Frequency domain down-conversion of HDTV using adaptive motion compensation

Abstract

The paper investigates the possible means of down converting an incoming HDTV signal into one which is suitable for display onto an NTSC monitor. We present a novel frequency synthesis algorithm which constructs a set of 8/spl times/8 DCT coefficients from four original 8/spl times/8 DCT blocks. Also, a down-conversion decoder employing a unique adaptive motion compensation algorithm is presented. Using this fixed motion compensation algorithm, the proposed down-conversion technique is compared to the conventional method. Both yield acceptable image sequences with different trade-offs in complexity and quality.