Noise reduction system for color television signal

• US 5,161,018 A
• Filed: 04/29/1991
• Issued: 11/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsunaga, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Tommy P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Murrell, Jeffrey S.
• Application Number:
  US07/691,829
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 358/174, 358/176, 358/177, 358/167, 358/36, 358/11, 358/140, 358/133, 358/105, 358/166, 358/37
• US Class Current: 348/620
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/21 Circuitry for suppressing or minimising disturbance, e.g. moiré or halo

Abstract

A noise reducer of a signal receiving circuit system applying different manners of signal processing to moving video image and still video image regions includes a noise reduction circuit detecting a two-frame difference signal of a received video signal and deducting the two-frame difference signal from the received video signal thereby reducing remaining noise in the still video image region, in which the proportion of the two-frame difference signal to be deducted in the noise reduction circuit is controlled by the noise level of the received video signal and a signal obtained in accordance with a detected quantity of motion in the received video signal.

Claims

1. A noise reducer for processing a received video signal comprising:

detection means for detecting a difference between the received video signal and two-frame delayed signals of said received video signal and producing a two-frame difference signal;

noise reduction means for deducting remaining noise from said two-frame difference signal and from the received signal in response to control signals and producing respective noise reduced signals;

subtraction means for subtracting the noise reduced signal based on said two-frame difference signal from the noise reduced signal based on said received signal and producing a still video image signal having a noise component thereof suppressed;

noise level detection means for detecting a noise level of an original video signal before transmission based on said two-frame difference signal;

motion level detection means for detecting a motion condition of said received video signal; and

control means for producing said control signals controlling the deducted ratio of said two-frame difference signal obtained by said detection means and the received video signal within said noise reduction means, said control signals being generated in accordance with said noise level of the original video signal detected by said noise level detection means and said motion condition detected by said motion level detector means; and

wherein said noise level detection means includes an absolute value circuit receiving said two-frame difference signal and producing an output fed to a hold circuit for holding said output in response to a signal from said motion level detection means representing zero motion, the output of said hold circuit representing a detected average level of the noise component in the original signal and being fed to a nonlinear amplifier for amplifying the detected average level of the noise component in response to a signal representing a noise level of the system transmitting the received video signal and producing said signal generated in accordance with the detected noise level of the original signal fed to said control means.

2. A noise reducer according to claim 1, wherein

said detection means includes two serially connected frame delay circuits for producing said two-frame difference signal that represents a noise component superimposed on said received video signal.

3. A noise reducer according to claim 2, wherein

said motion level detection means is supplied with a one-frame-delayed signal from a first of said two frame delay circuits and a two-frame-delayed signal from the second of said two frame delay circuits.

4. A noise reducer according to claim 1, wherein

said received video signal is a television signal of the MUSE system.

5. A noise reducer according to claim 1, wherein said noise reduction means includes a first coefficient multiplier for reducing noise in said difference signal in response to a first one of said control signals and a second coefficient multiplier for reducing noise in the received video signal in response to a second one of said control signals.