Video signal processing apparatus and method for preventing a signal dropout

• US 6,023,303 A
• Filed: 01/30/1997
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kagawa, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESIR, JEAN WICEL
• Application Number:
  US08/791,226
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 348/616, 348/609, 348/607, 348/617, 348/665, 348/663, 386/2, 386/21, 386/22, 386/25, 386/47, 386/49, 386/113, 386/114, 386/115, 386/116
• US Class Current: 348/616
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7917 the interfering signals being cross-talk signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/882 the signal being a composite colour television signal

Abstract

An output signal of an 1H delaying circuit and a signal received from an input terminal are supplied to a subtracting circuit that forms a comb line filter. Thus, even if a dropout takes place in a luminance signal, not in a chroma signal, the chroma signal can be obtained from an output signal at intervals of 1H. When a dropout takes place, a limit operation of a feedback loop that forms a noise reduction circuit is stopped and the coefficient is increased. This process is performed with a dropout pulse that is delayed by 1H. Thus, the chroma signal can be obtained on the next line of the line having the dropout.

Claims

1. A video signal processing apparatus having a first line delaying circuit and a second line delaying circuit for processing a reproduction signal corresponding to an NTSC system, said apparatus comprising:

a switch circuit with first and second input terminals, said reproduction signal corresponding to the NTSC system being input to the first input terminal, an output signal of said first line delaying circuit being supplied to the second input terminal;

a comb line filter for subtracting the reproduction signal from an output signal of the first line delaying circuit; and

a feedback type noise reduction circuit for extracting noise components from the reproduction signal and a reproduction chroma signal supplied through said second line delaying circuit, feeding back the noise components, and removing the noise components from the reproduction chroma signal,

wherein when a dropout takes place, said switch circuit is connected to the first line delaying circuit so that the first line delaying circuit holds the reproduction signal that does not have the dropout,

wherein said comb line filter subtracts an output signal of the first line delaying circuit from the reproduction signal that is input to the first terminal of said switch circuit,

wherein an amplitude limiting signal element and an attenuating signal element of the feedback loop of said feedback type noise reduction circuit are removed; and

wherein a chroma signal occurring in the next line of the reproduction signal is obtained when a dropout in a luminance signal in a current line of the reproduction signal occurs.

2. The video signal processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the amplitude limiting signal element and the attenuating signal element in the feedback loop of said feedback type noise reduction circuit are controlled by a dropout pulse that is delayed by at least one line.

3. A video signal processing apparatus having a first line delaying circuit and a second line delaying circuit for processing a reproduction signal corresponding to an NTSC system or a PAL system, said apparatus comprising:

a switch circuit with first and second input terminals, said reproduction signal corresponding to the NTSC system or the PAL system being input to the first input terminal, an output signal of said first line delaying circuit being supplied to the second input terminal;

a comb line filter for subtracting the reproduction signal from an output signal of the first line delaying circuit in the NTSC system or for subtracting the reproduction signal from a reproduction signal supplied through the first line delaying circuit and a second line delaying circuit in the PAL system; and

a feedback type noise reduction circuit for extracting noise components from the reproduction signal and a reproduction chroma signal supplied through said second line delaying circuit, feeding back the noise components, and removing the noise components from the reproduction chroma signal in the NTSC system or for extracting noise components from the reproduction signal and a reproduction chroma signal supplied through the first line delaying circuit and the second line delaying circuit, feeding back the noise components, and removing the noise components from the reproduction chroma signal in the PAL system,

wherein when a dropout takes place, said switch circuit is connected to the first line delaying circuit so that the first line delaying circuit holds the reproduction signal that does not have the dropout, said comb line filter subtracts an output signal of the first line delaying circuit from the reproduction signal that is input to the first terminal of said switch circuit, and an amplitude limiting signal element and an attenuating signal element of the feedback loop of said feedback type noise reduction circuit are removed in the NTSC system, and

wherein when a dropout takes place, said switch circuit is connected to the first line delaying circuit so that the first line delaying circuit holds the reproduction signal that does not have the dropout, and an amplitude limiting signal element and an attenuating signal element of the feedback loop that forms said feedback type noise reduction circuit are removed in the PAL system.

4. The video signal processing apparatus as set forth in claim 3,

wherein the amplitude limiting signal element and the attenuating signal element in the feedback loop of said feedback type noise reduction circuit are controlled by a dropout pulse that is delayed by at least one line.

5. A video signal processing method used with first and second line delaying circuits for processing a reproduction signal, the method comprising the steps of:

switching between first and second input terminals to which said reproduction signal and an output signal of said first line delaying circuit are input, respectively;

subtracting the reproduction signal from an output signal of the first line delaying circuit;

feeding back noise components from the reproduction signal output from the second line delaying circuit to remove the noise components from a reproduction chroma signal of the reproduction signal; and

obtaining a chroma signal occurring in the next line of the reproduction signal when a dropout in a luminance signal of a reproduction signal in a current line occurs.

6. The video signal processing method as set forth in claim 5, further comprising the step of controlling the feeding back of the noise components in accordance with a dropout pulse that is delayed by at least one line.