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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1986
Robert F Casey, Burgen County, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
An interlaced video input signal is applied to a speed-up unit which time compresses and interleaves lines of the input signal with lines of a further signal derived therefrom for display in progressive scan fashion on a display device. The further signal is generated by circuitry which derives line-interpolated, field-delayed and vertical detail signals from the input signal. Selection circuitry selects the field delayed signal for display when the detail signal is above a threshold level and the field-delayed signal is concurrently within a range bounded by the input signal and the line-delayed signal, the interpolated signal being selected for display otherwise to thereby provide a progressive scan display having relatively high vertical detail characteristic of interfield processing and immunity to motion artifacts characteristic of intra-field processing. Noise due to quantizing errors or poor input signal-to-noise conditions is further reduced by range extension circuitry which increases the selection range beyond the values bounded by the input and line-delayed signals for selection of the field-delayed signal.