摘要 |
A television screen aspect ratio converting method and the device thereof which is suitable to display a video signal having a 4:3 screen aspect ratio on a screen having a 16:9 aspect ratio. According to the present invention, scanning lines amounting to 30 lines or less having unimportant information are removed in a vertical direction from an input video signal having a 4:3 screen aspect ratio, vertical interpolation 15 performed for the removed scanning lines, and then 4/5 time-compression in a horizontal direction is performed, so that the video signal is displayed on a screen having a 16:9 aapect ratio. Accordingly, picture loss in a vertical direction is minimized and the screen expansion in a horizontal direction is within a range such that a general televiewer cannot perceive a variation of image, so that integrity of image to be displayed after the conversion of screen aspect ratio can be maintained as is. <IMAGE> |