Patent ID: 7405765

Claim:
An apparatus for de-interlacing an interlaced image comprising previous, current, and next fields to generate a progressive image, the apparatus comprising: a first motion estimator utilized for estimating a motion between the current filed of the interlaced image and a corresponding compensation field of a compensation image to generate a first motion signal; an intra-field interpolation generator utilized for generating an intra-field interpolation pixel by using pixels in the current field; a pixel choosing module utilized for generating at least one of reference pixel according to the at least one of the previous and the next fields and the first motion signal; a determined module utilized, for generating a compensation field of the compensated image according to the intra-field interpolation pixel, the at least one of reference pixel, and the first motion signal; and a combining circuit utilized for combining the compensated field of the compensated image and the current field of the interlaced image to output the progressive image.