Patent ID: 8199817

Claim:
A method for error concealment in the decoding of a moving picture, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining an erroneous macro block in a present frame during the decoding of a moving picture; (b) comparing adjacent pixels of respective macro blocks in a previous frame with adjacent pixels of the erroneous macro block in the present frame when the erroneous macro block has been determined in step (a); (c) finding a first macro block having a highest similarity to the erroneous macro block and at least a second macro block having at least a second highest similarity to the erroneous macro block in the previous frame by; (d) obtaining an average between the first and second macro blocks found in step (c); and (e) replacing the erroneous macro block determined in step (a) with a macro block having pixel values based on the average obtained in step (d) to conceal the erroneous macro block.