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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2008
Sheng-chun Niu, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Ling-hsiu Huang, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Sheng-Chun Niu, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Ling-Hsiu Huang, Sinshih Township, Tainan County, TW;
Himax Media Solutions, Inc., Tainan County, TW;
Abstract
A method of converting a frame rate of a video signal includes the steps of: receiving a pulldown film sequence existing in or converted from a sequence of successive-in-time frames of the video signal, in which the pulldown film sequence comprises a plurality of diverse original frames each having a corresponding number of duplicate frames; modifying the original frames; performing estimation of at least one motion vector associated with the modified original frames; and interpolating new frames between the modified original frames in accordance with the motion vector.