Patent ID: 7535515

Claim:
A method for distinguishing false motion from true motion, in a video signal that is received by a television set, the method comprising: receiving the video signal at the television set, the video signal including a luma component and a chroma component; and performing a motion detection operation for each of the chroma component and the luma component, wherein the motion detection operation is performed on a pixel-by-pixel basis in one or more of: a low frequency luma domain, a high frequency chroma domain, and a high frequency luma domain, and wherein each frequency region where the motion detection operation is performed has a unique threshold value for distinguishing false motion from true motion, the threshold values being dynamically adjustable and determined for each pixel that is undergoing the motion detection operation_based on the incoming video signal, thereby improving the motion detection accuracy and minimizing image artifacts in an image that is described by the video signal and is to be displayed on the television set, wherein the threshold for a pixel undergoing the motion detection operation is determined as a percentage of the difference in pixel values between the pixel undergoing the motion detection operation and one or more neighboring pixels in an image described by the video signal.