Patent ID: 7973801

Claim:
A method for processing video data in a video data processing device for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements to suppress a dithering pattern caused by the movement of an object on the display device from appearing to a viewer observing the moving object, the moving object represented by said video data, the method comprising: applying a dithering function to at least part of said video data in a dithering device of the video data processing device, wherein the dithering improves a grey scale portrayal of video pictures of said video data, computing at least one motion vector from said video data in a motion estimator device of the video data processing device, said video data representing the object in motion on the display device; changing at least one of the phase, amplitude, spatial resolution and temporal resolution of said dithering function in accordance with said at least one motion vector representing the movement of a moving object on a picture when applying the dithering function to said video data in the dithering device of the video data processing device to suppress the dithering pattern caused by the movement of the object on the display device from appearing to a viewer observing the moving object on the picture; and outputting the dithered video data from the video data processing device to the display device to suppress the dithering pattern from appearing to a viewer observing the moving object on the picture on the display device.