Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting video frame types with median filtering, which proceeds a denoising step after calculating the comb factor of each pixel, to avoid incorrect judgment of the frame type resulting from excessive field difference and improve detection accuracy.

Abstract: A method for a 3:2 pull-down film source detection. First, a source is received. Then, field differences of two fields of the same type in the source and an average field difference according to the field difference corresponding to at least one prior field in the source are calculated. The source is established as a 3:2 pull-down film source by checking whether a 3:2 pull-down signature is in the source according to the field difference and the average field difference, and a bad editing point is detected according to an interlaced frame information of the source.

Abstract: A method for scaling a digital picture to generate a scaled picture including following steps:(a) scaling a portion of the digital picture instead of the whole digital picture in a first direction; (b) scaling part of the data produced in step (a) in a second direction; and (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) to form the scaled picture.

Abstract: A method for a 3:2 pull-down film source detection. First, a source is received. Then, field differences of two fields of the same type in the source and an average field difference according to the field difference corresponding to at least one prior field in the source are calculated. The source is established as a 3:2 pull-down film source by checking whether a 3:2 pull-down signature is in the source according to the field difference and the average field difference, and a bad editing point is detected according to an interlaced frame information of the source.

Abstract: A method for a 3:2 pull-down film source detection. First, a source is received. Then, field differences of two fields of the same type in the source and an average field difference according to the field difference corresponding to at least one prior field in the source are calculated. The source is established as a 3:2 pull-down film source by checking whether a 3:2 pull-down signature is in the source according to the field difference and the average field difference, and a bad editing point is detected according to an interlaced frame information of the source.

Abstract: The invention describes an exposure control method. A target luminance value is set. A plurality of range and step parameters is set. An exposure value (EV) is set and an exposure value adjustment index is obtained by an adjustment based on the range and step. A new target luminance value is obtained from a table according to an adjustment factor. An measured luminance value is measured according to the exposure setting. A modified exposure value is calculated by an exposure value (EV) modification process. Thereby, basic arithmetic and logical operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are be used in place of complicated exposure calculation using a logarithmic operation in the conventional image processor and thus problems of power consumption and execution speed are resolved.

Abstract: A method for motion pixel detection with a static counter map so as to correctly evaluate whether a missing pixel is in a static region or a non-static region, thereby reconstructing the missing pixel by an inter-field interpolation process or an intra-field interpolation process, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method for square root computation, in which a shift-comparison operation is introduced into the computation process so as to obtain correction factors and adjusting factors. The bits of the correction factors are shifted to form estimation terms, and then the adjusting factors are used to correct the estimation terms to obtain the square root. The present invention is advantageous in both high speed for real-time operations and high accuracy.

Abstract: A method for detecting dynamic video pixels by using adaptive counter threshold values according to field difference value of the frame in the video, thereby to determine whether the frame is an interlaced frame or a progressive frame and to eliminate incorrect judgements resulting from field difference and to improve accuracy of frame determination.

Abstract: A font display method using a font display co-processor to accelerate font display includes receiving font information from a baseband CPU and loading a mapping table, a font bitmap table, and a font code table to the font display co-processor. The font information is corresponded to a font code according to the font code table. The font code corresponds to a font index according to the mapping table. The font index is corresponded to a font bitmap according to the font bitmap table. Some special effects may be added to the font bitmap displayed on a display module.

Abstract: A scaling device and method for scaling a digital picture in only one pass requires only a small amount of buffer memory which can be used in real time. The method includes inputting the digital picture, generating a block of the digital picture from the digital picture, creating two weighting matrices, and multiplying the block of the digital picture by the weighting matrices.

Abstract: A method for decimating a first image data filtered by a Bayer pattern color filter array. The first image data includes a plurality of patterns arrayed in a matrix. Each pattern includes a first color pixel. The method includes providing first color pixel weighting values of the plurality of patterns of the first image data, and summing up the first color pixel weighting values to generate a first color pixel of a second image data decimated from the first image data.

Abstract: A method for scaling a digital picture to generate a plurality of different size pictures includes following steps: (a) providing a scaling engine; (b) loading a section of the digital picture to the scaling engine; and (c) scaling the section loaded in step (b) to generate digital images of different sizes.

Abstract: A method for adjusting sharpness and brightness of a digital image. In this method, an image function is first inputted into a processor. The image function comprises a plurality of control parameters. Next, the control parameter values of the control parameters are set, and then each of the pixels is sequentially leaded into the image function according to the control parameter value so as to perform the corresponding operation for adjusting the sharpness and brightness of the image. Finally, the adjusted image is outputted. Therefore, the two processes in the prior art, one for adjusting the brightness, the other for the sharpness, are merged into one process so that the design of the hardware circuit is simplified and the required memory space is reduced.

Abstract: A method for scaling a digital picture to generate a scaled picture including following steps:(a) scaling a portion of the digital picture instead of the whole digital picture in a first direction; (b) scaling part of the data produced in step (a) in a second direction; and (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) to form the scaled picture.

Abstract: A digital picture processing method for mainly partitioning an inputted picture into a plurality of blocks and then separately performing a deblocking process and a deringing process on each of the blocks so as to reduce the required memory space and to instantaneously process the data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting video frame types with median filtering, which proceeds a denoising step after caculating the comb factor of each pixel, to avoid incorrect judgment of the frame type resulting from excessive field difference and improve detection accuracy.

Abstract: A method for motion pixel detection with adaptive thresholds, according to the global motion information among the reference video fields, so as to correctly evaluate whether a missing pixel is in a static region or a non-static region, thereby reconstructing the missing pixel by an inter-field interpolation process or an intra-field interpolation process. If the amount of motion among the reference fields is large, there is high motion information among the reference fields, so the threshold is set to be small; if the amount is small, there is less motion information between the reference fields, and so the threshold should be set to be large.

Abstract: A method for adjusting sharpness and brightness of a digital image. In this method, an image function is first inputted into a processor. The image function comprises a plurality of control parameters. Next, the control parameter values of the control parameters are set, and then each of the pixels is sequentially leaded into the image function according to the control parameter value so as to perform the corresponding operation for adjusting the sharpness and brightness of the image. Finally, the adjusted image is outputted. Therefore, the two processes in the prior art, one for adjusting the brightness, the other for the sharpness, are merged into one process so that the design of the hardware circuit is simplified and the required memory space is reduced.

Abstract: A method for motion pixel detection with a static counter map so as to correctly evaluate whether a missing pixel is in a static region or a non-static region, thereby reconstructing the missing pixel by an inter-field interpolation process or an intra-field interpolation process, respectively.