meet the standards of the NTSC system or the system, thereby to discriminate non-standard characteristics of the signal, and eliminate a color signal component, which mixes into a luminance signal when a motion-adaptive Y/C separation is carried out for the non-standard signal, by using an adaptive notch filter that suits a non-standard state of the input image signal.

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Neyagawa, Japan

Masaki Tokoi