Next-Gen 3-Dimensional (3-D) Video Noise Reduction (VNR)
Latency-Free 1-3 Previous Buffered Frame VNR Filter
Precoad's next-generation 3-Dimensional (3-D) spatial-temporal video noise
reduction (VNR) solutions visibly improve and are complementary to LCD TVs,
video displays, Blu-ray Players, Blu-ray Disc (BD) Production, as well as video
cameras and sensors. A key advantage is that Precoad’s 3-D spatial-temporal
VNR solutions can be implemented as a live, real-time latency-free 1-3 previous
buffered video frame VNR filter. This innovative patent-protected anisotropic-
diffusion-based spatial-temporal solution is starkly different from the onerous and
burdensome IIR and adaptive filter types of approaches.
Precoad's groundbreaking, visibly superior, lowest implementation-cost family of 3-
D VNR solutions for video provides the following feature set:
- Complementary, because it also removes video content noise (caused for
example by film grain noise, camera-capture device hardware, poor lighting,
video reproduction) that is NOT removed by other algorithms and/or
hardware device
- Additionally reduces various DIFFERENT type of spatial-temporal noise
contamination
- including "external" noise as well as "internal" noise
- Can be integrated in combination with any other existing NR (such as 2-D
spatial only), or as stand-alone independently
- Improves NR performance for visibly superior video picture quality, and
preserves and does not destroy nor lose video picture features
- Lowest complexity for lowest-cost implementation
- Without tailing or ghosting effects
- No additional latency
- Needs only one to at most 3 previous buffered video frames, but NO
future frames
- Rapid product integration
The “game changing” market opportunity triggered by Precoad’s 3-D VNR is
higher product-quality levels at lower product-cost levels in the fiercely picture-
quality competitive video landscape -- from the camera level to the display level to
the IC level. The critical differentiating key here is our highly sought “latency-free”
advantage, without compromising video picture-quality, and without onerous
implementation complexity and cost.
Precoad 3-D VNR results for video test sequences for major chip manufacturers
are quite dramatic. These tests are commonly used patterns in video test and
measurement systems. Their purpose is to stress the system and observe the
system behavior under controlled conditions. The VNR must be capable of
recognizing noise and noticeably reducing noise level without unacceptable or
visible degradation in the original video pattern.
You are invited to come and view real-time simultaneous side-by-side demos of
Precoad’s next-gen 3-D spatial-temporal VNR, for live comparison of video picture
quality before and after application of Precoad’s next-gen 3-D spatial-temporal
VNR.

