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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:
Mar. 10, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Douglas Scott Price, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);

Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04N 19/132 (2014.01); H04N 19/136 (2014.01); H04N 19/587 (2014.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 19/80 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/0102 (2013.01); H04N 7/0135 (2013.01); H04N 7/0127 (2013.01); H04N 7/0137 (2013.01); H04N 19/132 (2014.01); H04N 19/136 (2014.01); H04N 19/80 (2014.01); H04N 19/587 (2014.01); H04N 5/772 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for upsampling a video sequence for coding. According to the method, an estimate of camera motion may be obtained from motion sensor data. Video data may be analyzed to detect motion within frames output from a camera that is not induced by the camera motion. When non-camera motion falls within a predetermined operational limit, video upsampling processes may be engaged. In another embodiment, video upsampling may be performed by twice estimating image content for a hypothetical new a frame using two different sources as inputs. A determination may be made whether the two estimates of the frame match each other sufficiently well. If so, the two estimates may be merged to yield a final estimated frame and the new frame may be integrated into a stream of video data.


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