PROCESSING SEQUENTIAL VIDEO IMAGES TO DETECT IMAGE MOTION AMONG INTERLACED VIDEO FIELDS OR PROGRESSIVE VIDEO IMAGES

摘要

The method or apparatus is directed to improving the accuracy with which video images are processed to detect image motion among sequential images progressive non-interlaced images of a video signal and/or interlaced fields of video signal (102), each image being represented using a plurality of pixels (fig. 5). A correlation surface is generated for every pixel in a reference image (510, 512), from which a motion vector and confidence metric (106) are extracted for each pixel.