Patent ID: 8462265

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of video signal fields; characterizing at least one portion of at least one of the plurality of video signal fields; determining a value for a pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a first criteria; determining a value for a pixel using motion compensated de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a second criteria; and determining a value for a pixel using intra-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a third criteria; wherein characterizing at least one portion of at least one of the plurality of video signal fields comprises: determining a first sum of absolute differences based at least in part on the plurality of video signal fields; and filtering the first sum of absolute differences to provide a filtered sum of absolute differences; determining a second sum of absolute differences based at least in part on the plurality of video signal fields; generating a threshold value based at least in part on the second sum of absolute differences; comparing the filtered sum of absolute differences to the threshold; and wherein determining a value for a pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the characterization satisfies a first criteria comprises: determining the value for the pixel using inter-field de-interlacing if the filtered sum of absolute differences is less than the threshold.