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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1998
Kent Olsson, Sundsbruk, SE;
Ting Ting Zhang, Sundvall, SE;
Youshi Xu, Sundvall, SE;
Roger Andersson, Sundvall, SE;
Pinnacle Systems Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing noise in a video signal which includes a plurality of video frames being composed of a plurality of pixels, the method comprising the steps of: comparing video information contained in a current video frame and a plurality of temporally adjacent video frames; selecting from the current video frame and the adjacent video frames the video information that according to a predetermined condition is likely to be correct for the current video frame; and finally assigning the selected video information to the current video frame to thereby produce a video frame wherein noise has been reduced.