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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hartmut Heinemann, Ahrensburg, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36472419 ; 358 36 ;
Abstract
Signal smoothing can be improved without simultaneously obliterating the useful input signal edges by adaptively filtering the signal, in which the averaging interval is corresponding to the length of a kernel is incremented or decremented as a function of a difference between an output signal sample computed from the kernel and an output signal sample succeeding the kernel.