Philips Semiconductors
LIne MEmory noise Reduction IC
(LIMERIC)
Preliminary specification
SAA4945H
Noise estimator
The threshold value N_thr for the filters is calculated in the noise estimator block (see Fig.3). There are four options for
producing the N_thr value:
1. Pre-filter gain setting (YpScale)
2. Wval selects the sensitivity of the noise estimator
3. TASTE (TS) scales the N_thr linear
4. NTHR is externally applied when the noise estimator is disabled by the control bit ExThr of the Status Register.
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YI
PRE-FILTER
YpScale
NOISE ESTIMATOR
Wval
×
MUX
4
NTHR
TS0-TS3 ExThr
N_thr
MGK171
Fig.3 Noise estimator.
SIGNAL DESCRIPTION
Input signals
YI7 TO YI0 (PINS 7 TO 14)
• Eight bit wide digital luminance input bus
• Unsigned data; dynamic range between 0 and 255
• The maximum number of input samples equals
852 active samples/line.
UI1 AND UI0 (PINS 15 AND 16)
• Colour difference signal U
• Data in 2’s complement; dynamic range between
−128 and +127
• Y : U : V format 4 : 1 : 1; see Table 8 for input data
coding
• The maximum number of input samples equals
213 samples/line
• Internal data processing of U signals in unsigned format.
VI1 AND VI0 (PINS 17 AND 18)
• Colour difference signal V
• Data in 2’s complement; dynamic range between
−128 and +127
• Y : U : V format 4 : 1 : 1; see Table 8 for input data
coding
• The maximum number of input samples equals
213 samples/line
• Internal data processing of V signals in unsigned format.
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