Patent ID: 7949053

Claim:
A method for video encoding, comprising: performing a texture analysis of video scenes to identify areas of synthesizable textures; encoding the video scenes and generating meta data for describing the areas identified and for describing the synthesizable textures using information on identified areas of synthesizable textures, and information on the textures of these areas; and ensuring temporal consistency of recognizing synthesizable textures in a sequence of frames by means of a texture catalogue, by storing the synthesizable textures of the identified areas of synthesizable textures in a first frame of the sequence in the texture catalogue in order to initialize same; comparing the synthesizable textures of the identified areas of synthesizable textures in the following frames of the sequence with the synthesizable textures stored in the texture catalogue; in the event of a match, assigning the respective synthesizable texture of an identified area of synthesizable texture among the following frames of the sequence to the respective synthesizable texture stored in the texture catalogue; and in the event of no match, storing the respective synthesizable texture of an identified area of synthesizable texture among the following frames of the sequence in the texture catalogue.