Patent ID: 7426285

Claim:
A computer apparatus for the purpose of generating an encoded form of video signal data from a plurality of video frames, comprising: a means for identifying corresponding elements of an object between two or more video frames; a means for modeling such correspondences to generate correspondence models, where the correspondence models include motion models and appearance models; a means for segmenting and resampling pel data in said video frames associated with said object, said segmenting and resampling means utilizing said correspondence models, where the re-sampled pel data creates a representation of said object based on finite differences between said video frames, the finite differences implying an interpolant on a neighborhood of pels in said video frames; and a means for restoring spatial positions of the re-sampled pel data, said restoring means utilizing the correspondence models; wherein said object is one or more objects, and said re-sampled pel data is an intermediate form of original pel data of the object for video processing.