Patent 7978266 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An improved motion compensated interpolation of images in video sequences, in particular, for use in up-conversion processing. In order to achieve a smooth object motion in the interpolated image sequence, separate image areas are processed differently if an image change occurs in the video sequence. While for one image area motion compensation is suspended, the other image area is subjected to motion compensated interpolation.