Patent ID: 7215376

Claim:
A portable DVD player comprising: a generally thin prismatic enclosure having a first major surface, a second major surface separated from said first major surface, and side surfaces connecting said first major surface to said second major surface, wherein at least a portion of said first major surface includes a video display, and wherein said enclosure includes a DVD entry port such that a DVD can be inserted; a video processor receptive to an interlaced video stream, from a DVD inserted into said enclosure, and providing a deinterlaced video stream comprising: a first deinterlacer operative to analyze progressive frames of said interlaced video stream in an attempt to determine an original source type and sequencing used for the interlaced video stream and further operative to convert said interlaced video stream into a deinterlaced video stream using a conversion process that is dependent upon said detection of said original source type and sequencing; and a second deinterlacer operative to reduce motion artifacts detected by a frequency analysis of said interlaced video stream; and an output processor receptive to said deinterlaced video stream and operative to provide a scaled, deinterlaced video stream on said video display.