Patent Grant
9756305
This application is a U.S. National Stage of PCT application PCT/KR2015/001911 filed in the Korean language on Feb. 27, 2015, and entitled “M
Example embodiments relate to video reception technology, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for receiving an analog video signal.
A video transmission method may include a method of using an open circuit and a method of using a closed circuit. Since a video transmission method using an open circuit is to transmit video signals to a plurality of unspecific users, a standardized scheme may be employed to transmit a video. On the other hand, since a video transmission method using a closed circuit is to transmit a video signal only to a specific use only the specific user may be aware of a video signal transmission scheme.
In general, a composite signal used in a closed-circuit system follows a standard method about an analog color television (TV). Since the standard method uses a limited frequency band, an alternating color issue and a luminance inclusion issue may occur.
Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2006-0063723, published on Dec. 5, 2005, discloses the invention relating to a video signal processing device and a video signal transmission method. This invention may be applied to display a national television system committee (NTSC)-based video signal, thereby effectively avoiding displaying of an unnatural edge and efficiently processing a video signal having a relatively high frame frequency through a simple configuration. In the published invention, a center value of a temporal axis in a single frame of a color difference signal is set to be closest to a center value of a temporal axis in a plurality of flames of a luminance signal corresponding to the color difference signal, and the single frame of the color difference signal is allocated to the plurality of frames of the luminance signal.
Example embodiments provide an apparatus and method for receiving a video.
Example embodiments also provide an apparatus and method for converting a received analog video signal to a digital video signal.
According to an aspect, there is provided a video reception method including receiving an analog video signal, determining a format of the analog video signal, converting the analog video signal to a digital video signal based on a sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format, separating the digital video signal into a luminance signal and a color difference signal using an adaptive comb filter, and reconfiguring the digital video signal based on the luminance signal and the color difference signal.
The comb filter may be adaptively adjusted based on a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format.
The video reception method may further include removing noise from at least one of the luminance signal and the color difference signal.
The removing of the noise may include removing the noise using a low pass filter.
The determining of the format may include sampling the analog video signal at a preset sampling frequency, determining the format of the analog video signal based on a result of the sampling, and resetting the sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format as a basic sampling frequency.
The determining of the format of the analog video signal based on the result of the sampling may include determining the format of the analog video signal based on the number of sampled vertical lines and the number of horizontal samples.
The preset sampling frequency may be 74.25 MHz.
The determining of the format may farther include determining a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format.
The comb filter may be adaptively adjusted based on the burst frequency.
The reconfiguring of the digital video signal may include reconfiguring the digital video signal by merging the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
The merging may indicate alternately merging a sample of the color difference signal and a sample of the luminance signal.
The reconfiguring of the digital video signal may include reconfiguring the digital video signal as embedded data based on the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
According to another aspect, there is provided a video reception apparatus including a communicator configured to receive an analog video signal, and a processor configured to determine a format of the analog video signal, to convert the analog video signal to a digital video signal based on a sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format, to separate the digital video signal into a luminance signal and a color difference signal using an adaptive comb filter, and to reconfigure the digital video signal based on the luminance signal and the color difference signal.
The comb filter may be adaptively adjusted based on a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format.
The processor may be configured to sample the analog video signal at a preset sampling frequency, to determine the format of the analog video signal based on a result of the sampling, and to reset the sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format as a basic sampling frequency.
The processor may be configured to determine the format of the analog video signal based on the number of sampled vertical lines and the number of horizontal samples.
The processor may be configured to determine a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format.
The comb filter may be adaptively adjusted based on the burst frequency.
The processor may be configured to reconfigure the digital video signal by merging the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
The merging may indicate alternately merging, a sample of the color difference signal and a sample of the luminance signal.
The processor may be configured to reconfigure the digital video signal as embedded data based on the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
According to example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus and method for receiving a multi-resolution analog video signal.
Also according to example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus and method for converting an analog video signal to a digital video signal.
Hereinafter, some example embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals hi the drawings refer to like elements throughout the present specification.
Various, modifications may be made to the example embodiments. However, it should be understood that these embodiments are not construed as limited to the illustrated forms and include all changes, equivalents or alternatives within the idea and the technical scope of this disclosure.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms “a,” “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprise/include” and/or “have,” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components or combinations thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms including technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which these example embodiments belong. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.
