Patent Document ID: 7668397
Application ID: 11387720
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for assessing the quality of a video sequence generated from an original video sequence, said apparatus comprising: an input means for receiving said generated video sequence and for providing a reference sequence using said received generated video sequence, said input means comprising a system mode selection unit for receiving said original video sequence and for providing a segmentation map using at least one of an image segmentation algorithm and a compression noise reducer (MNR), wherein said reference sequence is generated using one of said original video sequence and said generated video sequence according to a user selection; a feature extraction unit for receiving said reference sequence, said generated video sequence and said segmentation map and for generating an extracted feature signal using said reference sequence, said generated video sequence and said segmentation map; an objective quality score providing unit for receiving said extracted feature signal and for analyzing said extracted features to provide an objective quality score indicative of the quality of said generated video sequence.