Patent ID: 7457435

Claim:
A computer apparatus for the purpose of generating an encoded form of video signal data from a plurality of video frames, comprising: a means of identifying corresponding elements of an object between two or more frames in a sequence of video frames of subject video signal data; a means of modeling such correspondences to generate correspondence models of the object, where the correspondence models employ local deformation models of the object on a pel level, the local deformation models having finite differences of video frame intensities that represent an interpolant on a neighborhood of pels; a means of segmenting and resampling pel data in said video frames associated with said object, said segmenting and resampling means utilizing said correspondence models; a means of restoring the spatial positions of the re-sampled pel data, said restoring means utilizing the correspondence models; said object being one or more objects; and said re-sampled data being an intermediate form of the subject video signal data.