Adaptive Digital Video Format Converter IC Featuring Qdeo True Color and Natural Depth Expansion

摘要

Today's consumer has access to a wide variety of video sources, including traditional broadcast and packaged media sources as well as internet sources like YouTube, Hulu and iTunes. These video sources have a variety of resolutions and usually a lot of artifacts. Furthermore, they all have limited gray-scales of 256 levels or less, resulting in contouring artifacts. On the other hand displays continue to increase in bit-depth, size, and resolution, with 10-bit and 12-bit panels increasingly common and 4K×2K displays starting to enter the high-end. This paper describes a new digital video format converter IC featuring proprietary Qdeo video processing that bridges this big "color-gap" between video sources and video displays.