477results about "Conversion with cinematograph film standard" patented technology

A method of detecting content based defects in previously compressed video streams decodes a video channel from the compressed video streams and performs a match on a frame/field basis between each frame/field of the video channel and a black frame/field and/or a previous frame/field to detect missing frames/fields and/or duplicate frames/fields. The number of consecutive missing and/or duplicate frames/fields are counted and an alarm signal is generated when the count exceeds a specified value. A beat pattern detector may be used to differentiate between 3/2 pulldown and other duplicate frame/field content errors, and a graphics detector may be used to differentiate between lettering/graphics stills and other duplicate frame/field content errors.

The present invention relates to methods and systems for the exhibition of a motion picture with enhanced perceived resolution and visual quality. The enhancement of perceived resolution is achieved both spatially and temporally. Spatial resolution enhancement creates image details using both temporal-based methods and learning-based methods. Temporal resolution enhancement creates synthesized new image frames that enable a motion picture to be displayed at a higher frame rate. The digitally enhanced motion picture is to be exhibited using a projection system or a display device that supports a higher frame rate and/or a higher display resolution than what is required for the original motion picture.

A video system that performs TV signal decoding, deinterlacing, and de-motion-blurring for progressive scan flat panel display is introduced. The system embeds a frame buffer and a scaler for conducting format and resolution conversions for display panels of different sizes. The output of the scaler is sent to a de-motion-blur processor for reducing the blurriness due to the motion of image objects and the slow response time of flat panel display devices. The de-motion-blur processor gets the motion and noise indication signal from scaler or the pre-frame-buffer video processor. Based on the motion and noise information and the information of temporal difference, the de-motion-blur processor performs over driving for the display panel interface and improves the rising and falling response time of the flat panel display. The decoding, deinterlacing, and de-motion-blur processing share the same frame buffer controller so the entire system can be optimized in cost and performance.

A first motion vector is estimated by using a first frame and a second frame that follows the first frame. A support frame is generated from at least either the first or the second frame by using the first motion vector. The support frame is divided into a plurality of small blocks. Motion vector candidates are estimated by using the first and second frames, in relation to each of the small blocks. A small block on the first frame, a small block on the second frame and the small blocks on the support frame are examined. The small block on the first frame and the small block on the second frame correspond to each of the motion vector candidates. A second motion vector is selected from the motion vector candidates, and points the small block on the first frame and the small block on the second frame which have the highest correlation with each of the small blocks on the support frame. An interpolated frame is generated from at least either the first or the second frame by using the second motion vector.

A deinterlacing system which converts an interlaced video stream into a progressive video stream is disclosed. The deinterlacing system includes a field assembly responsive to a last field, a next field, a current field and progressive source phase and operative to develop a progressive output frame, a source detection module responsive to last, next and current fields and operative to develop a progressive source phase and a progressive source detected and an intra-frame deinterlacer responsive to the progressive output frame and the progressive source detected and operative to develop a progressive frame output.

A process and methods of digital enhancement of motion pictures and other moving image sequences for the purpose of being exhibited in an alternative display format including a large format cinema are disclosed. The invention efficiently enhances image resolution and quality through a temporal filtering process and achieves high performance using automated or interactive statistical quality evaluation methods. A system specially designed for efficient temporal computing with a parallel and distributed computing configuration equipped with a variety of optimization schemes is also disclosed. The performance of the process and the system is optimized through an intelligent controller and is scalable to support any throughput requirements demanded for concurrent motion picture releases in the original format as well as in any alternative format.

A video signal converting apparatus and method for improving display quality of video signals from both film source and video source. It is discriminated whether the input video signal is an interlaced video signal or not, and it is discriminated whether the input video signal is a video signal from a film source based on a film. If the input video signal is discriminated as interlaced video signals, the input video signal is converted, for outputting, to the progressive video signals by a converting method in accordance with a discrimination result regarding whether the input video signal is a video signal from the film source or not. The converted progressive video signal is converted, for outputting, to a video signal having a high frame rate in accordance with the discrimination result regarding whether the converted progressive video signal is a video signal from the film source or not. If the input video signal is not discriminated as an interlaced video signal, the input video signal is converted to a video signal having a high frame rate in accordance with a discrimination result regarding whether the input video signal is a video signal from the film source or not.

