A flexible architecture for precise gamma correction

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 474-478

  Lee, Dong U ^a   Cheung, Ray C C ^b   Villasenor, John D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displays; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Fixed point arithmetic; Video signal processing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LOGIC DESIGN; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC; GAMMA CORRECTION; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 34247597969     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.893671     Document Type: Article

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