Patent ID: 8730393

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to receive a plurality of video signal fields, to characterize at least one portion of at least one of the plurality of video signal fields, to determine a value for a pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a first criteria, to determine a value for a pixel using motion compensated de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a second criteria, and to determine a value for a pixel using intra-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a third criteria; wherein circuitry to characterize at least one portion of at least one of the video signal fields comprises: circuitry to determine a sum of absolute differences based at least in part on the plurality of video signal fields and to filter the sum of absolute differences to provide a filtered sum of absolute differences; and wherein circuitry to determine a value for a pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a first criteria comprises: circuitry to determine a value for a pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the filtered sum of absolute differences is less than a threshold.