Disclosed is a video restoring apparatus and method thereof enabling to improve a video mode by interpolating field data. The present invention includes the steps of: identifying whether a scene on an image sequence is changed by receiving field data; detecting whether a 3:2 pull-down mode exists in the image sequence; generating a first interpolated frame by interleaving a field to be interpolated and adjacent fields each other when there is the 3:2 pull-down mode; generating a second interpolated frame by de-interlacing the field to be interpolated and the adjacent fields each other when there is not the 3:2 pull-down mode, and selectively outputting one of the first and second interpolated frames.

A television line doubler (interlaced to progressive scan converter) incorporating the following aspects—an improved field motion detector which does not treat low frequency vertical transitions as motion; a frame motion detector having an improved ability to differentiate motion from subcarrier signal components; a sawtooth artifact detector; a sawtooth artifact detector in combination with a film pattern detector, such that the artifact detector can take the film pattern detector out of film mode earlier than it would if it only were responsive to a break in the film pattern; tandem field motion detectors; an improved field based film detector; film pattern detectors and motion detectors used therewith which operate by performing end-of-field calculations; the combination of a field motion detector and a frame motion detector such that the frame motion detector provides a motion signal used as a verification by the field motion detector; an improved NTSC film detector requiring a minimum number of NTSC film pattern sequences; and an improved PAL film detector employing a minimum motion threshold detector.

A multi-format digital video production system enables a user to process an input video program to produce an output version of the program in a final format which may have a different frame rate, pixel dimensions, aspect ratio, or any combination thereof. An internal production format of 24 fps is preferably chosen to provide the greatest compatibility with existing and planned formats associated with HDTV standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9 high-definition television, and film. Images are re-sized horizontally and vertically by pixel interpolation, thereby producing larger or smaller image dimensions so as to fill the particular needs of individual applications. Frame rates are adapted by inter-frame interpolation or by traditional schemes, including “3:2 pull-down” for 24-to-30 fps conversions. Simple speed-up (for 24-to-25 conversions) or slow-down (for 25-to-24 conversions) for playback, or by manipulating the frame rate itself using a program storage facility with asynchronous reading and writing capabilities. The step of converting the signal to a HDTV format is preferably performed using a higher sampling clock frequency and a resizing to HDTV format frame dimensions in pixels. An integrated system having digital television standard conversion capabilities is disclosed, wherein audio/video input signals are received in high-speed serialized form, transferred to a high-speed data bus, and fed to one or more standards converters operating according to the invention, thereby providing a variety of serial or parallel digital signal outputs. The system may further include a wide-/local-area network interface, mass storage, digital effects unit and workstations for multiple users.

There is provided an image signal deinterlacing apparatus for converting an interlaced scanning image into a progressive scanning image. The deinterlacing apparatus includes: an intra-field pixel processing unit for detecting a face area and a to-be-interpolated data within a field by using pixels of a field disposed before two field from a current field; a motion value generating unit for detecting first to third motion values and first and second motion degree values; a history control unit for detecting a history value; a fast image processing unit for detecting a fast motion image; a film image processing unit for detecting a film image and a caption area and determining a to-be-interpolated field data; a still image processing unit for accumulating the first motion value and the second motion degree value to detect a still image; an inter-field noise image processing unit for detecting an adjacent inter-field noise image; a motion boundary maintenance image processing unit for detecting a motion boundary maintenance image; and a synthesizing unit for selectively interpolating the intra-field to-be-interpolated data, the before-one-field inter-field data and the before-three-field inter-field data according to the detection result.

The invention provides an editing system for editing and combining media material into a resulting media composition. The media may be film or video based material, and also may include audio material. The video may adhere to either NTSC or PAL timing. In response to editing instructions, an Edit Decision List (EDL) is produced that specifies the material that makes up the edited composition, and the order of presentation of this material in the output composition. The EDL specifies the input clips that are taken from the source material using source timecode and similarly defines the output order again according to a new time code, the record time code. The editing system produces an extended EDL that facilitates the downstream processing (after the editing has been completed) for post production tasks requiring the need to know accurately where edit points occur.

