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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1999
Bozidar Janko, Portland, OR (US);
Kamalesh Patel, Portland, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for the detection of repeated and frozen frames in a video signal obtains the absolute differences between pixels in corresponding fields of consecutive frames and generates a logic bit-map based on a threshold that is related to a maximum absolute difference for the field. The logic “1”s in the logic bit-map are counted to determine a normalized distribution count for the field and to determine an actual count in each of a plurality of segments of the logic bit-map. The actual counts are compared with bounds generated from the normalized distribution count and, if all the actual counts for the field are within the bounds, a repeated frame is reported. Alternatively in the absence of noise the actual counts are compared with a minimum value and, if all of the actual counts are below the minimum value, a repeated frame is reported.