Method of processing fields of images and related device for data lines similarity detection

1. A display controller capable of detecting data line similarity comprising:

a buffer for temporarily storing a plurality of data lines of a target field;

a data line similarity detector, coupled to the buffer, for detecting a similarity of each data line of the target field;

a data line state recorder for recording the similarity of each data line of the target field;

a de-interlacer directly coupled to the buffer and directly coupled to the data line state recorder; and

a scaler coupled to the de-interlacer;

wherein the de-interlacer selectively de-interlaces the target field line by line according to the content stored in the data line state recorder in order to generate a de-interlaced output, and the scaler generates a scaling output according to the de-interlaced output.

2. The display controller of claim 1 , wherein the data line state recorder is 525*5 bits.

3. The display controller of claim 1 , wherein the data line state recorder is 625*5 bits.

4. The display controller of claim 1 further comprising a field state flag modified by the data line similarity detector for storing a field state of the target field, wherein the field state flag comprises three flag bits including a running text flag bit, a still text flag bit, and an image bad editing flag bit for respectively representing a state of a running text, a state of a still text, and a state of an image bad editing.

5. A display controller capable of detecting data line similarity comprising:

a buffer for temporarily storing a plurality of data lines of a target field;

a data line similarity detector, coupled to the buffer, for detecting a similarity of each data line of the target field, wherein the data line similarity detector comprises:

a first comparator for comparing a target pixel of a target data line of the target field with a first corresponding pixel of a first corresponding data line of a successive field to generate a first comparison result;

a second comparator for comparing the target pixel of the target data line of the target field with a second corresponding pixel of a second corresponding data line of the successive field to generate a second comparison result;

an accumulator for performing an accumulating calculation when gray level differences between the target pixel and the first corresponding pixel and between the target pixel and the second corresponding pixel are both greater than predetermined values and when a gray level of the target pixel is the largest or the least among the target pixel, the first corresponding pixel, and the second corresponding pixel; and

a similarity determiner coupled to an output end of the accumulator, for determining that the target data line of the target field is not similar to the first corresponding data line and the second corresponding data line when an accumulating result of the accumulator is larger than a predetermined number;

a data line state recorder for recording the similarity of each data line of the target field;

a de-interlacer coupled to the buffer; and

a scaler coupled to the de-interlacer;

wherein the de-interlacer selectively de-interlaces the target field line by line according to the content stored in the data line state recorder in order to generate a de-interlaced output, and the scaler generates a scaling output according to the de-interlaced output.