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Receiving system for band-compression image signal

Assignee: Japan Broadcasting Corp
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Filing: 1989-02-23
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Granted: 1990-01-02
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Expires: 2009-02-23
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Abstract

Abstract When the receiving system for a band-compression image signal receives a dropout signal representing a dropout portion of an image signal, an output of the third delay circuit of the temporal filter for motion detection processing, that is, motion information of an image signal, which precedes by one field, and a dropout signal activate the signal selection control circuit to produce an output signal for controlling the operation of the signal selection circuit, so that an output signal of the first delay circuit is selected for a static portion of an image, and an output signal of the dropout compensation circuit is selected for a moving portion of an image, so as to effect compensation control of the dropout portion of an image signal, thereby preventing deterioration of the quality of an image.

Inventors

  • 👤 Masanori Hamada
  • 👤 Takeshi Inoue
  • 👤 Mitsuo Isobe
  • 👤 Yuichi Ninomiya
  • 👤 Yoshimichi Ohtsuka
  • 👤 Yoshinori Izumi

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N7/00; H04N7/12; H04N7/122; H04N7/125; H04N7/015

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 170 words
A receiving system for a band-compression image signal having input means supplied with an image signal subjected to band-compression processing like multiple sub-Nyquist sampling and a dropout signal representing a dropout portion of the image signal, said receiving system comprising: a first delay circuit for inter-frame interpolation; a dropout compensation circuit including a second delay circuit for delaying at least one horizontal scanning period; a signal selection circuit connected to respective outputs of said first delay circuit and said dropout compensation circuit for selecting one of an image signal and outputs of said first delay circuit and said dropout compensation circuit; a motion detection circuit connected to said first delay circuit; a temporal filter including a third delay circuit for expanding an output of said motion detection circuit along the time axis; and a signal selection control circuit producing an output for controlling said signal selection circuit, the output of said signal selection control circuit being processed by an output signal of said third delay circuit and the dropout signal.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 170 words
A receiving system for a band-compression image signal having input means supplied with an image signal subjected to band-compression processing like multiple sub-Nyquist sampling and a dropout signal representing a dropout portion of the image signal, said receiving system comprising: a first delay circuit for inter-frame interpolation; a dropout compensation circuit including a second delay circuit for delaying at least one horizontal scanning period; a signal selection circuit connected to respective outputs of said first delay circuit and said dropout compensation circuit for selecting one of an image signal and outputs of said first delay circuit and said dropout compensation circuit; a motion detection circuit connected to said first delay circuit; a temporal filter including a third delay circuit for expanding an output of said motion detection circuit along the time axis; and a signal selection control circuit producing an output for controlling said signal selection circuit, the output of said signal selection control circuit being processed by an output signal of said third delay circuit and the dropout signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 86 words
A receiving system for a band-compression image signal according to claim 1, wherein a control signal is supplied to said signal selection circuit from said signal selection control circuit so that said signal selection circuit responds to an output signal of said third delay circuit to select an output of said dropout compensation circuit for a portion of the image signal representing a moving image and to select an output of said first delay circuit for a portion of the image signal representing a static image.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 36 words
A receiving system for a band-compression image signal according to claim 1, wherein said temporal filter is controlled by the dropout signal to shorten an expansion time of an output signal of said motion detection circuit.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 92 words
A receiving system for a band-compression image signal according to claim 1, wherein said temporal filter is a cyclic filter comprising a coefficient circuit for multiplying a predetermined coefficient, a field memory for delaying an output of said coefficient circuit by one field and feeding back a resultant delayed signal, and a maximum selection circuit for selecting a greater one of a feedback motion quantity and a present motion quantity, a multiplication coefficient of said coefficient circuit being changed by the dropout signal to shorten an expansion time of the motion quantity.

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