BSTJ 50: 2. February 1971: The Picturephone System: Digital Encoding of the Video Signal. (Millard, J.B.; Maunsell, H.I.)

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‘The Picturephone® System:

Digital Encoding of the Video Signal

By J.B. MILLARD and Il. 1. MAUNSEIT.
(Ofacuaioteecve Bepoer & 170)

We dacrite in this paper the thry nd srplemantation of @ dif
‘ntal pulse sade modulation eto ha fe omployd in the Picturophone
‘network, Belblshed and original ending locnuze have been combine
to allow tranemitsion of x coed managers analog simal ever a 0-312-
‘megabit-persecnd digital channel

Pulse code modulation (PCM) ix used for processing of snag wi
le for digital truntnisvion, Quanlizing noe and increased ban
trith are the ponlice Zor ibe noise immunity inhorent in digital

‘Difeendal ayateme? such us delta solution sad the mere gen
teal digerentia, palo code modalution (DPC3E have been invect-
felted because of the ablity to sope the spel wn af the noise ad ta
lake avenlage of the aample-te-sraple earlation in. Ue niga. Tn
‘cries of papers ia 1952, BAL. Oliver? EK. Kretrmort end C2 W.
[arison® eoneidored the use of Hear precieton fr "decorelnion” of
video signs. Ts 1986 W. #. Sehteibert performed entropy ensure
Inenle on television sigele to determine the prfominuntrehindancien
Present. Tn 1968 RE, Grabim® demons: by computer simulation
the easily of using -bit TPC fore Ielewison teanemiesion of
will black and mite pietarn Mor rently J. BL O'Neal, 31
‘us analysed deka modulation aed DPCM for the wansmisson
of vileo signals. Te noite structure of DECM systems in slope over=
loud las been investigated by K. N. Protonotarios"® Subjective evalus
tions Have hoa reaorded by B.C. Briard?" Thee sti have le
the way for the application of DPCM to Picurephone transision,

23 Pulue Cate Modulation
The conventional mated of digital procesing of anclog iona’s ie
PCM. The signal, e((), i soiled, a(aP', quantized to dicerece level,
800 rm. GreMMM TreMTW.AAL. JOURKA, SEARMEARE 6

fn), and ener, 2607/0), in Wnary for fr Unwcsion et
the digital Tine rae Cae Fi 1)

‘The main source of impairment in the dovoded und Siteredwignal
1s noe introduced ak the qantiner

aT) = a(0) — no wo

"This quantixing noise kes Ue fort of Twekeroun’d nave of & gene
craly nandora nature. In addition, the auaber of bite por sstple ie
ested, Whe aekrosnd raise Towel vse and wonton paler
spent fn the video ict.

22 Preise Feedba’ Systeme

Independent processing of euch samplo is asewzed for PCM ystems
For sgual sourees having statiteslprepercis lke thereof white noi,
ero atamle-to-saraple eorelation, sie in appropriate. Homers, met
ideo signals are highly coreleted aot ex's from eample-to-sample
‘at foun Tine-to-ne and from famnoto-famne a wel

Th preiosive quanlisng syste Ue value 0° Une signal ix preted
(predator P) at eaoh auzpling instant from ita recorded pate history
(Store) and only the diferenee, ofa}, bacrcen tha signal sample and
ite prodited vale, ap(, in auanaed, aCe, and lesnerited (ee

Fig. 2).
‘The Pictrophons signal han @ 1-MHx bendidth with an ska

Tine rie, There ate 271 Tine per fle with a 2:1 interlace, Table T
howe te minimum emount of storage tequired (tensmitter and re-
csiver) don various feedback aye wsutzing tht Saormation for use
in the pradieeor, Pie stored with aa aeeuaey of cht bite por somple

‘The coete and’ complestics of sysiors containing Jorge storce
‘nsighed hesvilyagainet the we of frameio-frameeorelation®+ at the
time the devizn of a eadee for the Pictarhono neimarle woe begun
"The work of O'Neal on tolevicon sigatls, whoee line-to-line eta-
‘istics ere much tho sume ae thoee of Pitirephone sigaals, demon-

ste), a0) for Sees Leto
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strated that only bout 9 2d vin iv sgualdosnise ratio S/N}
ould be achieved weing linear pzedition if Hevion‘al and versical
oroltions were soprusinaely ancl. Somat es could be
tchinved with a 2:1 interhce fora! The les eer was cherefore
feontod om enunplo-to-ecm's desursT li procure.

Wor sarp- nase ploy eysteng che stare takes the orm of
sc owuighved capped. delay Tine (7 be the samp ing interval) with the
vreehte, ay to he dcterine! hy lu aise of Ue signal (ao ig. 3."

