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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Bozidar Janko, Portland, OR (US);
John Raitz, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A method of measuring blockiness in a video signal generates a power spectrum for a video field of the video signal. The largest peaks of the power spectrum at the higher frequency end of the power spectrum are initially selected and a common frequency interval between peaks is determined. The contribution to the amplitude of peaks at the common frequency interval by peaks at other than the common frequency interval are subtracted from the amplitude of the peaks at the common frequency interval. The average of the corrected amplitudes of the peaks at the common frequency interval is obtained and normalized as a blockiness metric for the video signal.