Device for the composition of color component signals from luminance and chrominance signals and video display device comprising the application thereof
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorGerard Chauvel
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Abstract
A color signal is encoded into luminance and chrominance signals. Relationships between the luminance and chrominance signals, and the color components are computed. A color component signal is generated by matrixing these relationships. In addition, a signal processor may be used to combine other video images with the color component signal.
Claims9
A device for composition of colour component signals from luminance and chrominance signals, comprising means for computing relationships relating said luminance and chrominance signals with the colour components derived therefrom, characterized in that said computing means are logic means comprising means (40, 41, 42) for decoding said luminance and chrominance signals, and means (43, 44, 45, 46) for matrixing said decoded luminance and chrominance signals in accordance with relations established between said luminance and chrominance signals on one hand, and said colour components on the other hand.
A device for displaying video images on a screen (17) comprising a composite memory in which are stored the image data to be displayed for each raster, said composite memory being connected to a video display processor (21) controlling said screen, to a central processing unit (10) and to an address processor (19) to permit the composition of the image by means of said memory, the extraction of data from said memory relating to the dots to be displayed being effected under the control of a time base (25) in synchronism with the scanning of the screen and of a device (24) controlling dynamic access to the memory, said display processor (21) comprising a palette memory (28) connected to said screen (17) and containing colour codes to be displayed on said screen, a first group of shift-registers (27) controlled by said time base (25) and selectively containing in the course of the display of a group of dots to be displayed, binary colour values contituting addresses for said palette memory (28), a second group of registers (26) adapted to temporarily store the colour data of a group of dots to be displayed after that whose data is in said shift-registers, characterized in that said device for displaying video images further comprises a photographic unit (33) comprising a composition device for composing colour component signals by matrixing decoded luminance and chrominance signals with colour components derived therefrom, adapted to ensure the display on the screen (11) in a photographic mode, said photographic unit (33) being connected to the palette memory (28) for determining the display mode to be achieved.
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