Patent ID: 6961379

Claim:
A method for processing video pictures, the video picture consisting of pixels, the pixels being digitally coded with at least one digital code word, wherein to each bit of a digital code word a certain duration is assigned, defining a sub-field, during which the whole pixel or a component of the pixel is activated, wherein a motion vector is calculated for a pixel, and the motion vector is used for re-coding the sub-field code word of the pixel, wherein the motion vector calculation is made in a manner that the resulting motion vector determines for a current pixel from which location in a previous video picture the current pixel comes from, wherein the re-coding step includes a step of calculating drag coordinates for one or more of the sub-field code word bits of the current pixel based on the calculated motion vector, and wherein the drag coordinates are used for selecting a pixel in the video picture and using the corresponding bit of the sub-field code word of the selected pixel to determine the corresponding bit of the new sub-field code word of the current pixel.