Patent ID: 6992725

Claim:
A method for converting interlaced video fields into progressive video fields, said method comprising: computing static, motion, and texture components for all pixels of a sub-partition of an interlaced field; determining portions of the static, motion, and texture components that contribute to a pixel of a progressive field; wherein the portions of the computed static, motion, and texture components that contribute to the pixel of the progressive field is determined using a perceptual model; adjusting one or more of the static, motion, and texture components; summing the adjusted one or more static, motion, and texture components; receiving a past interlaced field and a future interlaced field, wherein the interlaced field is received after the past interlaced field but before the future interlaced field; where adjustment of the static image component comprises an act of reducing said static image component by a modulation factor Ra, where said modulation factor is computed by scaling an aed factor by BAI, wherein said aed factor is derived by computing an average energy of a difference between a block in the future interlaced field and a prediction of a corresponding block in the past interlaced field, and further, said BAI is obtained by computing an image difficulty of a block in the field.