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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Amberfin Limited, Basingstoke, GB;
Roderick MacKenzie Thomson, Nelson, NZ;
Bruce Devlin, Chiddingfold, GB;
Timothy Ian Shuttleworth, Reading, GB;
Amberfin Limited, Basingstoke, GB;
Abstract
A video frame rate converter has a temporal synchronization analyzer for dividing the input video sequence into successive groups of frames each of Nconsecutive frames and a motion analyzer for analyzing motion over the frames of each group to provide a group motion measure. The inverter includes both an interpolator for performing interpolation on a group of Ninput frames to provide Noutput frames, where Nis different from N; and a synchronizer for deleting or repeating an identified frame from the group of Ninput frames to provide Noutput frames. A switcher then switches group-by-group in dependence upon the group motion measure between the interpolator and the synchronizer to form an output video sequence having an output frame rate different from the input frame rate.