US 5,497,192 AGranted

Video signal processing apparatus for correcting for camera vibrations using CCD imager with a number of lines greater than the NTSC standard

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorShigeki Ishizuka

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Abstract

A video signal processing apparatus for correcting vibration effects in a video camera that has a CCD image pickup device having a number of lines greater than the number of lines of the standard NTSC television system. The lines used to generate the image are shifted during the vertical blanking interval to correct for vibrations of the video camera, and the overflow charges which are caused by transferring the CCD image pickup device at a high speed during the blanking period are absorbed into a semiconductor drain element arranged in parallel with the horizontal transfer register of the CCD image pickup device. Defective pixels in the image pickup device are compensated by storing the addresses of defective pixels and interpolating at those positions, during vibration correction the addresses of the defective pixels are shifted to correspond to the amount of vibration correction. A read clock and a write clock for the line memory that is used to perform the vibration correction in the horizontal direction are set to line-locked clock signals of different frequencies, thereby preventing deterioration of the picture quality upon vibration correction. The window used to detect optical information for automatic camera control is also shifted in accordance with the shift amount used to perform vibration correction.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A video signal processing apparatus for correcting vibration in a video signal, comprising:

image pickup means having a number of lines in a vertical direction that is greater than a number of lines in a television standard system of the video signal and thereby forming a number of surplus lines;
vibration detecting means for detecting an amount of vibration in horizontal and vertical directions relative to said image pickup means;
high-speed transfer control means for transferring charges on said image pickup means at a high speed during a video signal vertical blanking period within a range of the number of surplus lines equal to a difference between the number of lines of said image pickup means and the number of lines of the television standard system in response to the vibration amount in the vertical direction detected by said vibration detecting means and for correcting the vibration in the vertical direction said high speed being relative to a speed of transferring charges on said image pickup means during the vertical blanking period outside said range of the number of surplus lines;
line memory means containing a video signal having vibration in the vertical direction corrected, said line memory means being written to by a write clock signal and read out by a read clock signal, in which said read clock signal has a frequency lower than a frequency of the write clock signal, thereby performing a magnification in the horizontal direction of the video signal;
and
line memory control means for line-locking the write clock and the read clock, for setting a frequency ratio of the write clock and the read clock in accordance with a magnification ratio in the horizontal direction, and for shifting the reading position or writing position of said line memory means, thereby correcting vibration in the horizontal direction.

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A video signal processing apparatus for correcting vibration effects in a video signal produced by a video camera, comprising:

image pickup means having a number of horizontal lines arranged in a vertical direction that is greater than a number of lines in a television standard system of the video signal produced by the video camera and thereby producing a number of surplus lines;
vibration detecting means for detecting an amount of vibration in the horizontal and vertical directions;
high-speed transfer control means for transferring data from said image pickup means at a high speed during a vertical blanking period of the video signal within a range of the number of surplus line which is equal to a difference between the number of lines of said image pickup means and the number of line of the television system in accordance with a vibration in the vertical direction detected by said vibration detecting means and for correcting the vibration in the vertical direction said high speed being relative to a speed of transferring charges on said image pickup means during the vertical blanking period outside of said range of the number of surplus lines;
line memory means connecting to receive a video signal after vibration in the vertical direction is corrected, said line memory means being written to by a write clock signal and read out by a read clock signal, wherein said read clock signal has a frequency lower than a frequency of the write clock signal, thereby performing an enlargement in the horizontal direction of the video signal;
line memory control means for correcting the vibration in the horizontal direction by shifting a reading position or a writing position of said line memory means;
optical detecting means for detecting optical parameters in a window formed relative to said number of horizontal lines of said image pickup means;
and
window setting means for correcting the position of said window in accordance with the vibration amount so as not to change the relative position for the video signal after the vibration has been corrected.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/395,900Filed 28 Feb 1995 · division
Priority: JP 4-1748969 Jun 1992
Granted: 5 Mar 1996
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 23/6812
Motion detection: based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors
H04N 23/68
Control of cameras or camera modules: for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
H04N 23/683
Vibration or motion blur correction: performed by a processor, e.g. controlling the readout of an image memory
H04N 23/6842
Performed by controlling the image sensor readout, e.g. by controlling the integration time: by controlling the scanning position, e.g. windowing