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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1993
Michael Knee, Strasbourg, FR;
Dominique Madeleine, Montreuil sur Lozon, FR;
Thomson Consumer Electronics, S.A., Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
For improving motion portrayal and reducing undesirable artifacts, e.g., double images and 'mouse teeth' structure, each pixel of intermediate fields in a field rate up-conversion system is determined from nearby pixels in the existing fields using an adaptive linear filtering method (or apparatus) which provides: calculation of sums of differences (one or more for each pixel involved in the adaptive filter); calculation of basic coefficients (one for each pixel involved in the adaptive filter); one-dimensional median filtering of the coefficients; two-dimensional linear filtering of coefficients; normalization of coefficients; calculation of main interpolated pixel values; and correction of interpolation in the case of fast motion.