Patent ID: 8229245

Claim:
A method for enhancing a digital video stream of digital images, comprising: (a) transforming the digital images of the video stream into spatio-temporal subband images by processing circuitry of a video apparatus, the transforming comprising a causal time wavelet transform using filterings by multiscale causal wavelets and a spatial subband transform; (b) applying causal non-linear operators to said spatio-temporal subband images by the processing circuitry, to compute modified spatio-temporal subband images; and (c) applying to said modified spatio-temporal subband images a spatio-temporal reconstruction by the processing circuitry to compute enhanced video images delayed by a predetermined time delay of d images of the video stream, d being a non-negative integer, wherein said spatio-temporal reconstruction comprises: i. an inverse of said spatial subband transform; and ii. an inverse of said time wavelet transform using filterings with multiscale reconstruction wavelets each multiplied with either a window function of support [−d; 0], or with a sum of nonnegative translates of said window function.