Method and apparatus for high quality video motion adaptive edge-directional deinterlacing

An integrated circuit for deinterlacing video comprising:

• a motion adaptive interpolator operative to receive pixels associated with a current field and pixels associated with other pixel information, the motion adaptive interpolator operative to generate a temporary frame based on the pixels for the current field and the pixels associated with the other pixel information;
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• an edge directional interpolator operative to receive the temporary frame and generate a reconstructed frame.

A method for deinterlacing video comprising:

• constructing a temporary field of deinterlaced video based on a first field of interlaced video, wherein the temporary field comprises placeholder pixels in identified areas of motion in lines of the temporary field associated with a missing field of interlaced video and pixels from an opposite field of polarity of interlaced video in areas without motion;
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• replacing the placeholder pixels in the identified areas of motion with pixels interpolated using an edge direction interpolation scheme based on pixels in the first field of interlaced video.

An integrated circuit for deinterlacing video comprising:

• a motion adaptive interpolator operative to receive pixels associated with a current field and pixels associated with other pixel information, the motion adaptive interpolator operative to generate a temporary field based on the pixels for the current field and the pixels associated with the other pixel information;
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• an edge directional interpolator operative to receive the temporary field, to receive the pixels associated with the current field, and to generate a reconstructed frame.