WO1998011732A1 - Perceived color transient improvement - Google Patents
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- WO1998011732A1 WO1998011732A1 PCT/IB1997/000808 IB9700808W WO9811732A1 WO 1998011732 A1 WO1998011732 A1 WO 1998011732A1 IB 9700808 W IB9700808 W IB 9700808W WO 9811732 A1 WO9811732 A1 WO 9811732A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04N9/00—Details of colour television systems
- H04N9/64—Circuits for processing colour signals
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- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N9/00—Details of colour television systems
- H04N9/64—Circuits for processing colour signals
- H04N9/646—Circuits for processing colour signals for image enhancement, e.g. vertical detail restoration, cross-colour elimination, contour correction, chrominance trapping filters
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- the invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining a perceived color transient improvement, and to a television receiver incorporating such an apparatus.
- US-A-5,012,331 discloses a video enhancement apparatus for a graphics encoder which extracts "sine-squared” (haversme) pulses represenung absolute values for the de ⁇ vatives of R-Y and B-Y color-difference "sine-squared” transitions; multiplies by offset, sign-inverted luminance, and adds the luminance-weighted "sine-squared” pulses to the composite video as color enhancement signals which exceed the NTSC-legal chroma bandwidth but are within the NTSC-legal luminance bandwidth.
- the pulses augment luminance du ⁇ ng chroma transitions, resto ⁇ ng luminance cont ⁇ butions from chrominance which are lost when chroma subcar ⁇ er ⁇ se times and bandwidth are limited by NTSC broadcast requirements. This is desirable because NTSC-defined colors with a low luminance (Y) component de ⁇ ve relatively more of their visible b ⁇ ghtness from chrominance components Chrominance subcar ⁇ er ⁇ se time limiting therefore visibly darkens color transitions with low luminance more than color transitions involving relatively high luminance.
- EP-A-0, 621,732 discloses an image correction circuit having a va ⁇ able gain amplifier for amplifying an extracted high-frequency component of a luminance signal in such a manner that the gain thereof is increased when detected color density is high, and is reduced when the detected color density is low, and a slice circuit for slicing the outputted amplitude of the va ⁇ able gain amplifier at a presc ⁇ bed value, wherein a co ⁇ ected luminance signal is obtained by combining an image quality correction signal outputted from the slice circuit with the luminance signal to be co ⁇ ected.
- a first aspect of the invention provides a method as defined in claim 1.
- a second aspect of the invention provides an apparatus as defined in claim 2.
- a third aspect of the invention provides a television receiver incorporating such an apparatus.
- an artificial transient signal is inserted into a luminance signal when there is an edge in a chrominance signal in the absence of an edge in the luminance signal.
- Fig. 1 illustrates the principles according to which a major aspect of the invention operates
- Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a television receiver in accordance with the present invention.
- an input luminance signal Yin and an input chrominance signal Cin are shown.
- the input luminance signal Yin has no transient, while the input chrominance signal Cin has an increase in its amplitude.
- an output luminance signal Yout and an output chrominance signal Cout are shown.
- the output luminance signal Yout shows a change the center of which coincides with the center of the transient in the input chrominance signal Cin.
- the output chrominance signal Cout is identical to the input chrominance signal Cin.
- Fig. 1 The invention as illustrated in Fig. 1 is based on the following recognitions. Standard color transient improvement steepens an edge in the chrominance signal. While the general impression is a somewhat sharper image, the added value is relatively small.
- luminance edge enhancement contributes more to a sharper image than chrominance edge enhancement. Consequently, if luminance edges and chrominance edges are located on about the same spot, luminance edge enhancement 'overrules' the effect of chrominance edge enhancement. So, the effect of chrominance edge enhancement on positions where luminance edge enhancement is applied is negligible.
- chrominance edge enhancement is only meaningful if such an edge does not go along with a luminance edge. And if a chrominance edge does not go .along with a luminance edge, the perception of that chrominance edge can significantly be improved by introducing an artificial transition in the lumin-ance signal at that location.
- the innovation brought by the present invention is that in the absence of a transient in the input luminance signal Yin, an improved color transient perception is obtained by introducing a transient in the output luminance signal Yout at the location of a transient in the input chrominance signal Cin, without affecting the chrominance signal itself.
- Fig. 1 shows just one possible waveform of an artificial peaked signal inserted in the output luminance signal, other waveforms can readily be conceived by those skilled in the .art.
- Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a television receiver in accordance with the present invention.
- the input luminance signal Yin is applied to a luminance edge detector 10 which supplies a logical ONE signal only if there is no edge in the input luminance signal Yin.
- the input chrominance signal Cin is applied to a chrominance edge detector 20 which supplies a logical ONE signal only if there is an edge in the input chrominance signal Cin.
- a multiplier 30 multiplies the logical signals from the edge detectors 10, 20 and furnishes a logical control signal (only ONE if there is an edge in the input chrominance signal Cin but no edge in the input luminance signal Yin) to artificial peaked signal generator 40.
- the chrominance edge detector 20 furnishes edge parameters like width and steepness of the edge to the artificial peaked signal generator 40.
- An output signal from the generator 40 is applied to an adder 50, which also received a peaked luminance signal from an optional luminance peaking circuit 60 to which the input luminance signal Yin is applied.
- the adder 50 supplies the output luminance signal Yout, while in the present embodiment, the output chrominance signal Cout is identical to the input chrominance signal Cin.
- the output luminance signal Yout and the output chrominance signal Cout are applied to a matrix circuit 70 which furnishes RGB signals to a display unit 80.
- both demodulated chrominance signals U and V may be used.
- the chrominance edge detector 20 may furnish a logical ONE output signal only if there is an edge in both demodulated chrominance signals U .and V, or in .an .alternative embodiment, already if there is an edge in only one of the demodulated chrominance sign.als U and V.
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DE69716710T DE69716710T2 (en) | 1996-09-16 | 1997-07-01 | IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COLOR TRANSITION |
EP97926189A EP0867089B1 (en) | 1996-09-16 | 1997-07-01 | Perceived color transient improvement |
KR1019980703547A KR19990067525A (en) | 1996-09-16 | 1997-07-01 | How to improve sensory color transients |
JP10513419A JP2000500952A (en) | 1996-09-16 | 1997-07-01 | Improvement of perceived color transition state |
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