The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 18, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2000
Yutaka Nio, Osaka, JP;
Satoshi Okamoto, Osaka, JP;
Katsumi Terai, Higashiosaka, JP;
Naoji Okumura, Mino, JP;
Kazuhito Tanaka, Otsu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A vertical HPF and a horizontal HPF receive a video signal , and extract only a high frequency component in the vertical/horizontal directions, respectively. Absolute value taking parts take an absolute value of the high frequency components, respectively, and change their values to positive values. A horizontal accumulating/adding part and a vertical accumulating/adding part accumulate/add an input signal so as to output a vertical one-dimensional signal and a horizontal one-dimensional signal, respectively, each periodically having a peak value in the respective vertical and horizontal directions. A horizontal peak detecting part detects a horizontal peak position according to the horizontal one-dimensional signal. A vertical peak detecting part detects a vertical peak position according to the vertical one-dimensional signal and identifies a format thereof. A binarization part obtains a block boundary image, according to the horizontal peak position and the vertical peak position, in which pixel positions having a peak are provided with 1 and remaining pixel positions are provided with 0. In this manner, even if a block boundary to eliminate block noise thereon is not clearly identified, it becomes possible to correctly detect and eliminate the block boundary.