Patent ID: 8223839

Claim:
Method for interpolating at least one pixel of a motion compensated image from at least two source images, comprising the steps of: for said pixel of the image to interpolate, estimating a motion vector from the source images, determining the amplitude of the estimated motion vector; selecting an interpolation pattern for said pixel of the image to interpolate in accordance with said amplitude of the estimation of said vector, said interpolation pattern identifying pixels in at least one of said source images and associating to each one of said identified pixels a weighting factor, wherein, if the amplitude of the estimated motion vector of the pixel of the image to interpolate is less than or equal to a first non zero threshold, the interpolation pattern comprises the n pixels of at least one of the source images nearest to the spatial position of said pixel to interpolate, n being greater than or equal to 2, and the weighting factor assigned to each of said source image pixels is dependent on their proximity to said pixel to interpolate, and interpolating said pixel of the image from the identified pixels of the at least one source image and the weighting factors of the selected interpolation pattern.