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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1989
Filed:
May. 31, 1988
Vincent C Harradine, Basingstoke, GB;
Clive H Gillard, Basingstoke, GB;
John W Richards, Near Stockbridge, GB;
Sony Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus for processing motion vectors associated with a digital television image, comprises a vector filter and a vector calculator for deriving a plurality of motion vectors respectively representing the motion of pixels in a corresponding plurality of blocks of pixels in the image, a processor for distributing the plurality of motion vectors into groups, each group comprising motion vectors lying within a respective different predetermined range of magnitudes and directions, and a processor for substituting for the motion vectors in each of a plurality of the groups into which the largest number of the motion vectors fall, a single motion vector representing the motion vectors in the respective group.