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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1993
Carlos Correa, VS-Schwenningen, DE;
Rainer Schweer, Niedereschach, DE;
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Villengen-Schwenningen, DE;
Abstract
A film mode detection method and corresponding relatively non complex hardware implementation compares the amplitudes of pixels of corresponding image areas of three successive field to determine if the pixel amplitudes are monotonically increasing or decreasing. Depending on the comparison a positive or negative polarity indication is generated and these indications are combined within each field to generate a polarity indication representing each respective field. The field sequence of such field polarity indications are thereafter compared with a predetermined pattern to determine whether the video signal is from a film or video-mode source.