Gradation correcting apparatus for correcting luminance signal in accordance with detected color signal

• US 5,140,649 A
• Filed: 02/06/1991
• Issued: 08/18/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kageyama, Atsuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): COUSO, JOSE L
• Application Number:
  US07/651,619
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 382/18, 382/50, 382/51, 358/448, 358/453, 358/458, 358/462, 358/464, 358/465, 358/466
• US Class Current: 382/167
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6027 Correction or control of colour gradation or colour contrast H04N1/6058 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/77 Circuits for processing the brightness signal and the chrominance signal relative to each other, e.g. adjusting the phase of the brightness signal relative to the colour signal, correcting differential gain or differential phase circuits for matrixing H04N9/67

Abstract

A gradation correcting apparatus for correcting the gradation of a picture signal using histogram memories in the television image receiving machine, video tape recorder and so on. When color picture signals have been inputted, the picture portion having the particular color component is detected so as to digitially effect the gradation correcting operation in accordance with the color component.

Claims

1. A gradation correcting apparatus comprising a histogram memory for obtaining the histogram of an input luminance signal, said histogram shows how the pixels per screen are distributed in accordance with input luminance signal and one ordinary is added to histogram data as a summing data, an arithmetic unit for having the histogram data, outputted rom the histogram memory, as inputs so as to obtain the cumulative histogram, normalizing the maximum level of cumulative histogram so that it can be the same as that of an output signal, with look-up table memory which can store the normalized cumulative histogram data by corresponding address of the memory with the input luminance signal, the table memory will be referred by the corresponding input luminance signal and the data which is read from the memory is output data, an output circuit for having the output of the arithmetic unit as the input so as to synchronize the input luminance signal with the normalized arithmetic unit output, outputting the arithmetic unit output as the luminance signal data, in addition to taking into consideration the color signal corresponding to the luminance signal, a correction color detecting circuit for inputting at least one of the color signal and the luminance signal as the input, detecting the picture component having at least either of the particular color and luminance, a controlling circuit for correcting the summing data, to get more than "one" level, which is added to the histogram data to be retained in the histogram memory in accordance with the detection data to make the summing data of a particular color larger.

2. A gradation correcting apparatus described in accordance with claim 1, where the portion, larger in size, of the input luminance signal data to be inputted into the correction color detecting circuit is adapted to be detected by a comparing circuit.

3. A gradation correcting apparatus described in accordance with the claim 1, further comprising a means for detecting by a comparing circuit the portion, larger in size, of the input luminance signal data to be inputted into the correction color detecting circuit so as to output the correction color signal data, an addition summing data controller for inputting the signal of the output means so as to determine the summing data to be added to the histogram memory output data in accordance with the correcting color signal data.

4. The graduation correcting apparatus described in accordance with the claim 3, where the correction color detecting circuit and the addition summing data controller are adapted to respectively process the signal data with digital data.