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1. WO2001063921 - IMAGE SIGNAL CONVERTER, IMAGE SIGNAL CONVERTING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY USING IT, AND COEFFICIENT DATA GENERATOR FOR USE THEREIN

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Publication Number WO/2001/063921
Publication Date 30.08.2001
International Application No. PCT/JP2001/001160
International Filing Date 19.02.2001
IPC
H04N 7/01 2006.1
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
7Television systems
01Conversion of standards
H04N 5/44 2011.1
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
5Details of television systems
44Receiver circuitry
CPC
H04N 21/440218
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
40Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
43Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
44Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream, rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs
4402involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display
440218by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4
H04N 21/4854
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
40Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
47End-user applications
485End-user interface for client configuration
4854for modifying image parameters, e.g. image brightness, contrast
H04N 5/44
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
5Details of television systems
44Receiver circuitry ; for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards;
H04N 7/0125
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
7Television systems
01Conversion of standards ; , e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level
0125one of the standards being a high definition standard
H04N 7/0137
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
7Television systems
01Conversion of standards ; , e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level
0135involving interpolation processes
0137dependent on presence/absence of motion, e.g. of motion zones
H04N 7/0145
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
7Television systems
01Conversion of standards ; , e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level
0135involving interpolation processes
0145the interpolation being class adaptive, i.e. it uses the information of class which is determined for a pixel based upon certain characteristics of the neighbouring pixels
Applicants
  • SONY CORPORATION [JP]/[JP] (AllExceptUS)
  • KONDO, Tetsujiro [JP]/[JP] (UsOnly)
  • TAKAHASHI, Kenji [JP]/[JP] (UsOnly)
  • YOSHIKAWA, Kazushi [JP]/[JP] (UsOnly)
Inventors
  • KONDO, Tetsujiro
  • TAKAHASHI, Kenji
  • YOSHIKAWA, Kazushi
Agents
  • YAMAGUCHI, Kunio
Priority Data
2000-12479425.04.2000JP
2000-12479625.04.2000JP
2000-4794724.02.2000JP
Publication Language Japanese (ja)
Filing Language Japanese (JA)
Designated States
Title
(EN) IMAGE SIGNAL CONVERTER, IMAGE SIGNAL CONVERTING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY USING IT, AND COEFFICIENT DATA GENERATOR FOR USE THEREIN
(FR) CONVERTISSEUR DE SIGNAL D'IMAGE, PROCEDE DE CONVERSION DE SIGNAL D'IMAGE, AFFICHAGE D'IMAGE A L'AIDE DUDIT PROCEDE, ET GENERATEUR DE DONNEES DE COEFFICIENT UTILISEES DANS CE PROCEDE
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Abstract
(EN) An image signal converter suitable for converting, for example, an SD signal (525i) into an HD signal (525P). An image signal converting section (110) converts an SD signal into an HD signal and displays an image on a display section (111). The space class or the movement class is determined from the pixel data of a tap corresponding to the pixel concerned of the HD signal taken out selectively from the SD signal and a class code CL indicative of the class thereof is obtained. When a user selects the resolution, a controller (101) loads coefficient data on each class of the selected resolution to a coefficient memory (134) from an information memory bank (135). An operating circuit (127) operates the pixel data of the pixel concerned of the HD signal according to an estimation expression based on the data xi of a tap corresponding to the pixel of the HD signal taken out selectively from the SD signal through a tap selection circuit (121), and coefficient data wi read out from the coefficient memory (134) with the class code CL.
(FR) L'invention concerne un convertisseur d'image permettant de convertir, par exemple, un signal SD (525I) en un signal HD (525P). Une section de conversion (110) de signal d'image convertit un signal SD en un signal HD, et affiche une image sur une section d'affichage (111). La classe d'espace ou de mouvement est déterminée à partir des données de pixel d'un branchement correspondant au pixel concerné du signal HD sélectivement extrait du signal SD, et un code de classe indicateur de ladite classe est obtenu. Lorsqu'un utilisateur sélectionne une résolution, un contrôleur (101) charge des données de coefficient de chaque classe de la résolution sélectionnée vers une mémoire de coefficients (134) à partir d'un bloc de mémoire (135) d'informations. Un circuit d'exploitation (127) traite les données du pixel concerné du signal HD en fonction d'une expression d'estimation basée sur les données xi d'un branchement correspondant au pixel du signal HD sélectivement extrait du signal SD par l'intermédiaire d'un circuit de sélection (121) de branchement, et les données de coefficient wi sont lues à partir de la mémoire de coefficients (134) à l'aide du code de classe CL.
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