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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2004
Applicant:
James Edward Nave, Denton, TX (US);
Inventor:
James Edward Nave, Denton, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 17/02 (2006.01); H04N 5/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatic level control (ALC) in a video signal processing system. The new ALC of the invention takes into account the gain applied to the video signal, such as that provided by an associated automatic gain control (AGC). Methods and systems of the invention use present gain control values and previous gain control values in quickly converging to a new offset control value.