Kaip Sridhar

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

Todays 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.

44.1: Adaptive Digital Video Format Converters: A New Family of Video Conversion ICs for Video Content Spanning Low Resolution up to Full HD

There has been a rapid increase in the number and variety of video sources that are now available to the consumer. In addition to the traditional broadcast and packaged media sources, consumers now get video from internet sources like YouTube, Google, iTunes, etc., as well as “place-shifted” video from sources like the SlingBox, etc. These new video sources are often low-resolution and full of artifacts. However, consumers expect to be able to view all of these types of video on their large-screen flat-panel TVs and obtain a consistent high image quality. Achieving this requires a new class of highly adaptive digital video format converters. This paper describes the first member of a new family of ICs that has been designed to meet this need.

46.1: Adaptive Video Converters A New Family of Video Conversion ICs for High-Definition A/V Systems

High-Definition (HD) video is proliferating across numerous platforms, countries and market segments. HD products include A/V systems with format conversion, HD TVs, HD Recorders and DVRs, and new HD storage formats such as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. As HD rapidly advances into a mainstream consumer phenomenon there is a need to develop high-performance but low-cost system solutions that work well for a wide variety of display technologies, by optimal partitioning of functionality. This paper describes a new family of ICs that have been designed to meet this need.