Video signal processing apparatus, enhancement gain generating method, and enhanced gain generating program

• US 8,634,027 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2010
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ueyama, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): SATTI, HUMAM M
• Application Number:
  US12/846,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20110037901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 348/630, 348647-690, 382/264
• US Class Current: 348/630
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/208 for compensating for attenuation of high frequency components, e.g. crispening, aperture distortion correction
• 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 video signal processing apparatus includes: an enhancement gain generating section obtaining an enhancement gain for each pixel based on an luminance signal forming part of an input video signal and a predetermined enhancement gain; and an enhancing section performing a process of enhancing the luminance signal forming part of the input video signal based on the enhancement gain. The enhancement gain generating section includes a mean deviation calculating portion obtaining a mean deviation of luminance values of pixels included in a predetermined region centered at a pixel of interest that is the pixel for which the enhancement gain is to be obtained, a weighting coefficient generating portion generating a weighting coefficient for the pixel of interest according to the value of the mean deviation, and a multiplication portion multiplying the predetermined enhancement gain by the weighting coefficient to obtain the enhancement gain for the pixel of interest.

Claims

1. A video signal processing apparatus, comprising:

an enhancement gain generating section configured to obtain an enhancement gain for each pixel based on a luminance signal forming part of an input video signal and a predetermined enhancement gain; and

an enhancing section configured to perform a process of enhancing the luminance signal forming part of the input video signal based on the enhancement gain for each pixel obtained by the enhancement gain generating section, wherein

the enhancement gain generating section includes

a mean deviation calculating portion configured to obtain a mean deviation of luminance values of a plurality of pixels included in a predetermined region centered at a pixel of interest that is the pixel for which the enhancement gain is to be obtained,

a weighting coefficient generating portion configured to generate a weighting coefficient for the pixel of interest according to the value of the mean deviation calculated by the mean deviation calculating portion, and

a multiplication portion that multiplies the predetermined enhancement gain by the weighting coefficient generated by the weighting coefficient generating portion to obtain the enhancement gain for the pixel of interest.

2. The video signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the enhancement gain generating section includes:

a color region detecting portion configured to detect a region of a predetermined color in the input video signal based on a color signal forming part of the input video signal; and

an output selecting portion that picks up and outputs the enhancement gain obtained by the multiplication portion for the region of the predetermined color and that picks up and outputs the predetermined enhancement gain for a region other than the region of the predetermined color, depending on a detection signal from the color region detecting portion.

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

the enhancement gain generating section further includes

a smoothing portion that smoothes the mean deviation calculated by the mean deviation calculating portion in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction;

and

the weighting coefficient generating portion generates the enhancement gain for the pixel of interest according to the value of the mean deviation smoothed by the smoothing portion.

4. A method of generating an enhancement gain, comprising:

obtaining a mean deviation of luminance values of a plurality of pixels included in a predetermined region centered at a pixel of interest that is a pixel for which an enhancement gain is to be obtained;

generating a weighting coefficient for the pixel of interest according to the value of the mean deviation obtained by the obtaining; and

multiplying a predetermined enhancement gain by the weighting coefficient generated by the generating to obtain the enhancement gain for the pixel of interest.

5. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a program for causing a computer to execute a method of generating an enhancement gain, comprising:

obtaining a mean deviation of luminance values of a plurality of pixels included in a predetermined region centered at a pixel of interest that is a pixel for which an enhancement gain is to be obtained;

generating a weighting coefficient for the pixel of interest according to the value of the mean deviation obtained by the obtaining; and

multiplying a predetermined enhancement gain by the weighting coefficient generated by the generating to obtain the enhancement gain for the pixel of interest.