Method for enhancing motion pictures for exhibition at a higher frame rate than that in which they were originally produced

A method for enhancing previously-produced motion pictures for exhibition to theatrical audiences at double the frame rate at which said motion pictures were originally photographed, for delivery of a heightened impact upon the members of said audiences, where the improvement comprises the use of computerized image-rendering techniques to produce transitional images;

• such techniques evaluating the motion of each pixel of each of the images in the original motion picture, and such transitional images being interpolated between each of the original images of said motion picture and the next image in succession, to accurately depict the exact appearance that said previously-produced motion pictures would have had if they had originally been photographed at the frame rate at which they are displayed to said audiences.

A method for enhancing motion pictures photographed in film or digital format for exhibition to audiences at double the frame rate at which such motion pictures were originally photographed, using computerized means for rendering additional images for interpolation between each of the original images of said motion pictures;

• with an additional correcting method also being applied only to components of images which depict motion of sufficient complexity that such enhancement method cannot generate appropriate transitional images of such image components;
• the method comprising:
• detecting such complex motion in specific components of certain images, treating such components as erroneous information, selecting such erroneous information for special treatment, and replacing such erroneous components with the comparable components taken from the previous image from the original motion picture.