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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1982

Filed:

Aug. 01, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:

Richard Storey, Sutton, GB;

Alan Roberts, Tadworth, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358105 ; 340583 ;
Abstract

A movement detector for television signals measures the difference between maximum and minimum values of the movement components of a picture difference signal over a chosen interval. A television signal at an input (12) is delayed in a picture delay (2), and the delayed and undelayed signals subtracted in a subtractor (1) to form a picture difference signal. This is rectified in rectifier (3) and smoothed in a filter (4). A maximum detector (6) and a minimum detector (7) are coupled to the filter output and are re-set at prescribed intervals. A subtractor (8) determines the difference between the output of detectors (6) and (7) and this is compared with a reference value in a comparator (9), the output of which is sampled and stored in a store (10).


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