Frozen field detection of formerly encoded video
AssigneeTektronix, Inc.
InventorsBozidar Janko, Steven D. Maurer
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Abstract
A method of detecting frozen fields in a video signal that has undergone analog encoding at some point along a transmission path acquires the video signal as a digital video signal. Every field of the digital video signal and its nth subsequent field are selected as a pair, where n is an integer multiple of the number of fields required for one cycle of color phasing in the analog encoding. The pairs of the selected fields are compared and, if the difference is essentially zero, a frozen field error is indicated.
Claims15
A method of detecting frozen fields in a video signal that has undergone analog encoding comprising the steps of:
- acquiring the video signal to produce a digitized video signal;
- pairing every field of the digitized video signal with an nth subsequent field of the digitized video signal having the same color phasing;
- comparing the paired fields to obtain a difference between the paired fields;
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- indicating frozen fields in the video signal if the difference is essentially zero.
An apparatus for detecting frozen fields in a video signal that has undergone analog encoding comprising:
- means for acquiring the video signal to produce a digitized video signal;
- means for pairing each field with an nth subsequent field of the digitized video signal having the same color phasing;
- means for comparing the paired fields to obtain a difference between the paired fields;
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- means for indicating frozen fields in the video signal if the difference is essentially zero.
An apparatus for detecting frozen fields in a video signal that has undergone analog encoding comprising:
- an acquisition system having as an input the video signal and producing as an output a digitized video signal;
- a selector having an input coupled to the output of the acquisition system so that every field is paired with an nth subsequent field of the digitized video signal having the same color phasing to produce at an output the pairs of fields of the digitized video signal;
- a comparator having an input coupled to the output of the selector and having an output providing a difference between the pairs of fields;
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- an indicator having an input coupled to the output of the comparator and having an output providing a frozen fields indicator for the video signal if the difference is essentially zero.
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