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IC DESCRIPTION

The circuit contains the following picture improvement features:

> Peaking control circuit. The peaking function can be activated for all incoming CVBS, Y/C

and RGB/YPrPb signals. Various parameters of the peaking circuit can be adapted by means
of the I2C-bus. The main parameters are:

- Peaking centre frequency (via the PF1/PF0 bits in subaddress 19H).
- Ratio of positive and negative peaks (via the RPO1/RPO0 bits in subaddress 47H). The

peaks in the direction “white” are the positive peaks.

- Ratio of pre- and aftershoots (via the RPA1/RPA0 bits in subaddress 47H).

> Video dependent coring in the peaking circuit. The coring can be activated only in the low -

light parts of the screen. This effectively reduces noise while having maximum peaking in the
bright parts of the picture.

> Black stretch. This function corrects the black level for incoming signals which have a

difference between the black level and the blanking level. The amount of stretching (A-A in
Fig. 72) and the minimum required back ground to activate the stretching can be set by
means of the I2C-bus (BSD/AAS in subaddress 45H).

> Gamma control. When this function is active the transfer characteristic of the luminance

amplifier is made non-linear.The control curve can be adapted by means of I2C-bus settings
(see Fig. 74). It is possible to make the gamma control function dependent on the picture
content (Average Picture Level, APL). The effect is illustrated in Fig. 75. Previously this
function was mentioned under the name “white stretch function”.

> Blue-stretch. This circuit is intended to shift colour near ‘white’ with sufficient contrast values

towards more blue to obtain a brighter impression of the picture.

> Dynamic skin tone (flesh) control. This function is realised in the YUV domain by detecting

the colours near to the skin tone.

7.9 Colour decoder

The ICs decode PAL, NTSC and SECAM signals. The PAL/NTSC decoder does not need
external reference crystals but has an internal clock generator which is stabilised to the required
frequency by using the clock signal from the reference oscillator of the TCG u -Controller.

Under bad-signal conditions (e.g. VCR-playback n feature mode), it may occur that the colour
killer is activated although the colour PLL is still in lock. When this killing action is not wanted it is possible
to overrule the colour killer by forcing the colour decoder to the required standard and to activate the FCO-
bit (Forced Colour On) in subaddress3CH. The sensitivity of the colour decoder for PAL and NTSC can be
increased by means of the setting of the CHSE1/CHSE0 bits in subaddress 3CH.

The Automatic Colour Limiting (ACL) circuit (switchable via the ACL bit in subaddress 3BH)
prevents that oversaturation occurs when signals with a high chroma-to-burst ratio are received.
The ACL circuit is designed such that it only reduces the chroma signal and not the burst signal.
This has the advantage that the colour sensitivity is not affected by this function.

The SECAM decoder contains an auto-calibrating PLL demodulator which has two references,
viz: the divided reference frequency (obtained from the-Controller) which is used to tune the
PLL to the desired free-running frequency and the bandgap reference to obtain the correct
absolute value of the output signal. The VCO of the PLL is calibrated during each vertical
blanking period, when the IC is in search or SECAM mode. The frequency offset of the B-Y
demodulator can be reduced by means of the SBO1/SBO0 bits in subaddress 3CH.