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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1987
John M Keith, Washington Crossing, PA (US);
Technology, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A processor which expands a compressed video signal is disclosed. The compressed video signal applied to the processor is generated by partitioning a video image into segments and then describing how each segment is filled by using a bilinear equation, that is to say, a linear equation which is a function of a horizontal coordinate X and a vertical coordinate Y. The coefficients of the X and Y coordinates each include integer and fractional parts. The circuitry develops a table of values from the coefficient of the X coordinate by repeatedly adding the coefficient in an accumulator. As each sum is produced, the integer part of the sum is stored. The table of values is developed from the stored integer sums as the difference between alternate sums, where successive alternate pairs of sums are interleaved. For example, the table would include the difference between the first and third sums followed by the difference between the second and fourth sums, then the third and fifth sums and so on. The segment is reconstructed by accumulating alternate ones of the table entries in separate adders. At each stage in the accumulation, the output values of the two adders are two successive pixel values along the horizontal coordinate of the segment.