Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Yoshimura

Nobuo Murata

Kunio Yamauchi

Kenji Saito

A digital video signal processing device for clipping a digital video signal to keep the signal at a predetermined level, includes an interpolation data signal generating unit for predicting video signal levels between adjacent sampling points for generating an interpolation data signal, clipping units for clipping the sampled video signal and the interpolation data signal at their levels, and a synthesizing unit for performing a predictive coding operation with respect to at least any one of the clipped video signal and the interpolation data signal and synthesizing these signals with each other.

Digital video signal processing device and TV camera device arranged to

An automatic iris adjustment system comprises a camera lens including an iris driving means for controlling the iris value; an image pickup element for converting the amount of light incident to the camera lens into an electrical signal; means for comparing the iris adjustment signal voltage V.sub.I from the image pickup element with the reference voltage V.sub.O to evaluate an error voltage V.sub.E (i.e., V.sub.E =V.sub.I -V.sub.O); means for calculating a varying component .DELTA.IRIS of iris control value as a predetermined function of the error voltage V.sub.E ; means for calculating an iris control value IRIS.sub.n basing on the calculated varying component .DELTA.IRIS of iris control value; and means for controlling the iris driving means in response to the calculated iris control value IRIS.sub.n.

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Hachioji, Japan

Yasuo Yoshimura