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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1993

Filed:

Feb. 19, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Thomas Suwald, Hamburg, DE;

Robert Meyer, Hamburg, DE;

Marcel Pelgrom, Helmond, NL;

Assignee:

U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 31 ;
Abstract

For a comb filter arrangement, for example, for separating a color picture signal into a modulated chrominance subcarrier and a luminance signal, while generating two comb filter function, a one-stage median filter (21) is provided in which the amplitudes of the simultaneously available signals of three picture lines and the two comb filter functions are compared with each other in a comparator stage which supplies logical comparison signals to a selection logic (30) in dependence upon the comparison results. The selection logic (30) constantly determines the signal having the middle instantaneous amplitude of the signals applied to the comparator stage on the basis of the comparison signals, and applies this signal to the medium filter output.


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