Patent Document ID: 7649947
Application ID: 09875329
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of decimating a digital image being represented by a plurality of pixels, the method comprising: dividing the digital image into a plurality of frames, each frame including a plurality of blocks, wherein each block of the plurality of blocks may be represented as a plurality of elements within a plurality of columns (m) and rows (n), where m and n are each two or more; filtering each element of each column of each block, wherein for a given m th column, weighting column m−1 25%, weighting column m 50%, and weighting column m+1 25%; filtering each element of each row of the block, where given an n th row, filtering further comprises weighting row n−1 25%, weighting row n 50%, and weighting row n+1 25%; and decimating a subset of the plurality of blocks within a certain frame of the plurality of frames based upon predetermined criteria.