Regarding the reference numerals assigned to the elements in the drawings, it should be noted that the same elements will be designated by the same reference numerals, wherever possible, even though they are shown in different drawings. Also, in the description of embodiments, detailed description of well-known related structures or functions will be omitted when it is deemed that such description will cause ambiguous interpretation of the present disclosure.
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The video transmission apparatus 110 may generate a digital video signal using a camera for photographing a video. The video transmission apparatus 110 may convert the generated digital video signal to an analog video signal, and may transmit the converted analog video signal. In this manner, an existing system installed to transmit a standard definition may be used as is.
The video transmission apparatus 110 may adjust an analog video signal to be generated, based on a resolution of a photographed digital video. For example, the video transmission apparatus 110 may generate an analog video signal corresponding to a resolution of high definition (HD) or full HD (FHD).
The video reception apparatus 130 may receive the analog video signal from the video transmission apparatus 110. The video reception apparatus 130 may determine a format of the analog video signal from the received analog video signal. The video reception apparatus 130 may convert the analog video signal to the digital video signal based on the determined format.
A method of receiving, at the video reception apparatus 130, the analog video signal is described with reference to
Referring to
The communicator 210 may be connected to another apparatus to transmit and receive data. For example, the communicator 210 may receive an analog video signal from the video transmission apparatus 110.
The processor 220 may process data received at the communicator 210, or may process data stored in the storage 230.
The storage 230 may receive data received at the communicator 210, or may store data processed at the processor 220.
The communicator 210, the processor 220, and the storage 230 are described with reference to
Referring to
According to an aspect, the communicator 210 may receive an analog video signal from the video transmission apparatus 110 through the cable 120.
The received analog video signal may be a signal that is adaptively converted based on a resolution of a digital video.
In operation 320, the processor 220 may determine a format of the analog video signal. The format of the analog video signal may indicate a resolution of a digital video signal applied to the analog video signal. A method of determining the format of the analog video signal is described with reference to
In operation 330, the processor 220 may convert the analog video signal to the digital video signal.
According, to an aspect, the processor 220 may convert the analog video signal to the digital video signal based on a sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format.
In operation 340, the processor 220 may separate the digital video signal into a luminance signal and a color difference signal. For example, the processor 220 may separate the digital video signal into a channel of the luminance signal and a channel of the color difference signal.
According to an aspect, the processor 220 may separate the digital video signal into the luminance signal and the color difference signal using an adaptive comb filter. A method of separating the digital video signal into the luminance signal and the color difference signal using a comb filter is described with reference to
In operation 350, the processor 220 may remove noise from the luminance signal and the color difference signal. For example, the processor 220 may remove noise from at least one of the luminance signal and the color difference signal.
The processor 220 may remove noise from the luminance signal and the color difference signal using a low pass filter. A pass band of a lox pass filter used to remove noise of the luminance signal and a pass band of a low pass filter used to remove noise of the color difference signal may be set to differ from each other.
In operation 360, the processor 220 may reconfigure the digital video signal based on the luminance signal and the color difference signal. For example, the processor 220 may reconfigure the digital video signal by merging the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
A method of reconfiguring the digital video signal is described with reference to
The video reception apparatus 130 may display the reconfigured digital video signal using a display.
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A vertical blanking interval (VBI) may include the pre-equalizing pulse, the serration pulse, the post-equalizing pulse, and the blank line.
For example, each of the pre-equalizing pulse, the serration pulse, and the post-equalizing pulse may include three lines. The VBI may include 20 or more lines.
A length of an active line may vary based on a resolution of a digital video. For example, the length of the active line may increase according to an increase in the resolution.
Table 1 shows the number of vertical timing lines, a frame rate, and a system frequency according to a total resolution.
Referring to
A horizontal active start interval B may be a section from a horizontal reference to a start point of an active area.
A burst start interval C may be a section from the horizontal reference to a start point of burst.
A burst width D may be a section from the start point of burst to an end point of burst.
Table 2 shows a horizontal timing structure of the analog video signal according to a resolution.
Operation 320 of
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In operation 620, the processor 220 may determine a format of the analog video signal based on a result of the sampling. For example, the format may be a resolution.
According to an aspect, the processor 220 may determine the format of the analog video signal based on the number of sampled vertical lines and the number of horizontal samples.
Table 3 shows a format of a signal according to the sampling result.
The horizontal interval may indicate the total horizontal timing A of
In operation 630, the processor 220 may reset the sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format as a basic sampling frequency.
