Patent Document ID: 7808559
Application ID: 11046582
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of storing stillness information for a video stream having a plurality of fields each having a plurality of pixels, the method comprising: generating a field stillness characteristic for a current pixel of a current field; and accumulating the field stillness characteristic of the current pixel of the current field with an accumulated stillness characteristic corresponding to a pixel location of the current pixel, wherein the accumulated stillness characteristic includes stillness information regarding at least one previous pixel of a previous field in the same pixel location as the current pixel in the current field; and wherein the accumulating the field stillness characteristic of the current pixel of the current field with an accumulated stillness characteristic corresponding to a pixel location of the current pixel comprises adding the field stillness characteristic to the accumulated stillness characteristic when the field stillness characteristic indicates that the current pixel is a still pixel.