Patent ID: 7720296

Claim:
A method for determining a selection vector which represents a displacement vector for a displacement of an image area from a first position in a first image to a second position in a second image, the method comprising the steps of: a) supplying a set of prediction vectors; b) supplying a predetermined set of test vectors; c) selecting at least one test vector from the set of test vectors, and performing an image comparison between a first image area in the first image and a second image area in the second image to obtain an image comparison result, wherein a position of the second image area is displaced relative to the first image area by the at least one selected test vector; d) comparing the at least one selected test vector with at least one selected prediction vector to obtain at least one vector comparison result for each selected test vector; e) supplying at least one quality characteristic for each selected test vector from both the image comparison result obtained for each selected test vector, and from the vector comparison result for each selected test vector; f) determining a ranking order of the quality characteristics; and g) selecting one of the selected test vectors as the selection vector from the set of test vectors based on the ranking order of the quality characteristics.