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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1989
Steven Spears, West Covina, CA (US);
David Walker, Glendora, CA (US);
Walker Digital Audio Video Systems, Inc., Covina, CA (US);
Abstract
Circuitry for selectively reducing noise which results from film granularity, circuitry imperfections and other sources of random signal degradation by averaging, non-recursively, between 2 and 9 frames of digitized video information. By such averaging, since the noise is random, it is filtered out leaving only the desired picture. The averaging is performed only on areas of the picture which are close in both amplitude and color in adjacent frames. In this connection, in cases where there is no motion or scene change between adjacent frames, the entire picture corresponding to such frames can be processed according to the present invention.