260) = ¥alesin = OM tae = 9TH a
whet the a, f= 3,3, +++ Letty the oquations

By = Rig Re bo OP @
sad Bs the correlation funtion,

Ry = Bislin — THs — ATH c)

Mourorements have shown that, for samples sien on the eae
Ling, lelevision signale have an sutgcomelation funstien which is very
erly Lapinevsas

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{Wor thie type of souree, the optimar eolation to minnie the mean
ouare tor between input end ontput (orediesed signs) i one how
All the a, = 0 except a. "Thix meare tha only the previous sample

is elective in decrselating the signi, The peeetve feedbacs coder
‘hen takes the form shown in Hig. 4. A mesure ofthe validity of thu
{scomptions and the efectivencs: of the decorrelation proc is tho
‘Nout of correlation temeved from the vio sigaal and Ube amount
remaining in Ue error signal. The adjacent esmple earelation eo-
ficient

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fos the wane picture iv 0.407 9 exielnla rom Inbormtary dala for
‘ue three bit DPOB ceder using the quantizer of Fig. 5. This shows
‘that considerable redundancy Le Uoen recoved Iu the cna but
hae nome sttoplosta-eemple earrclation genio

2 Quantoing Neiwe

‘Tw deionstate that the noige introduced ia preditive fede
syslems can be determined by anelysing the ener st the quantizer
ike, courder the one-cap syst of Fig. 4. The quantizing vor QU
is given by

QF = en) — sia °
whee
400) = vin) — Hoh, o
6G) = ye) — en 10)
wot) = Mo = 112). ay
Substituting equstions (0), (10) and (11) into (8) gvee
QF = ain) — Hw + YT a)

whic isthe aytema err in transmitting the signal inthe eheones of
‘ny chennel errae. ‘The syetem nike enn therefore be determined
464 tun nous averme troxsiou. Jonna, PERRUARY HL

Aircaty from the cbaraoesstic ofthe ero elnal and a knowledge of
the quantizer. The manner in waieh the quantsing soise manifests
‘Held ae piane impaaunts will he discussed in later sections

24 Difirential Pulte Code Mnadetion
CConmler Ue single tap predictive feetbuek wie shown inHg, 4
‘The feedback igual, 2a ie evn by

i)

16) = Eat ~
‘haloes fvioe <1 intraduce into the delay section thea equation
(03) is modifiel to ire

ton) = Zonta — an as

Ps hislony ie weighted giving greater importance vo the mere recont
samples, In practioe, the feoubnok notvrk in the Piturephone ele
is replaced ty an analog network which consila of an intogratar, F
swith lnk fe Fig 8

Fe ~ a,

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ig, |irelit DPCM wane bene,
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‘where the jt lenustion (14)) snd w [equation (15)] ave related in
the folloing man
pep (al) any
‘A eystem cnganined in this fashion ie DPCM system A cites
‘ential system very measly tranemia the differences beten successive
Samples zether thar the samples Uheuselves, ‘Tho reeiver aceumulatee
‘he reosied difenenee ond recontuets an npproximntion le the
‘orignal waveform, ‘The preecoe of a quantines provides the potential
{or an seeumlition of eystomarie qusntising errr. The feedback loop
around the quantizer prevents :hie weeur ulation
"The soedback network used in tie Pisteephons coer Ias a 2we
time cowstent, Wor abject eee the time constane ras made 96
luge as possible without anduls raugnfying the efele of transient
errors on tho viewod picture, This is dveused farther in Section 28

128 Subjective Considerations ond Nowe Shavbwy
In DPCM, the subjective effec of = video ahverver can be taken
into neeonnt and the spesirum of the nase shiped aaronlingy. Ax
Grahann pointe out? the “concep of pregictive quentning at 2 tly
peteeplua coding teehniqua" is ona “in which the prmery objet is
ot necessarily aczarate prediction wl} ot wl:noe ll othe time, which
Isquenty ie impossible, be: only acoorete pension ix thateeigne]
regions where che obwerver pereaplion high.” T i known that the
pe is more tolerant of ros onaind sl blagk-whiteintrfecastasn in
{at regione of tho pienire. Interfaces are charsaeviaed by lage valuet
‘of the dierene signal and st regen hy smal ves Tei therefore
possible to use eompsnding on the diferenee signe to loeate the noise
in rogion of the siuure where chat note i Lent abjcetionsble
Companding * accorslaked through te use of a nonlinear qm
tising ehneeeleviatc provicing a fine strutare and whieh S/N for
Tow level illus signals (nt reviors} end anarar abrsue with
ite lower 8/10 Zar sarge eflerenor nigra Ulan), The ronnear
498 oy nuts aewrme CUBICAL JOURNAL, PEERUAIY RL

chactoterinie une the Pictarophono eodee is chown in Fx, 5, The
Coie of thin parseular ecb of slap slaee Wl bo discussed io a ater
rection

