A New Intraframe Solution for HDTV to SDTV Down-Conversion

L. Albani, G. A. Mian, A. Rizzi

In the last few years, high-definition television (HDTV) technology has been successfully demonstrated, and some products are available for video production. Since HDTV is being introduced gradually, standard definition television (SDTV) will coexist for a long time, therefore, standard converters are necessary to interface equipment and systems of different formats. In this paper, a new solution is proposed for the conversion of interlaced video signals from a high-resolution format down to a low-resolution format, having good performance, low implementation cost, and high design flexibility. Such flexibility can be further exploited for an adaptive implementation.

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Published
1997-12
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J17159