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- Image Processing Operations
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- The AVT system offers a number of specialized image processing operations
- the are optimized for use with slow scan images; These are generally
- available in the RoboSynth window, and when you press the "Lcor" button
- that is actually IN the RoboSynth window - that opens yet another
- process window with some very, VERY nice goodies in it.
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- Let's stick to the RoboSynth window for the moment, however.
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- In here you will find Four transmit convert buttons (discussed in the
- file headed RobotColor.doc, along with the post-receive tint
- control). You will also find a button headed "Luma". This button takes the
- contents of the Red, Green, and Blue buffers and creates a Black and white
- image according to the forumla used for NTSC composite images: 59% from the
- green buffer, 30% from the red buffer, and 11% from the blue buffer. This
- has two effects; One obvious (it makes it black and white) and the other
- not so obvious: it makes a smoothed image from a color one that may have
- been quite rough.
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- You will also notice two sets of arrow buttons. One pair has small "b"'s in
- them, and the other has small "c"'s. In the center of these four arrows
- is a small square buttton labled "H".
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- The Arrows are for stepping the brightness and contrast up and down,
- and the "H" button generates a histogram.
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- Like most functions in the AVT system, if you are in B&W, then the contrast
- and brightness functions, and the histogram, only affect that particular
- buffer - red, green OR blue. If you are in color, all three of the red,
- green and blue are affected, and the color image is redrawn for you.
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- If you press the "Lcor" button, a new window opens and you have a number
- of Image processing tools available to you that have to do with single
- line error correction (hence the name - Lcor = Line CORection).
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- The first thing to notice is the small "keypad" of arrow keys, with
- the square button in the center. The up and down arrows (and the up and
- down cursor keys on the kbd, if you prefer) move a small cursor up and
- down along side the image you are working on. If you press the square
- button in the center of the keypad, then this action is multiplied - the
- small white cursor moves in ten line steps instead of 1 line steps.
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- The right and left arrows (and the right and left on the keyboard) actually
- shift the line you are on to the right or left - you can correct many of the
- positioning errors that are inherent in the old, error-prone protocols
- like Robot composite color, and 8 second B&W.
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- In addition, the action of the center shift button is duplicated by the
- ENTER key on the numeric keypad - note that this is NOT the "RETURN" key
- on the main keyboard.
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- That does something else, of course, as you will see in a moment.
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- Look at the right edge of the window. You will see three small buttons.
- Two have small 'c's adjacent to arrows in them, and one has a line with
- two arrows pointing at it.
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- The 'c' buttons are line-copy buttons. They cause the line below or above
- the line that the cursor is on to be copied into the current line.
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- The line with the two arrows pointing at the line in the center is a
- line synthsize initiator. This causes the line that the cursor is
- positioned upon to be completely replaced with a line that was
- created from the average of the line above it and the line below it.
- Try each of these three options on each line you want to be working on,
- see which works best for you.
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- You'll also see a button labled "Shft". This is for use with the
- Line-sequential modes such as Volker-Wrasse or WA7WOD's line sequential
- modes (25.5, 50,102). If you receive an image that seems to go to some
- wild (and WRONG) color combination in the middle of the image, bring up
- the window, move the cursor to the scan line where the problem occurs,
- and press the Shft button once or twice. That should clear it up.
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- You may find that you might have to do that multiple times in order to
- completely clean up the image, but it's quite easy to do.
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- The RETURN key on the keyboard does this too, when this window is open.
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- In addition, the two copy and the synthesize options are available from
- the three keys at the top right of the numeric keypad. The 9 is copy
- down, the 6 is copy up, and the 3 is synthsize.
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- Remember that you can use the Amiga programs "Butcher" and PixMate" to
- do REALLY heavy-duty image processiing work for you; But these operations
- are specific to SSTV, and are unlikely to be included in a standard
- image processing suite.
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