Director of Product Development

As the video industry transitions from analog to digital, more and more video processing equipment will also need to transition from analog to digital. The current analog television standards, NTSC, PAL, etc., are based on interlaced formats. As these standards transition to digital, the demand for progressive material will increase, causing a directly proportional increase in the demand for video processing products with high quality de-interlacing. There are many ways to perform the de-interlace process, with varying levels of quality and corresponding compute requirements. This paper will emphasize the importance of proper de-interlacing, examine some of the currently used techniques for de-interlacing video, delineate a new de-interlacing technique, and discuss applications where this new de-interlacing technique can improve the end-to-end image quality of any DTV system