Video signal conversion device, video signal conversion method, video signal conversion system, control program, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10440314-B2
Application number	US-201716079483-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2017
Priority date	Jul 11, 2016
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

A video signal conversion device is realized in which even in a case where an HDR video signal following a first video format is converted into a HDR video signal following a second video format, supplementary information related to the HDR video signal following the original first video format is not lost. The video signal conversion device (1 or 40) includes: a conversion unit (5) that converts the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format into the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format; and an output unit (12) that outputs the supplementary information which is related to the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A video signal conversion device comprising:
a conversion unit that converts a video signal following a first video format into a video signal following a second video format; and
an output unit that outputs supplementary information which is related to the video signal following the first video format, wherein
a luminance scheme of the first video format is an absolute luminance scheme, and
a luminance scheme of the second video format is a relative luminance scheme.

2. The video signal conversion device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an addition unit that adds a descriptor, which indicates that a high dynamic range video signal following the first video format is converted into the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format, as the supplementary information to the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format.

3. The video signal conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein the supplementary information includes meta-information, and the meta-information includes at least one or more of a maximum luminance value, a minimum luminance value, an average luminance value, a white level, and information related to a master monitor in a high dynamic range video signal following the first video format.

4. The video signal conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein
the output unit outputs the supplementary information while superimposing the supplementary information on a high dynamic range video signal following the second video format, which is converted by the conversion unit, and
the video signal conversion device further includes a transmission unit that transmits the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format, which the output unit outputs while superimposing the supplementary information.

5. The video signal conversion device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication unit that transmits the supplementary information which is output by the output unit through a different transmission path from a transmission path for transmitting a high dynamic range video signal following the second video format.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that records the control program that causes a computer to function as the video signal conversion device according to claim 1 .

7. The video signal conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein
the video signal is a high dynamic range video signal.

8. A video signal conversion device comprising:
an acquisition unit that acquires supplementary information which is related to a video signal following a first video format; and
a conversion unit that converts a video signal following a second video format, which is converted from the video signal following the first video format, into the video signal following the first video format by referring to the supplementary information, wherein
a luminance scheme of the first video format is an absolute luminance scheme, and
a luminance scheme of the second video format is a relative luminance scheme.

9. The video signal conversion device according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a read-out unit that reads out a descriptor, which indicates that a high dynamic range video signal following the first video format is converted into the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format, from the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format.

10. The video signal conversion device according to claim 9 , wherein only in a case where the read-out unit reads out the descriptor, which indicates conversion from the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format, from the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format, the conversion unit converts the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format into the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format by referring to the supplementary information.

11. The video signal conversion device according to claim 8 , wherein the supplementary information includes meta-information, and the meta-information includes at least one or more of a maximum luminance value, a minimum luminance value, an average luminance value, a white level, and information related to a master monitor in a high dynamic range video signal following the first video format.

12. The video signal conversion device according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a meta-information read-out unit that reads out the supplementary information which is superimposed on a high dynamic range video signal following the second video format.

13. The video signal conversion device according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a communication unit that receives the supplementary information which is transmitted through a different transmission path from a transmission path for transmitting a high dynamic range video signal following the second video format.

14. A television image receiver comprising:
the video signal conversion device according to claim 8 .

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that records the control program that causes a computer to function as the video signal conversion device according to claim 8 .

16. The video signal conversion device according to claim 8 , wherein
the video signal is a high dynamic range video signal.

17. A video signal conversion method comprising:
a conversion process of converting a video signal following a first video format into a video signal following a second video format; and
an outputting process of outputting supplementary information that is related to the video signal following the first video format, wherein
a luminance scheme of the first video format is an absolute luminance scheme, and
a luminance scheme of the second video format is a relative luminance scheme.

18. A video signal conversion method comprising:
an acquisition process of acquiring supplementary information which is related to a video signal following a first video format; and
a conversion process of converting a video signal following a second video format, which is converted from the video signal following the first video format, into the video signal following the first video format by referring to the supplementary information, wherein
a luminance scheme of the first video format is an absolute luminance scheme, and
a luminance scheme of the second video format is a relative luminance scheme.

19. A video signal conversion system comprising:
a first video signal conversion device including
a conversion unit that converts a video signal following a first video format into a video signal following a second video format, and
an output unit that outputs supplementary information which is related to the video signal following the first video format; and

a second video signal conversion device including
an acquisition unit that acquires the supplementary information, which is related to the video signal following the first video format, from the first video signal conversion device, and
a conversion unit that converts the video signal following the second video format, which is converted by the first video signal conversion device, into the video signal following the first video format by referring to the supplementary information, wherein

a luminance scheme of the first video format is an absolute luminance scheme, and
a luminance scheme of the second video format is a relative luminance scheme.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Nishigaki Tomoo
• Suzuki Hideki
• Fujine Toshiyuki
• Yoshiyama Kazuyoshi
• Sakurai Ryoji

Classifications

• H04N21/44029

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• H04N7/025

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• H04N21/235

  Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors · CPC title

• H04N21/23439

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• H04N21/4402

  involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display {(details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764)} · CPC title