Patent ID: 8369644

Claim:
An apparatus for reducing motion blur in a video signal, comprising: an analysing means for determining edge characteristics of an input video signal and for providing a motion estimation of an edge within said input video signal; a generation means for generating a synthetic detail signal dependent on said edge characteristics and said motion estimation, said synthetic detail signal being artificially generated and being only dependent on said edge characteristics and said motion estimation; and an adding means for adding the synthetic detail signal to the edge within the input video signal and for outputting an output video signal, wherein the generation means further includes: a gain factor control means for calculating a gain factor (a g ) that represents a height of the edge, a height independent detail signal generation means for generating a height independent detail signal based on a position and an orientation of the edge, and the motion estimation, and a multiplication means for multiplying the height independent detail signal with the gain factor (ag) to obtain the synthetic detail signal, and for submitting the synthetic detail signal to the adding means.