COMPRESSION OF THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF VIDEO SIGNALS

Patent №

US 4,516,167

Granted

1985-05-07

Filed 1982

Owner

RCA CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06445479

Video signals are subjected to two-dimensional high-pass spatial filtering as a first step in reducing their dynamic range. Then, in a second step of the compression process, differentiation spikes generated in response to edges of large objects in the original video signals are suppressed. This is done in real time using an adaptive non-linear amplifier, the gains of which in a number of amplitude zones are controlled by a histogram of the high-pass-filtered video signals.

AI classification

Vision0.99
Planning0.95
AI hardware0.02
Natural language0.01
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

RCA CORPORATION

assignment · 40730442

Assignors

DION, DONALD F., CANTELLA, MICHAEL J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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