Masking of Chrominance Pattern Movement and its Application to Color Television Signal Transmission

This article reports on the results of psychophysical experiments indicating that when the human color-viewing mechanism reacts to a moving pattern, the color image is characterized by the masking effect of the luminance component on the chrominance component. Patterns with lower variations in color saturation are more likely to be masked, and yellow and blue are more likely to be masked than red and green. In order to apply this conclusion to compress the bandwidth of the color television signal, a technique of transmitting the color difference signal on every two fields is proposed. The effects of this technique were confirmed in a simulated experiment.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1984-06

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J03549