US 7,548,278 B2
Spatio-temporal noise removal method using block classification and display device using the same
Dong-hyuk Shin, Anyang-si (Korea, Republic of); and Rae-hong Park, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of); and Industry - University Cooperation Foundation Sogang Univ, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/302,192.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0051632 (KR), filed on Jun. 15, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0285020 A1, Dec. 21, 2006
Int. Cl. H04N 5/21 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 348—607  [348/701] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device for displaying images by removing noise from a third field by using a first noise-removed field, a second noise-removed field, and the third field, comprising:
a motion calculation part adapted to generate a first motion-compensated field by using the third field and the second noise-removed field, generate a second motion-compensated field by using the first and second noise-removed fields, and generate a third motion-compensated field by using the second motion-compensated field and the third field;
a classification part adapted to generate blocks of the third field into a uniform region and a non-uniform region based on a variance value of a generated difference image by using the third field and any of the first and second motion-compensated fields;
a temporal filter adapted to perform temporal filtering over every block of the third field based on the first and third motion-compensated fields, the third field, and the variance value;
a spatio-temporal filter adapted to perform spatio-temporal filtering by performing spatial filtering over every block of the first and third motion-compensated fields and the third field, and by performing the temporal filtering over every block of the third field based on the spatially-filtered value; and
an arithmetic logic unit adapted to output a third noise-removed field by applying a weighted value to the temporal-filtered value and the spatio-temporal-filtered value, respectively, depending on whether a block in the third field is the uniform region or the non-uniform region.