Philips Semiconductors
Economical video processing IC
(ECOBENDIC)
Preliminary specification
SAA4970T
PEAKING
Peaking is implemented to obtain a higher gain in the
middle and upper ranges of the luminance bandwidth.
The filtering is an addition of:
• the original signal
• the original signal band-passed with centre
frequency = 1⁄4fs
• the original signal high-passed with maximum gain at
frequency = 1⁄2fs.
The band-passed and high-passed signals are weighted
with factors 0, 1⁄8, 1⁄4 and 1⁄2. The impulse response
becomes [−α, −β, 1 + 2α + 2β, −β, −α], where α is the
band-pass weighting factor and β the high-pass weighting
factor.
Coring is added to obtain no gain for low amplitudes in the
(high-pass + band-pass) signal, which is then considered
to be noise. Coring levels can be programmed as 0 (off),
+1/−2, +3/−4 and +7/−8 LSB at 10-bit word.
A limiter brings back the 11-bit range to a 9-bit range with
a clipping function on the lower and upper side.
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(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
0
0
(1) β = 1⁄2.
(2) β = 1⁄4.
(3) β = 1⁄8.
(4) β = 0.
1/4fs
1/2fs
Fig.7 Peaking transfer function with variation of β
(α = 1⁄8).
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handbook, halfpage
10
IH_PeakingI
(dB)
8
6
MGE098
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
4
2
0
0
(1) β = 1⁄2.
(2) β = 1⁄4.
(3) β = 1⁄8.
(4) β = 0.
1/4fs
1/2fs
Fig.8 Peaking transfer function with variation of β
(α = 1⁄4).
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