The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1998
Darren A. Giles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Terran Interactive, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing an inverse telecine process is provided. For the method of the present invention, a computer system reads a series of frames in an input video sequence. The pixels in each frame are analyzed to determine if the frame is a composite frame produced by a prior telecine process. Frames that are determined to be composite frames are reconstructed, when practical, using their immediately preceding frames. Composite frames that cannot be reconstructed are transformed into interpolated frames. The computer system adds the reconstructed frames, along with the frames that did not need to be reconstructed, to an output video sequence.