A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate converter is able to perform the tasks of film-mode detection, motion-adaptive scan rate conversion, and content-dependent video noise reduction. Adaptive video noise reduction is incorporated in the process where temporal noise reduction is performed on the still parts of the image, thus preserving high detail spatial information, and data-adaptive spatial noise reduction is performed on the moving parts of the image. A low-pass filter is used in flat fields to smooth out Gaussian noise and a direction-dependent median filter is used in the presence of impulsive noise or an edge. Therefore, the selected spatial filter is optimized for the particular pixel that is being processed to maintain crisp edges.

A deinterlacing apparatus and method use a buffer unit having a previous field buffer, a current field buffer, and a next field buffer to store, sequentially, individual fields of an image signal; calculate a Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) value of a predetermined search region unit with reference to a next field stored in the next field buffer and a previous field stored in the previous field buffer; determine whether the predetermined search region is a still region and whether a source of the image signal is a film based on the SAD value; uses a 3D interpolation unit to output adaptively a temporal interpolation value and a spatial interpolation value based on motion information; and adaptively select a deinterlacing result based on the previous field, the next field, and an output of the 3D interpolation unit according to a signal outputted from the still region/film mode detection unit.

A film mode detector detects film mode of a series of fields of video by comparing pixels in a field adjacent the current field, with corresponding pixels directly above and directly below the pixels in an adjacent field. The number of pixels in the adjacent in time to the current field having (or not having) a value approximately between values of the pixels above and below in the current field is assessed. Film mode for a current field may be detected by monitoring the assessment from field to field. Alternatively or additionally, the detector may detect film mode by assessing for each current field, whether a relatively large or relatively small number of pixels in the immediately previous field have values outside a specified distance of values of a corresponding pixel in the immediately subsequent field, for at least a portion of the immediately previous and subsequent fields. Again, film mode may be detected by monitoring this second assessment from field to field.

A video apparatus is provided with automatic deinterlacing and inverse telecine pre-filtering capability to automatically analyze the frames of the video to determine at least whether the video is one of telecine, non-telecine progressive and non-telecine interlaced formatted, and to automatically reformat the video into a non-telecine progressive format if the video is determined to be one of telecine and non-telecine interlaced formatted.

In one embodiment, a 3:2 pull-down detection component of a video encoder uses motion vectors to determine whether a repeated field exists in a video sequence. The 3:2 pull-down detection component uses field motion vectors determined by a motion estimator and compares the field motion vectors to a threshold to determine whether a repeated field exists. If a repeated field exists, a video encoder can then eliminate the repeated field.

A method, apparatus, and computer software for applying in real time imperfections to streaming video which causes the resulting digital video to resemble cinema film.

A video processor, upstream of a frame rate converter determines video attribute data. This attribute data is formatted and passed along a channel to the frame rate converter. The frame rate converter extracts the attribute data from the channel for use in frame rate conversion. The frame rate converter may thus rely on attribute data obtained by the video processor, and need not re-analyze video frames.

In one embodiment, a video encoder having a first and second phase of motion estimation, and scene change and 3:2 pull-down detection components is provided. In another embodiment, the first phase of motion estimation determines a set of field motion vectors to execute the scene change and 3:2 pull-down detection components. In another embodiment, the scene change and 3:2 pull-down detection component, and the second phase of the motion estimation occur after the first phase of motion estimation.

The present invention provides a technique relating to a frame rate conversion which enables display of an image of extended definition by smoothening the movement of the image. Therefore, the invention fixes the direction of interpolation using information on a first frame which appeared before the insertion time of the interpolated frame, a second frame appeared before the first frame, a third frame appeared after the insertion time, and a fourth frame appeared after the third frame, based on the insertion time of the interpolated frame. The interpolated pixel is generated from pixels of the second frame and the third frame located in the direction of interpolation, and generates the interpolated frame. Then, the interpolated frame is inserted into the inputted image signal to convert the frame rate.