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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terrence R Smith, Westmont, NJ (US);
Michael A Isnardi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Jack S Fuhrer, Princeton, NJ (US);
Chandrakant B Patel, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358166 ; 358 22 ; 358 37 ; 358160 ; 3647241 ;
Abstract
In a video signal expanding/compressing system including a video signal interpolator, video signals are peaked prior to interpolation. The amount of peaking is controlled in response to a signal representative of the distance between a pixel of an expanded/compressed video signal and a corresponding pixel of an original video signal.