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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2006
Yunwei Jia, Milton, CA;
Lowell L. Winger, Waterloo, CA;
Yunwei Jia, Milton, CA;
Lowell L. Winger, Waterloo, CA;
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for detecting moving interlaced text in a video sequence originating through telecine is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) checking a motion condition of a current block in a current field in the video sequence for motion both (i) from a previous field in the video sequence to the current field and (ii) from the current field to a next field in the video sequence, (B) checking an artifact condition of the current block for a plurality of symmetric interlaced artifacts in both (i) a forward temporal direction and (ii) a backward temporal direction and (C) asserting a block motion indicator for the current block if all of (i) the motion condition is true and (ii) the artifact condition is true.