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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Barth Alan Canfield, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Friedrich Rominger, Brigachtal, DE;
Detlef Teichner, Konlgsfeld, DE;
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne Cedex, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348845 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for pre-processing of a digital video data stream including luminance and chrominance pixel data, the apparatus comprising a plurality of pre-processing units including a horizontal filter unit and a vertical filter unit. The horizontal filter unit is located at an input side and the vertical filter unit is located at an output side of the preprocessing apparatus and wherein all read/write memory for storing data outputted from or inputted to the plurality of pre-processing units is contained in a single memory block.