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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:
Jan. 19, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J Hedley, Winchester, GB;
Martin R Dorricott, Basingstoke, GB;
Assignee:
Sony Broadcast & Communications Limited, Basingstoke, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358140 ; 358105 ; 358311 ; 358346 ;
Abstract
Video signal processing apparatus, for example a television standards converter (12), for motion adaptive or motion compensated processing a video signal in dependence on inter-field or inter-frame information, comprises a reader (21) for reading scene discontinuity information relating to the video signal, which may be expressed in time codes, from a recording medium such as a magnetic disc, the apparatus being controlled in dependence on the read information to cause the processing of the video signal to change to being dependent on intra-field or intra-frame information at a scene discontinuity.