Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Naoki Mazda

Seiichi Tanaka

Masatoshi Sumiyoshi

Ken Itou

Kazumasa Ikeda

Hitoshi Kawabata

A video signal processor, having an input receiving unit for selectively receiving either of a baseband video signal and a composite video signal are selectively input as an input video signal thereto, a H delay unit for delaying the selected input video signal by one line period ( H), an inter-line non-correlation component extractor for extracting inter-line non-correlation components between the input video signal and the H delay signal from the H delay unit, an inter-frame non-correlation component remover for removing inter-frame non-correlation components from the selected input video signal, a first subtractor responsive to the selection of the baseband video signal for subtracting the inter-line non-correlation component from the baseband video signal processed the inter-frame non-correlation component removal at the inter-frame non-correlation component removing means to result noise-reduced baseband video signals, a second subtractor responsive to the selection of the composite video signal the inter-line non-correlation component from the input composite video signal to result a first luminance signal, and a mixer for mixing a second luminance signal resulted from the inter-frame non-correlation component removal at the inter-frame non-correlation component remover with the first luminance signal from the second subtractor at a ratio defined by a motion signal to result a motion-adaptively processed luminance signal.

Video signal processor

When an anomaly occurred in an optical system or light sources of a rear projection TV in which laser beams are employed as a light source, the anomaly is detected by sensors, the detected anomaly is transmitted to a microcomputer, and according to a signal from the microcomputer a laser light source control portion controls the laser beams from the laser light sources so as to stop or decrease generation of the laser beams. Thereby, danger is prevented in advance from being afflicted on a viewer.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Naoki Mazda