US4575749A
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Component companding in a multiplexed component system
Assignee: RCA Corp
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Filing: 1983-07-28
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Granted: 1986-03-11
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Expires: 2003-07-28
Abstract
Abstract A transmitter applies luminance and chroma components of a color television signal to a transmission path, such as a VTR or satellite, in amplitude compressed form. To obtain optimum improvement in S/N ratio, different compression laws for the luminance and chroma components are used. The signals can also be time compressed and sent in TDM form.
Inventors
- 👤 Alfonse A. Acampora
- 👤 Richard M. Bunting
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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2026-10-27 04:47
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N9/00; H04N9/77; H04N9/79; H04N9/80; H04N9/82; H04N11/00; H04N11/06; H04N11/08
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
92 words
A method for transmitting luminance and chroma component signals of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said method comprising amplitude compressing said component signals using different compression laws for said luminance component signal and for said chroma component signals, and wherein: said compression law for said luminance component signal is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component signal and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component signal is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component signal.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
92 words
A method for transmitting luminance and chroma component signals of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said method comprising amplitude compressing said component signals using different compression laws for said luminance component signal and for said chroma component signals, and wherein: said compression law for said luminance component signal is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component signal and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component signal is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
94 words
Apparatus for transmitting luminance and chroma component signals of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said apparatus comprising first means for amplitude compressing said component signals using different compression laws for said luminance component signal and for said chroma component signal and wherein; said compression law for said luminance component signal is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component signal and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component signal is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component signal.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
94 words
Apparatus for transmitting luminance and chroma component signals of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said apparatus comprising first means for amplitude compressing said component signals using different compression laws for said luminance component signal and for said chroma component signal and wherein; said compression law for said luminance component signal is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component signal and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component signal is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component signal.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
66 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising second means for time compressing said luminance and chroma components; switch means for selectively coupling the time compressed components to the input of said first means and controller means coupled to said switch means and to said first means for controlling the compression law of said first means in accordance with the component selected by said switch means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
56 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said chroma component signal comprises first and second color difference component signals and wherein said first means uses different compression laws for each of said color difference component signals, and wherein each compression law is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of respective ones of said color difference signals.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
98 words
Apparatus for receiving amplitude compressed luminance and chroma components of a color video signal wherein said components are compressed prior to transmission by different compression laws for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said apparatus comprising first means for expanding said components using different expansion laws that are the inverse of said respective compression laws; said expansion law for said luminance component being is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component and wherein said expansion law for said chrominance component being is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
98 words
Apparatus for receiving amplitude compressed luminance and chroma components of a color video signal wherein said components are compressed prior to transmission by different compression laws for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signals, said apparatus comprising first means for expanding said components using different expansion laws that are the inverse of said respective compression laws; said expansion law for said luminance component being is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component and wherein said expansion law for said chrominance component being is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
101 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said component signals are also time compressed and transmitted in time division multiplex form, said apparatus further comprising switch means coupled to the output of said first means for demultiplexing said component signals subsequent to amplitude expansion by said first means, a separate second means coupled to said switch means for providing time expansion of respective ones of said demultiplexed component signals; and controller means coupled to said switch means and to said first means for controlling the expansion law of said first means with the component selected for demultiplexing by said switch means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
59 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said chroma component comprises first and second color difference components, each having different amplitude compression laws, said first means having different expansion laws for each of said chroma components and wherein each color difference component expansion law is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of respective ones of said color difference components.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
117 words
Apparatus for transmitting luminance and chroma components of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signal, said apparatus comprising, time compression means for each of said components; multiplexing means coupled to said compression means; amplitude compression means coupled to said multiplexing means and having different compression laws for said luminance and chrominance components; digital-to-analog converters coupled to said amplitude compression means; and a transmission path coupled to said converter means; and wherein said compression law for said luminance component is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component; and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
117 words
Apparatus for transmitting luminance and chroma components of a color video signal and for reducing the effect of noise on the transmitted signal, said apparatus comprising, time compression means for each of said components; multiplexing means coupled to said compression means; amplitude compression means coupled to said multiplexing means and having different compression laws for said luminance and chrominance components; digital-to-analog converters coupled to said amplitude compression means; and a transmission path coupled to said converter means; and wherein said compression law for said luminance component is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component; and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
Claim 13
Independent Claim
184 words
A method for transmitting color television signals comprising at least a luminance and a chrominance component from a source of signals, comprising the steps of controllably time-compressing each line of luminance-representative video to produce time-compressed luminance signals; controllably time-compressing each line of chrominance-representative video to produce time-compressed chrominance signals; controlling said controllably time-compressing so that the sum of the duration of the time compressed luminance and chrominance-representative signals equals a predetermined duration and so that each of said time-compressed luminance and chrominance signal is generated time-sequentially; adding together said time-compressed luminance and chrominance signals to form a sequential time-multiplexed signal including luminance and chrominance signal positions in a time sequence; amplitude-compressing said sequential time-multiplexed signal according to a controllable law; controlling said law in accordance with said time sequence to form a plural-law-compressed signal; and transmitting said plural-law-compressed signal over a single transmission channel and wherein: said compression law for said luminance component is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
Claim 14
Independent Claim
184 words
A method for transmitting color television signals comprising at least a luminance and a chrominance component from a source of signals, comprising the steps of controllably time-compressing each line of luminance-representative video to produce time-compressed luminance signals; controllably time-compressing each line of chrominance-representative video to produce time-compressed chrominance signals; controlling said controllably time-compressing so that the sum of the duration of the time compressed luminance and chrominance-representative signals equals a predetermined duration and so that each of said time-compressed luminance and chrominance signal is generated time-sequentially; adding together said time-compressed luminance and chrominance signals to form a sequential time-multiplexed signal including luminance and chrominance signal positions in a time sequence; amplitude-compressing said sequential time-multiplexed signal according to a controllable law; controlling said law in accordance with said time sequence to form a plural-law-compressed signal; and transmitting said plural-law-compressed signal over a single transmission channel and wherein: said compression law for said luminance component is a non-symmetrical function of the amplitude of said luminance component and wherein said compression law for said chrominance component is a symmetrical function of the amplitude of said chrominance component.
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