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+## Copyright (C) 1994-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} rgb2ntsc (@var{rgb})
+## Transform a colormap or image from RGB to NTSC.
+## @seealso{ntsc2rgb}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
+## Created: July 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function yiq = rgb2ntsc (rgb)
+
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ ## If we have an image convert it into a color map.
+ if (ismatrix (rgb) && ndims (rgb) == 3)
+ is_image = true;
+ Sz = size (rgb);
+ rgb = [rgb(:,:,1)(:), rgb(:,:,2)(:), rgb(:,:,3)(:)];
+ ## Convert to a double image.
+ if (isinteger (rgb))
+ C = class (rgb);
+ low = double (intmin (C));
+ high = double (intmax (C));
+ rgb = (double (rgb) - low) / (high - low);
+ endif
+ else
+ is_image = false;
+ endif
+
+ if (! ismatrix (rgb) || columns (rgb) != 3)
+ error ("rgb2ntsc: argument must be a matrix of size Nx3 or NxMx3");
+ endif
+
+ ## Convert data
+ trans = [ 0.299, 0.596, 0.211;
+ 0.587, -0.274, -0.523;
+ 0.114, -0.322, 0.312 ];
+
+ yiq = rgb * trans;
+
+ ## If input was an image, convert it back into one.
+ if (is_image)
+ yiq = reshape (yiq, Sz);
+ endif
+
+endfunction