Image signal processing apparatus

• US 7,855,739 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2004
• Issued: 12/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries LLC (ON Semiconductor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakakuki, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz; David L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Quiett; Carramah J
• Application Number:
  US11/018,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20050174438A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,190 Days
• Field of Search: 348/242, 348/252, 348/254, 348/272, 348/441, 348/458, 348/241, 348/250, 348/256, 348/671, 348674-676, 382260-264
• US Class Current: 348/252
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0135 involving interpolation processes interpolation-based image scaling G06T3/4007; interpolation for video coding H04N19/587, H04N19/59

Abstract

In an image signal processing apparatus, line memories conventionally provided at a latter stage of the apparatus in order to convert a VGA image signal into a CIF image signal are eliminated. Image data of the VGA held in a unit of one line in plural line memories 60 provided in a digital signal processing circuit are weighted and added in a VLPF 62. A factor setting part 76 of the VLPF 62 changes weighting factors according to a positional relation between a position of a generation object line of the CIF and a line of the VGA. The weighting factors are determined so that a characteristic of trapping ½ of a vertical sampling frequency fv is also obtained. The VLPF 62 uses the weighting factors to trap fv/2, and changes the position of the vertical sampling point to a position of each line of the CIF image.

Claims

1. An image signal processing apparatus inputted with original image data in which plural color components periodically appear in each column of sampling points arranged in a matrix at a repetition period of n lines, and for generating target image data different from the original image data in a vertical sampling period, comprising:

a data holding part for holding plural lines of the inputted original image data, which are in a line range of a specified width and have a specified positional relation to each other, the original image data being image data that exists before color separation is performed;

a target image data generation part for generating the target image data at a target line of a position corresponding to the line range of the original image by weighting the original image data of the plural lines held in the data holding part for each line and adding the weighted image data of the plural lines; and

a factor setting part for setting, according to the target line, weighting factors for the respective lines used in the weighting and addition performed in the target image data generation part,

wherein the factor setting part determines the weighting factors on the basis of a trap characteristic of attenuating, in the target image data, a frequency component corresponding to 1/n of a vertical sampling frequency of the original image and the repetition period of the color components to perform format conversion before the color separation, and a mutual positional relation between a vertical sampling point corresponding to each line of the original image data held in the data holding part and a vertical sampling point corresponding to the target line.

2. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data holding part includes plural line memories, and at least one of the plural line memories holding the original image data of one line.

3. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the data holding part holds the original image data of the respective lines in the line range; and

the target image data generation part calculates luminance data by weighting and adding the original image data of the respective lines in the line range, and color component data by weighting and adding, on the basis of the weighting factors, respective lines at the repetition period at which a structure of the color components becomes the same in the original image data held in the data holding part.

4. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

n kinds of lines different in structure of the color components are arranged in a specified order in the repetition period; and

the factor setting part determines the weighting factors on the basis of a requirement that with respect to each of n kinds of common structure line groups made of the original image data of the plural lines, which are respectively held in the data holding part and are equal to each other in the color component structure, a barycenter of the weight factors becomes a position corresponding to the vertical sampling point corresponding to the target line, and sum values of the weighting factors in the respective common structure line groups become equal to each other.

5. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the factor setting part previously stores sets of the weighting factors, whose number corresponds to kinds of the positional relation between the vertical sampling point corresponding to each line of the original image data held in the data holding part and the vertical sampling point corresponding to the target line, judges the kind of the positional relation, and sets the set of the weighting factors corresponding to the kind into the target image data generation part.

6. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the factor setting part stores L sets of the weighting factors in a case where a value L times as large as the vertical sampling period of the target image data becomes the least common multiple of the vertical sampling period of the original image data and the vertical sampling period of the target image data.

7. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein:

the original image data is VGA image data;

the target image data is CIF image data; and

the factor setting part stores three sets of the weighting factors.

8. The image signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a signal processing part for performing color separation on the target image data.