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US 2010/0149423 A1Published application
Apparatus and method of estimating motion using block division and coupling
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYang Ho Cho, Ho Young LEE, Du-Sik PARK
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Abstract
Provided are an apparatus and method of estimating a motion using block coupling and block division. In the apparatus, a block having a motion estimation error greater than a predetermined value may be coupled with a neighbor block, and motion estimation is performed through the coupled block to improve a frame rate, thereby reducing an artifact phenomenon in an interpolated image.
Claims14
An apparatus to estimate a motion, the apparatus comprising:
- a block coupling unit coupling blocks in which a motion estimation error with respect to an input image is greater than a predetermined value;
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- a motion estimation unit estimating a motion of the coupled blocks.
A method of estimating a motion, the method comprising:
- coupling blocks in which a motion estimation error with respect to an input image is greater than a predetermined value at a block coupling unit;
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- estimating a motion of the coupled blocks at a motion estimation unit.
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