Patent ID: 7576802

Claim:
A method, comprising the computer-readable steps of: receiving a digitized source motion picture image stream, wherein the digitized source motion picture image stream has been recorded at a television frame rate and is based on an original motion picture film that was filmed at an original frame rate of less than the television frame rate; digitally extracting, from the digitized motion picture image stream, a first intermediate digital image stream corresponding to and having the original frame rate; performing electronic digital motion interpolation upon the first intermediate digital image stream, resulting in creating and storing a second intermediate digital image stream of about double the television frame rate; digitally selecting, from the second intermediate digital image stream, pairs of frames of the second intermediate digital image stream; digitally interweaving the selected frames to create composite frames; digitally resizing the composite frames and selecting interlacing half frames from among the composite frames to result in creating an output image stream of the television frame rate.