Patent ID: 8687693

Claim:
A method for processing images of a video sequence, comprising the steps of: for one or more frames, which sequentially function as a reference frame in a set of frames of the video sequence, accessing a set of motion estimates that includes: a first motion estimate for each region of the reference frame that characterizes motion that is associated with pixels of each of the regions of the reference frame in relation to regions of at least one frame of the frame set, wherein the at least one frame is displaced in time with respect to other frames of the frame set; and at least one additional motion estimate that characterizes motion that is associated with the pixels of each of the regions of the reference frame in relation to regions of at least a second frame of the frame set, wherein the at least a second frame is displaced in time from the at least one frame and from other frames of the frame set; based on an alignment of the regions in the reference frame over the frame set, which corresponds to the first and at least one additional motion estimate, predicting a set of temporal image predictions over the frame set; blending the set of temporal image predictions; and based on the blending step, generating a temporal predictor over the frame set.