Patent ID: 8274577

Claim:
A method for processing digital image and/or video data wherein a frame of the data comprises a plurality of rows and columns of pixels, the method comprising: receiving data for pixels of a frame; filtering the data for the pixels of the frame, wherein the data for the pixels of the frame comprises luminance values and chrominance values, the luminance value of the pixels of the frame is filtered, and the strength of the filtering of the luminance value of the pixels of the frame is based on a comparison of chrominance values of a current pixel and at least one adjacent pixel; identifying a portion of the frame of data to which texture should be applied, wherein the identifying further comprises identifying pixels having similar chrominance values; encoding the filtered data for the pixels of the frame; transmitting the encoded and filtered data for the pixels of the frame; and transmitting identification of the portion of the frame of data to which texture should be applied.