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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382261 ; 382268 ; 382266 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of filtering edges of a picture block with an edge-smoothing filter. The selection of the edge-smoothing filter depends on the size of the movement vector associated with each picture block BV to clarify the picture image and increase image quality. Alternatively, the selection of the edge-smoothing filter depends on the picture quality or both picture quality and the movement vector.