THotnase of the eubjective myeete of rating picture quality, B/N is
nol a rafllene mesure of aye performance. However, itis ue
fo compare the theoretical S/N performances of PUM wil DPCM.
[Breed on sone simplifying aawizplions" O'Neal! has chow that for
‘he optics one tap predictive ter the 8/1 improvement for DPCM
bovr PUI ie elated to the eample-to-sample corelation of the eign,
[Ry(T}, ia the following manner

/t0 IMPROVEMENT ~ 10. [, by ap
y= Rin, 0

For vidoo signals wish only moderato amount of etal this eels
in an jmpeovernent of spprosimstely 12 dB which i aquirsent to bro
‘ite nf quantising information per sazple

128 Signal Impairments

DPCM systems are subjes: to a unique sat of wlisetive impaire
rnvnta, Atzong thew nee overload aise, ga ke, eumfuuting and
tiie haynes, all resuling from the qauntining prone (see Section
22) bat diferen: In appearance to th observer,

Tntike PCM syrtane whieh exe amplivade ‘iled, DPCM ayetoms
uvesioad on slope, If the eample-to-emle d:Terense is geester then
the langeet quae step, then the syste is salto e in slope over
owl. A rystem exhibiting ale overload cfestvely reduces the hori=
rental olution of the sene being procemed,

in Iw detail noplone of the pistore, the noise power ix dolermined
by te rather ne quialining etructare designed for small difference.
{This ir feared te ranlar ooiee region, Figure T sows w wyplea
‘en ert a vinden ed ze a rn

Tn the Pituorpheme oodea the small stop is 15 «mY wna the
ep 225 nV ona lla eo egal of 2480 (Pi 9). Tho
Toulution errr for any beghtues chenge is pls or mings one-hulf of
‘aml atep, The slope handling eapablty of the coded i 50 m¥ per ws.

Te sumations on mich Wie Wey i sd ae that) the dton of
se ial a be saat Yeh Lape nce acon

Ho =

ne ping he ain he pl a
Sascha °
oma, socom 407

te

Fx. 1—ilatied vido wavtfon and DPOB ream shoving an eveond

Figure 8 ahowe 4 typionl pitore ("Rosalie") uneaded, (sce Fig, fe),
ind exhibiting slope overloud uitorthrse bit encocing (cae Hz. 8b)
‘This ig mest notte ne sinenrmg on Uns cap ring ‘whitetorblak
interface)

1 the amit steps are too large the «trove corrslacion between the
‘aventizing noise ad th signe) eat Tea’ ir viii pattern Ue a
sbjeerivaly objectionabie. Ta at regis uf the pore (aera aap
Tecsampl liferenee), the DPCM feedback lcep eriliaces using alter
nately positive ard negative sail step. The integrator lake break
nap thie petvem aad if the leek snwe lark i to sally Teale con
touring ean occur. This i ustrsted for oro different vale of video
level in Pig. 0. Tho dashed component of the sigpal iste ak eonions

[Even inthe abeone of leak, contouring patterns can owur in slong
rian of the video sgoal A‘slope whienaighly exceeds (fale hort
ct} the ability of w particu step sie to follow i wil rquiee pore
‘orzetion, through the uso of the next lager eonaller} sl. T this
‘waveform ie repented through several Hes (esrong vertical eorzela-
tion in the picture) and if the difeenoes bacwwum the kdjncent steps
in quertion ate oo lage, a Vile eantone pastern wll rele, Figure
410 demonstrates this flo

Figure 11 is 2 photograph of an ccalaenpe teoes showing Tene
comeusing patra, A nell-designod thoee bit paiva dees nat produce
hill eortours, ‘bw piewre reelter from changing the
sonst from 27 ys to 3 ws

‘The zequiremete for micimising the peeing inmairmente ste a
conic, given a fixed number of etepa In the ouantier, Grenulas noise
require eperty fine spcntsing susie. Slope overlond and
408 twm mma vere Te SOUMNAL, PEOREARY

@ o

Big Su) al Méturptone ima

she Puta of it
PCa Reephone nt asa Es zy

ener Noisonta] resolution requirements spesity a large outer stop
Contouring and, a2 wil be tui slow, edge Busynass, can both be
race! through the uee of « uniform spacing of the steps. Quantiscr
Ales la therefore a mnticr of Gnding Une proper compromise rong
the subietive effec of the vovinue impairment,

ft Bymcbvnssaton and Lidge Boone

‘Since cho system wi sesiqnel tn eozeentate the naiee in the high
troquensinearrespending to she ileface or edges in ae Petar, the
resulting degredation botomes « Tiling Totes. Queatising noise a:
Slightly vorrerteal eager likr= the fora o: "staizstops." ‘Tie is due
to tho diserete nate ofthe warping process fia going from feurs-
fovirame in sti, plete Pree ate changes in the responce of he