Video signal processing device and method

摘要

A video signal-processing device that can improve the apparent contrast of the luminance signal at a television receiving set includes a quantity of black expansion computing section for computationally determining the quantity of black expansion when the luminance component of the input video signal is not higher than a first luminance level, a gain controller for regulating the quantity of black expansion as computationally determined by the quantity of black expansion computing section, a quantity of black expansion adding section for generating an output video signal by adding the quantity of black expansion regulated by the gain controller to the luminance component of the input video signals and a vertical span adding block for integrating the luminance component of the output video signal not higher than a second luminance level for a field. The gain controller regulates the quantity of black expansion according to the luminance component integrated by the vertical span adding block to improve the apparent contrast of the luminance signal at the television receiving set by accurately expanding black.