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Picture quality measurement using blockiness
Assignee: Tektronix Inc
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Filing: 1998-09-10
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Granted: 2004-09-21
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Expires: 2018-09-10
Abstract
Abstract A picture quality measurement technique using blockiness provides realtime analysis without the use of a reference signal. A field/frame of an image represented by a processed video signal is captured in a bit-map for analysis. The image is filtered to enhance edges and then correlated with a kernel having a size corresponding to the block size of the compression algorithm used in compressing and decompressing the video signal to produce the processed video signal. The correlation results are processed by comparing an average value with the maximum value to produce a picture quality rating for the processed video signal.
Inventors
- 👤 Bozidar Janko
- 👤 Steven D. Maurer
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 13:22
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N17/00; H04N17/004; H04N19/00; H04N19/50; H04N19/503; H04N19/51; H04N19/527; H04N19/85; H04N19/86; H04N19/865
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
60 words
A method of measuring picture quality of an image represented by a processed video signal based upon blockiness comprising the steps of: determining values for edges in the image; correlating the edge values with a kernel having spacing corresponding to a specified block size to produce n correlation values; and generating from the correlation values a picture quality rating value.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
60 words
A method of measuring picture quality of an image represented by a processed video signal based upon blockiness comprising the steps of: determining values for edges in the image; correlating the edge values with a kernel having spacing corresponding to a specified block size to produce n correlation values; and generating from the correlation values a picture quality rating value.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
46 words
The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the determining step comprises the steps of: storing in a bit-map the image from the video signal; and processing the image from the bit-map with a first filter function in a first direction to provide the edge values.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
62 words
The method as recited in claim 2 wherein the determining step further comprises the steps of: processing the image from the bit-map with a second filter function in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to provide the edge values; and combining the edge values from the two processing steps to produce the edge values for input to the correlating step.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
35 words
The method as recited in claims 2 or 3 wherein the processing step comprises the steps of: obtaining the differences between adjacent pixels; and summing the differences for each pixel on a modulo n basis.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method as recited in claim 4 further comprising the step of converting the differences to absolute values before the summing step.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
44 words
The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the generating step comprises the steps of: calculating an average for the correlation values; and subtracting the average from a maximum one of the correlation values to produce a quality measure as the picture quality rating.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method as recited in claim 6 wherein the generating step further comprises the step of scaling the quality measure by a fixed constant to produce the picture quality rating.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
44 words
The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of: repeating the correlating and generating steps with a kernel having a size other than the specified block size; and subtracting the results of the generating steps to produce the picture quality rating.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method as recited in claim 8 further comprising the step of scaling the results of the subtracting step by a fixed constant to produce the picture quality rating.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of determining from the correlation values a block location for the specified block.
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