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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Gary Hughes, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Vitaliy M. Slobotskoy, Arlington, MA (US);
Gary Hughes, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Vitaliy M. Slobotskoy, Arlington, MA (US);
General Instument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for reducing interlace artifacts during trick mode playback of pre-encoded content. The system and method operate a decoder to receive a video signal, configured as frames, with each frame having a plurality of interlaced fields, and to provide a video output in interlaced format or trick mode format. When operating in a normal mode, the decoder provides the video output in the interlaced format. When operating in trick mode, the decoder is instructed to use one of the fields of a frame as a reference field, and outputs a video output frame in the trick mode format where both fields of the video output frame are the same as the reference field. The video signal can be a streaming video or read from a medium.