WO1992005661A1 - Method and apparatus for improving vertical sharpness of picture tubes - Google Patents
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- WO1992005661A1 WO1992005661A1 PCT/EP1991/001702 EP9101702W WO9205661A1 WO 1992005661 A1 WO1992005661 A1 WO 1992005661A1 EP 9101702 W EP9101702 W EP 9101702W WO 9205661 A1 WO9205661 A1 WO 9205661A1
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- H04N3/00—Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages
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- the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for improving vertical sharpness of images displayed on pic ⁇ ture tubes.
- Fig. 1 illustrates this effect.
- the horizontal axis 10 scales the vertical line distances and the vertical axis scales the brightness amplitude.
- a high brightness spot 12 has a signif ⁇ icantly increased diameter compared to a low brightness spot 13.
- the sharpness of a transition between bright and dark areas is therefore impaired due to an overlapping of the bright spot 22 into a dark region as shown in Fig. 2.
- the dashed line 25 shows the overall response and the hatched area is a region of impairment 24, whereby line 26 marks the position of the edge in the picture.
- An improvement in the apparent sharpness of a vertical tran ⁇ sition may be gained by modifying the vertical deflection of a TV receiver such that, at vertical transitions, the line on the bright side of the transition is deflected away from the transition region as shown in Fig. 3.
- This additional deflection may be provided by means of an additional amplifi ⁇ er and deflection coil on the TV tube.
- the amount of deflec ⁇ tion illustrated in Fig. 3 is of the order of one scan line, but may be less depending upon the characteristics of the display tube.
- the amount of deflection may also be varied depending upon the characteristics of the video signal, but primarily additional deflections are carried out with a fixed distance either up or down.
- Fig. 5 is a block diagram of a control signal genera ⁇ tor; shows waveforms associated with Fig. 5; is an alternative implementation using one full and one 1-bit line delay; shows the principle modifications for 4-(or greater-) level comparisons; shows a block diagram of an improved control signal generator.
- This method also improves picture quality if the field fre ⁇ quency is higher than 50 or 60 Hz.
- FIG. 4 An example of a vertical cross-section through an image is shown in Figure 4.
- Each line and point represents the ampli ⁇ tude of the video signal at one pixel on each line 1 - 14 of the cross-section. It can be seen that in order to improve the display the scan on lines 3, 7, and 9 should be deflect ⁇ ed in the direction indicated by the arrows. Transitions al ⁇ so exist at lines 11 and 13, but as this represents a high vertical frequency, no improvement can be made by modify ⁇ ing the scan, and so the lines should remain undeflected.
- FIG. 5 A block diagram of a system to implement this processing is shown in Fig. 5.
- the incoming video signal 50 is passed through two line de ⁇ lays 511 and 512 to give access to the line following (at the input of the first line delay 511) and to the line pre ⁇ ceding the current line.
- the line preceding is available at the output of the second line delay 512 and the current line is available at the output of the first line delay 511.
- Differences are formed between the current line and the fol ⁇ lowing line and between the current line and the previous line. These differences are then passed to a first compara ⁇ tor 521 and to a second comparator 522, respectively, where they are thresholded and converted to binary signals A and B. Then they are combined in a logic circuit 53 to form an output control signal C.
- the video signal at the output of the first line delay 511 is fed to an amplifier or multiplier 54, respectively.
- the gain of this amplifier 54 is controlled by signal C. If C is "0”, the gain of amplifier 54 is 1.0, if C is not "0", the gain is about 0.9 in order to reduce the brightness at its output 55.
- Signal C is also directed to a deflection circuit 56 which supplies a vertical deflection coil 57.
- Figure 6 shows the values of the signals through the process ⁇ ing for the example cross-section of Figure 4, at the point when this signal 61 appears at the output of the first line delay 511.
- the dif ⁇ ference signals 64 and 65 after thresholding appear at points A and B.
- point A indicates a signal 66 of lines which should be shifted upwards and point B indicates a sig ⁇ nal 67 of lines which should be shifted downwards. Both sig ⁇ nals 66 and 67 indicate the same lines in the area of high detail.
