Patent ID: 8032004

Claim:
A method of determining a target width (W T ) and a target height (H T ) of a video frame, measured in pixels, from a height H E and a width W E of an encoded video frame, measured in pixels, the method comprising: comparing the magnitude of (W D /H D ) with the magnitude of ((W E *PAR)/H E ), where W D and H D are a width and a height, respectively, of a display, measured in pixels, and PAR is a pixel aspect ratio; if (W D /H D ) is greater than ((W E *PAR)/H E ), setting H T equal to H D ; if (W D /H D ) is less than or equal to ((W E *PAR)/H E ), setting H T equal to H D /(((W E *PAR)/H E )/W D /H D ); and setting W T equal to H T *((W E *PAR)/H E ), where H T is the target height as determined above; wherein the method is performed using a microprocessor.