CLARITY-48TM
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Deep Color is a technology employing more than 24-bits/pixel to represent colors on LCD displays.
HDMI 1.3 digital interface standard recently introduced as an optional the Deep Color 48-bits/pixel xvYCC color space which reduces banding over HD resolutions on large screen areas.
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As video resolutions increase, up to 3200x2048 pixels with HDMI™ TypeB connector, there is a demand for a high quality of the picture being displayed on LCD HD-TV sets. Deep Color playback devices re-sample the original compressed 24-bits/pixel movie to the 48-bits/pixel format by interpolating and de-blocking the source data.
This requires a notable amount of processing power leading to increased costs, increased power consumption and increased heating while losing details compared to the original 48-bits/pixel uncompressed movie. Generally, it must be noted how any MPEG-based algorithm is based on "blocks" of pixels - 16x16 to 4x4 pixels - which are not related to any other adjacent block, thus leading to "blocking" artifacts once the video is decoded. That is why computationally expensive de-blocking filters are basically always applied after decoding, even in very recent standards such as H.264, which contains an in-loop de-blocker. All the present solutions have been adopted because any movie in any DVD, HD-DVD™ or Blu-Ray Disc™ is still stored in a 24 bits/pixel MPEG format. Other external references:
CLARITY-48™ allows for compressing and storing the 48-bits/pixel movie using standard MPEG formats, thus allowing for reconstruction rather than re-sampling, without using de-blocking hardware.
This means that by employing CLARITY-48™, DVD, HD-DVD™ or Blu-Ray Disc™ players and recorders can use any MPEG-like algorithm in order to store and playback the movie in a 48 bits/pixel format which is still fully compatible with other non-Deep Color players and devices. With CLARITY-48™ it is possible to avoid post-filtering - i.e. de-blocking - of the decoded movie since blocking and banding artifacts are automatically removed once CLARITY-48™ is applied to decode the stored 48 bits/pixel movie. Moreover, the increased storage space offered by Blu-Ray Disc™ and HD-DVD™ makes CLARITY-48™ a perfect solution for providing superior picture quality right from the stored movie. Specifically, CLARITY-48TM allows for:
CLARITY-48TM
is currently in patent pending status.
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