Method and apparatus for determining true motion vectors for selected pixels
US5581308A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N5/145
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An inventive apparatus determines true motion vectors between a current and its previous frames for feature points selected from the previous frame wherein a selected feature point is surrounded by its neighboring four feature points to form a previous rhombus having a set of four triangles based on the selected feature point. A motion vector displacement generator gives a predetermined N number of displacements to an initial motion vector for its corresponding feature points to thereby produce a subset of N candidate motion vectors and a motion prediction block provides a current rhombus corresponding to the previous rhombus by the initial motion vectors, wherein the current rhombus has N sets of four triangles due to the N candidate motion vectors. A true motion vector is selected from the subset of N candidate motion vectors, which entails a minimum error value between the predicted pixel values for each triangle set in the current rhombus and their respective corresponding current pixel values from the previous frame.
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