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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1990
Masafumi Kurashige, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Harada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mosaic effect generating apparatus having at least a single-line memory supplied with an incoming video signal, and supplying as its output a mosaic effect signal a clock signal generating circuit that determines the mosaic width by generating a clock signal of a predetermined frequency and supplying the clock signal to the single-line memory as a write clock signal and a read clock signal and a write control circuit that determines the mosaic height by enabling the incoming video signal to be writtenn in the single-line memory only during selected portions of each horizontal interval of a selected plurality of said successive horizontal intervals of the incoming video signal.