At NAB 2015, Faroudja Enterprises is introducing three video quality improvement technologies designed to clean encoded digital images and minimize artifacts to for higher multiscreen image quality on TV sets, tablets or smartphones. The company is showcasing bandwidth restoration for edges and details, 1080p to 4K upscaling, and detail preserving de-blocking. All will be available for mobile, home, consumer and broadcast applications, and are designed to be encoder and decoder independent.
Bandwidth Restoration Technology (BR1) utilizes large edge detail improvements through amplitude adaptive algorithms. Fine details and large edges are enhanced without the introduction or amplification of noise or compression artifacts.
Deblocking and Debanding Technology (DB1) examines regions of uniform value while detecting and tracking small variations, commonly introduced by the quantization stage of compression. Artifacts are recognized and eradicated. DB1 is intended for eliminating blocks and banding often introduced during compression, while not diminishing details and edges.
Multi-Dimensional Upscaler (US1) utilizes proprietary multi-dimensional processing to scale video from SD to HD to 1080p to 4K/UltraHD. In the upscaled 4K image, edges and details retain their integrity, without introducing aliasing (diagonal edges are free of jaggies) or blur.
