NEC Electronics Announces New Technology to Boost Low Resolution in Images and Video

NEC Electronics Announces New Technology to Boost Low Resolution in Images and Video

NEC Electronics announced that it has developed a technology for improving the display of low-resolution images and movies on large screen panels.

The new technology is a single frame super-resolution technology which analyzes and processes the information contained in one frame of data to improve blurring and graininess. It is based on an algorithm which refines the contours of people and objects in image magnification process, and compensates for the quality and enhances the color rendition for crisp images.

The application of the new algorithm enhances 1seg ground digital broadcasts from the QVGA format (320 × 240 pixels) of image data to the WVGA format (800 × 400 pixels) for crisp image display on mobile phones and car navigation systems, five times the display resolution. Additionally, the technology boosts image data in VGA format (720 × 480 pixels) ordinarily used for TV broadcasts and DVD storage to six times the resolution, providing clear images for HDTV (1920 × 1080 pixels).