Noise reducing system

• US 4,296,436 A
• Filed: 08/21/1979
• Issued: 10/20/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Achiha, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Murray, Richard
• Application Number:
  US06/068,527
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• Field of Search: 358/167, 358/166, 358/180, 358/183, 358/105
• US Class Current: 348/620
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/144 Movement detection for video coding H04N19/503; analysis of motion in general G06T7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/21 Circuitry for suppressing or minimising disturbance, e.g. moiré or halo

Abstract

A noise reducer wherein, depending upon the magnitude of a difference signal between an input television signal at the present time and a television signal recorded in a frame memory and with noise reduced, the mixing ratio between the present-time input signal and the television signal obtained from the frame memory is varied, and a part of the mixed signal is applied to the frame memory while the other part is used as a television signal with noise reduced; a noise reducing system wherein, in order to make the reduction of noise possible even for a moving object, a movement of a picture in one frame time is detected, the output of the frame memory is compensated for with the movement, and depending upon the magnitude of a difference signal between the present-time input television signal and the movement compensated output signal of the frame memory, the mixing ratio between the present-time input television signal and the compensated output signal of the frame memory is varied.

Claims

1. A noise reducing system comprising first circuit means for detecting a variation of a picture from an input picture signal and a past picture signal by mixing said signals with a selectively variable ratio;

second circuit means for controlling the mixing ratio between the input picture signal and the past picture signal in response to an output signal of said first circuit means; and

memory circuit means for delaying the output of said second circuit means a fixed time period to provide said past picture signal;

said second means comprising movement detector circuit means for detecting displacement of the variation of the picture per frame from the output of said memory circuit means and the output of said first circuit means, and movement compensator circuit means coupled between said memory circuit means and said first circuit means and controlled by an output of said movement detector circuit means for generating and providing to the first circuit means a past picture signal which corresponds to the same area as the input picture signal.

2. A noise reducing system according to claim 1, wherein said movement compensator circuit means comprises delay means for obtaining from the output of said memory circuit means a plurality of past picture signals each delayed a fixed short time with respect to each other, and switching circuit means which is changed-over by the output of said movement detector circuit means to select one of said plurality of past picture signals and to apply it to said first circuit means.

3. A noise reducing system according to claim 2, wherein said fixed short time is equal to a scanning time of one picture element of the picture.

4. A noise reducing system according to claim 2, wherein said movement detector circuit means comprises correlator means including a plurality of correlators for detecting correlations between the respective past picture signals and the input of said memory circuit, and selector means for detecting the correlator providing a maximum correlative output among said plurality of correlators and for driving said switching circuit means corresponding to the detected correlator.

5. A noise reducing system according to claim 1, wherein said movement compensator circuit means comprises an address counter which generates a first address signal for storing the mixed picture signal into a predetermined location of said memory circuit means, read means for generating a second address signal for reading out said picture signal stored in said memory circuit means, error detector circuit means for detecting the movement compensation error from the signal read out from said memory circuit means and said mixed picture signal, register means for storing a signal representing the movement in a frame period corrected with an output of said error detector circuit, and an adder which adds an output of said register means and the output of said read means and which provides the addition output as said second address signal.