Patent ID: 7268832
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A special effect device for providing a desired special effect to a video signal on the basis of a key signal, the device comprising: a key signal control unit for controlling the level of a key signal corresponding to an arbitrary position within a frame area to a level corresponding to a minimum distance from an inner edge of the frame area on the basis of the level of a key signal on the inner edge of the frame area as a reference value so that the frame area appears along an outer circumference of an image corresponding to the video signal; and a video signal processing unit for changing the video signal on the basis of the key signal, wherein if a maximum level as the reference value is KeyMax and the arbitrary position within the frame area is a position (X, Y) defined in an orthogonal coordinate system in which the nearest position to the arbitrary position, of positions on the inner edge that provide the maximum level, is used as the origin, the key signal control unit gives the level of the key signal based on the following equation (1):