Motion compensation and motion estimation leveraging a continuous coordinate system

Computer-readable hardware storage having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when carried out by computer processor hardware, cause the computer processor hardware to perform operations of:

• access reference image information comprising information defining a grid of a plurality of image elements at a given resolution;
• identify a location of a particular image element in a reference image, wherein the location of the particular image element is off-grid with respect to the grid of image elements defined in the reference image information, the location of the particular image element identified without prior reference to on-grid image elements within the grid defined in the reference image information;
• select a group of multiple image elements in the reference image associated with the particular image element, each of the group of multiple image elements being selected by determining a distance from the each of the group of multiple image elements to the particular image element and determining that the determined distance is less than or equal to a given distance, and each of the selected group of multiple image elements in the reference image being on-grid as defined in the reference image;
• for each of the group of multiple image elements, calculate a weight of the each of the group of multiple image elements with respect to the location of a particular image element, the w eight of the each of the group of multiple image elements being calculated based at least in part upon a distance from a centroid of the particular image element to a centroid of the each of the group of multiple image elements;
• produce one or more display setting values for the particular off-grid image element based at least in part on one or more display settings of the selected group of multiple image elements in the group of on-grid image elements, wherein the display settings of the each of group of multiple image elements is weighted by the calculated weight of the each of the group of multiple image elements;
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• assign the one or more display setting values to a first image element of an image rendition being reproduced based on content of the reference image.

A computer system comprising:

• computer processor hardware;
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• a hardware storage resource coupled to the computer processor hardware, the hardware storage resource storing instructions that, when executed by the computer processor hardware, cause the computer processor hardware to:
• access reference image information comprising information defining a grid of a plurality of image elements at a given resolution;
• identify a location of a particular image element in a reference image, wherein the location of the particular image element is off-grid with respect to the grid of image elements defined in the reference image information, the location of the particular image element identified without prior reference to on-grid image elements within the grid defined in the reference image information;
• select a group of multiple image elements in the reference image associated with the particular image element, each of the group of multiple image elements being selected by determining a distance from the each of the group of multiple image elements to the particular image element and determining that the determined distance is less than or equal to a given distance, and each of the selected group of multiple image elements in the reference image being on-grid as defined in the reference image;
• for each of the group of multiple image elements, calculate a weight of the each of the group of multiple image elements with respect to the location of a particular image element, the weight of the each of the group of multiple image elements being calculated based at least in part upon a distance from a centroid of the particular image element to a centroid of the each of the group of multiple image elements;
• produce one or more display setting values for the particular off-grid image element based at least in part on one or more display settings of the selected group of multiple image elements in the group of on-grid image elements, wherein the display settings of the each of group of multiple image elements is weighted by the calculated weight of the each of the group of multiple image elements;
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• assign the one or more display setting values to a first image element of an image rendition being reproduced based on content of the reference image.