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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1993

Filed:

Oct. 26, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:

Jon A Fairhurst, Grass Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

The Grass Valley Group, Inc., Nevada City, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 31 ; 358 36 ;
Abstract

An inverse hyperbolic comb filter decodes an encoded signal by subtracting a vertically filtered and horizontally filtered version of the encoded signal from a delayed version of the encoded signal whereupon the resulting output is further horizontally filtered to provide a first decoded output. A twice delayed version of the input signal then has the first output signal subtracted therefrom to provide a second output. Optional further vertical filtering may be employed to vertically filter the output of the first subtractor before the final horizontal filtering is performed. The filter may also be employed in encoding signals wherein the components to be encoded are first filtered prior to combining. The inverse hyperbolic comb filter is applicable to any system employing combining of two-dimensional signals via quadrature modulation and may also be employed in three-dimensional systems.


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