- the signals 66 and 67 are applied to a look-up table in logic circuit 53. The output of this circuit is +1 if only signal A is active or -1 if only signal B is active. If both signals A and B are "0" (no edge detected), or both "1" (a single bright line), the output is "0" as no improvement can be made by modifying the deflection.
- control signal C deflects the scanning beam, this results in perceivable increase in brightness on the display for the part of the image for which the original and deflect ⁇ ed parts of scan lines overlap.
- a reduction of the amplitude of the video signal within switched gain amplifier 54, 74 may be made when the control signal C is active. If the reduction in brightness is too great, visible edge busyness results along contours near the threshold. A value of about 0.9 appears to provide a good compromise between edge busyness and a suitably reduced in ⁇ crease in brightness of the overlapping parts of the scan.
- the control signal C can be made to have an amplitude depending on the video contour. Then the output of the comparators 521, 721, 522, 722 is a multi-level signal, which is applied to the logic circuit 53, 73.
- An example transfer characteristic of a 4-level comparator is shown in Figure 8a.
- the 1-bit line delay 712 in Figure 7 now requires the number of bits neces ⁇ sary to represent the comparator output.
- the look-up table in logic circuit 53, 73 is now expanded and is shown in tabu- lar form in Figure 8b. To illustrate the principle, compara ⁇ tor outputs with 2-bit resolution are shown.
- the control signal C increases in proportion with the comparator's values for the case of a single edge. In the case of high frequency detail (output from both comparators at A and B) the control signal is inhibited in the normal way.
- Control signal C can also be obtained by using the informa ⁇ tion available during a field rate upconversion process.
- Fig. 9 depicts a block diagram on basis of the block diagram of Fig. 5.
- Incoming video signal 90, line delays 911 and 912, comparators 921 and 922, logic circuit 93, amplifier 94, deflection circuit 96 and deflection coil 97 respect the corresponding ,circuits and signals of Fig. 5.
- the output control signal C generated in logic circuit 93 is fed also to a second logic circuit 98 and to staircase cir ⁇ cuit 99.
- Deflection circuit 96 is not controlled by output control signal C but by the according output signal OUT of staircase circuit 99.
- the inputs of comparators 922 and 921, respectively, are connected to the inputs INI and IN2, re ⁇ spectively, of second logic circuit 98.
- the out ⁇ put of second line delay 912 is fed to a third comparator 981 and input video signal 90 is fed to a fourth comparator 982.
- each of these comparators is con ⁇ nected to a voltage INGREY.
- the output signals of these comparators are inputted to an AND circuit 983 which is con ⁇ nected to a switch 984.
- the output signal of switch 984 is also fed to staircase circuit 99.
- the applied additional vertical deflection may destroy the equally spaced scanning grid and introduces holes at the darker side of a transition after the postfil- tering by the beam current. Obviously these holes remain unvisible if at the darker side of the edge the beam current remains nearly zero. But for grey levels the holes coming up may be annoying. This effect becomes even more disturbing if the vertical transition extends not over one but two lines as it is the case after a vertical upconversion by an inter ⁇ polating filter. With an interpolated value halfway between the value of both sides of the edge corresponds a smaller cross section of the electron beam and therefore less over ⁇ lapping with the adjacent lines.
- an edge preserving filter e.g. a median filter
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CA002089357A CA2089357C (en) | 1990-09-14 | 1991-09-06 | Method and apparatus for improving vertical sharpness of picture tubes |
EP91915439A EP0548113B1 (en) | 1990-09-14 | 1991-09-06 | Method and apparatus for improving vertical sharpness of picture tubes |
DE69123455T DE69123455T2 (en) | 1990-09-14 | 1991-09-06 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING VERTICAL SHARPNESS OF PICTURES |
FI931119A FI931119A (en) | 1990-09-14 | 1993-03-12 | OVER ANCHORING FOER FOERBAETTRING AV LODRAETA UPPLOESNINGSFOERMAOGAN AV BILDROER |
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