Patent ID: 7218355
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: G06T,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of generating pixels to fill in interline gaps in a field of pixels of video information, the field of pixels being A pixels wide and containing B lines of pixels, the method comprising: (a) examining a block of pixels of the field, wherein the block of pixels is X pixels wide and contains Y lines of pixels, wherein the block of pixels has interline gaps, and wherein X is less than A, and wherein Y is less than B; (b) determining whether the block of pixels exhibits a motion characteristic; (c) wherein if the block of pixels is determined not to exhibit the motion characteristic in (b) then performing temporal interpolation to generate interline gap pixels for the block of pixels; (d) wherein if the block of pixels is determined to exhibit the motion characteristic in (b) then performing spatial interpolation to generate interline gap pixels for the block of pixels; and (e) repeating steps (a) through (d) for each of the blocks of pixels of the field.