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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2010
Applicant:
Takashi Suzuki, Hanyu, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Suzuki, Hanyu, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/21 (2006.01); H04N 1/407 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a gradation control apparatus comprises a coring module configured to change the coring amount of a video signal according to the degree of movement of the video signal, a smoothing module configured to perform a gradation smoothing process on the video signal, and a parameter controller configured to obtain a frame difference histogram as the degree of movement of the video signal and change an effect parameter for the gradation smoothing process according to the result of weighting the histogram.