Patent ID: 8797426

Claim:
A method of reducing noise in a video produced using a TV camera, the method comprising generating in a video channel a video flow with at least one video frame group, the at least one video frame group comprising an odd number of 2N+1 video frames having time interdependence, wherein N is ≧1, and wherein the video frame to be processed for reducing noise to produce an output video frame is a middle video frame in the at least one video frame group, and wherein remaining video frames in the at least one video frame group are N pairs of video frames juxtaposed time-symmetrically with respect to the middle video frame; determining a pixel value of a corresponding pixel positioned in each of the 2N+1 video frames; calculating for each pair of video frames an average pixel value for corresponding pixels positioned in the video frames of the pair; calculating for each pair of video frames an absolute value of a difference between the calculated average pixel value and the determined pixel value of a corresponding pixel in the middle frame, calculating for each video frame of each pair an absolute value of a difference between the determined pixel value of a corresponding pixel positioned in a pair of video frames and the determined pixel value of a corresponding pixel positioned in the middle video frame; determining a minimal of all said absolute values; and selecting a pixel value for a corresponding pixel in the output frame as a weighted pixel value corresponding to the determined minimal absolute value.