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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1985
Leopold A Harwood, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Robert A Wargo, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Chandrakant B Patel, Hopewell, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a composite color video signal, a portion of the signal spectrum is shared by high frequency vertical detail information, and high frequency modulated color difference (I) information. A circuit is described which determines whether the information in the shared frequency band is vertical detail information or color difference information without degradation in the presence of a step input signal, as, for example, in the presence of lettering in the image. A composite video signal is comb filtered to generate comb filtered chrominance and luminance signals. A baseband color difference signal is produced from the comb filtered chrominance signal and the presence of high frequency information in the baseband color difference signal is detected. The bandwidth of the low frequency portion of the comb filtered chrominance signal (i.e. the vertical detail information) which is restored to the comb filtered luminance signal is varied in response to the control signal.