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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1999
Kazushi Sato, Chiba, JP;
Kenji Komori, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Mitsuhashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masami Goseki, Tokyo, JP;
Naofumi Yanagihara, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An MPEG downdecoder is to be provided which eliminates dephasing of pixels of moving picture data without losing properties inherent in a picture obtained on interlaced scanning. In the case of a field DCT mode, 4×4 decimating IDCT is executed for phase correction for a ¼ pixel for pixels in the vertical direction of a top field and for phase correction for ¾ pixel for pixels in the vertical direction of a bottom field. In the case of a frame DCT mode, the totality of coefficients of a DCT block are IDCTed and separated into two pixel blocks associated with interlaced scanning. The low-frequency components of these two pixel blocks are IDCTed to synthesize the two pixel blocks. The pixels in the vertical direction of the top field are phase-corrected by a ¼ pixel, while those in the vertical direction of the bottom field are phase-corrected by a ¾ pixel.