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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerhard Wischermann, Weiterstadt, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G06K / ; G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382275 ; 348607 ;
Abstract
A video signal-processing device includes an arrangement for detecting film scratches. To distinguish slant scratches in the video signal from other scratch-like image structures in a safe manner, the arrangement for detecting scratches is intended to determine whether at least the section of a scratch extends from the lower margin of an image N-1 preceding a current image N into the upper margin of the current image N, and whether at least a further section of a scratch extends from the lower margin of a current image N into the upper margin of an image N+1 succeeding the current image N.