Patent · US Active

Method and apparatus for robust super-resolution video scaling

US8054380B2 · kind B2 · utility

2Cited by
11References
17Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateApr 12, 2006
Grant dateNov 8, 2011
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 28, 2027

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T3/4007
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for scaling video images, which applies more particularly to techniques for converting video sequence formats and deinterlacing. The invention comprises a parameterized interpolation (101) which computes interpolations at each new point of the output. An insensitive interval estimation (102) computes an interval where the probability distribution of the output image value is estimated to have its maximum, and an insensitive loss calculation (103) derives for each interpolation value a negative log likelihood measurement from an interval-insensitive probability distribution. After a spatial regularization (104) the invention includes a minimum loss selection (105) which selects the minimum loss interpolation at each new point and provides it as an output image value. The invention also includes a total variation increment module and a directional matching error module that can penalize the insensitive loss, for the minimum loss selection.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.