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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2009
Applicants:

Oliver Erdler, Ostfildern, DE;

Piergiorgio Sartor, Fellbach, DE;

Carsten Dolar, Recklinghausen, DE;

Martin Richter, Dortmund, DE;

Inventors:

Oliver Erdler, Ostfildern, DE;

Piergiorgio Sartor, Fellbach, DE;

Carsten Dolar, Recklinghausen, DE;

Martin Richter, Dortmund, DE;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing motion blur in a video signal, comprising an analysing means for determining edge characteristics of an input video signal and for providing motion estimation of an edge within said input video signal, generation means for generating a synthetic detail signal dependent on said edge characteristics and said motion estimation, and an adding means for adding the detail signal to the edge within the input video signal and outputting an output video signal. The present invention further relates to a method for reducing motion blur in a video signal.


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