Table 4 shows the sampling frequency corresponding to the determined format.
In operation 330 of
In operation 640, the processor 220 may determine a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format. The burst frequency may be determined in advance in correspondence to the determined format.
The burst frequency may be used to adjust a comb filter.
The burst frequency may be a subcarrier frequency.
The frequency characteristic of the comb filter may be similar to a frequency characteristic of a band split filter.
A signal pass band of the comb filter may be divided based on a burst frequency.
When a format of an analog video signal is determined, the processor 220 may adaptively adjust the comb filter based on a burst frequency corresponding to the determined format.
The processor 220 may separate a digital video signal into a luminance signal and a color difference signal using the adjusted comb filter.
A single line of a reconfigured digital video signal may include an end of active video signal (EAV) code, blanking data, a start of active video signal (SAV) code, and active data.
An area that includes the EAV code, the blanking data, and the SAVE code may correspond to a portion that excludes an active area from a section of an analog video signal.
An area of the active data may correspond to the active area in the section of the analog video signal.
The processor 220 may reconfigure the digital video signal by merging a color difference signal and a luminance signal.
According to an aspect, the processor 220 may alternately merge a sample of the color difference signal and a sample of the luminance signal. For example, when YCSYCR is configured based on 4:2:2, the active area may be reconfigured in order of CB, Y, CR, and Y. Here, Y may be the sample of the luminance signal, and each of CB and CR may be the sample of the color difference signal.
According to another aspect, the processor 220 may reconfigure the digital video signal as embedded data based on the color difference signal and the luminance signal.
The processor 220 may include an analog to digital converter (ADC), a video reader, a clock distributor, an adaptive comb filter, a luminance signal processor, a color difference signal processor, and an output formatter.
The ADC may convert an analog video signal to a digital video signal based on a sampling frequency. The ADC may sample the analog video signal.
The video reader may set a sampling frequency appropriate for the analog video signal as a basic sampling frequency based on a result of the sampling. The video reader may determine a burst frequency and a format based on the basic sampling frequency.
The clock distributor may apply the set basic sampling frequency to the ADC.
The ADC may sample the analog video signal based on the applied basic sampling frequency.
The adaptive comb filter may adaptively adjust a frequency characteristic of the adaptive comb filter based on the format and the burst frequency. The adaptive comb filter may separate the digital video signal or a sampled value into a luminance signal and a color difference signal.
The luminance signal processor may remove noise of the luminance signal.
The color difference signal processor may remove noise of the color difference signal.
The output formatter may reconfigure the digital video signal based on the luminance signal and the color difference signal. The output formatter may output a clock and data of a digital video. For example, the digital data and the clock may be in an embedded type.
The units and/or modules described herein may be implemented using hardware components, software components, and/or combination of the hardware components and the software components. For example, the apparatuses and the hardware components described herein may be implemented using, for example, a processor, a controller and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA), a programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or one or more general-purpose computers or specific-purpose computers such as any other device capable of responding to and executing instructions in a defined manner. The processing device may run an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications that run on the OS. The processing device also may access, store, manipulate, process, and create data in response to execution of the software. For purpose of simplicity the description of a processing device is used as singular; however; one skilled in the art will be appreciated that a processing device may include multiple processing elements and/or multiple types of processing elements. For example, a processing device may include multiple processors or a processor and a controller, in addition, different processing configurations are possible, such a parallel processors.
The methods according to the above-described example embodiments may be recorded in non-transitory computer-readable media including program instructions to implement various operations of the above-described example embodiments. The media may also include, alone or in combination with the program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like. The program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of example embodiments, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of non-transitory computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROM discs, and DVDs; magneto-optical media such as optical media and floptical disks; and hardware devices that are specially configured to store and perform program instructions, such as read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include both machine code, such as produced by a compiler, and files containing higher level code that may be executed by the computer using an interpreter. The above-described hardware devices may be configured to act as one or more software modules in order to perform the operations of the above-described example embodiments, or vice versa.
A number of example embodiments have been described above. Nevertheless, it should be understood that various modifications may be made to these example embodiments. For example, suitable results may be achieved if the described techniques are performed in a different order and/or if components in a described system, architecture, device, or circuit are combined in a different manner and/or replaced or supplemented by other components or their equivalents. Accordingly, other implementations are within the scope of the following claims.
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