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Details
Inventors: Azam, Mohammad S.; Carr, Michael D.;
Assignee: British Telecommunications plc (London, GB2)
Primary Examiner: Groody; James J.
Assistant Examiner: Harvey; David E.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Nixon & Vanderhye

An analog-to-digital converter 2 for video signals has a sensitivity (reference) input 4 controlled by a controller 10 in response to the converter's digital output so as to maintain the grey level with a predetermined range. Preferably the controller employs an irregular subsampling of the digital values, and responds differently to extreme and mid-range samples. A scale factor may be forwarded to a digital-to-analog converter for reconversion.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to the present invention there is provided a digital video coder comprising a video input for receiving analogue video signals from a camera; an analog-to-digital converter connected to the input and having an output for digital words representing successive samples of the input signal and a control input for varying the sensitivity of the converter; and control means responsive to the digital words at the output of the converter to generate digitally, as a function of the amplitudes represented by previous digital words at the converter output, a control signal for application to the control input of the converter.
Other optional features are defined in claims 2 to 9 of the appended claims .



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