Occlusion adaptive motion compensated interpolator

A display device comprising:

• a digital display;
• and
• a display controller comprising:
• a picture correlation vector confidence block configured to determine if motion of an object within a displayable output with respect to motion of a background within the displayable output is such that a particular area of an interpolated frame is a reveal region, a conceal region, or neither;
• and
• a selector coupled to the picture correlation vector confidence block and configured to use forward vectors applied to a current frame and to a frame subsequent to the current frame to select a motion compensated pixel from the current frame as a value for a pixel in the interpolated frame if the area is a reveal region and to use backward vectors applied to a previous frame and to a frame prior to the previous frame to select a motion compensated pixel from the previous frame if the area is a conceal region.

An occlusion adaptive motion compensated temporal interpolator comprising:

• means for determining if motion of an object within the displayable output with respect to motion of a background within the displayable output is such that a particular area of an interpolated frame is a reveal region, a conceal region, or neither;
• means for, when the area is neither a reveal region nor a conceal region, using both forward vectors applied to the current frame and backward vectors applied to the previous frame to calculate values for pixels within the area;
• means for, when the area is a reveal region, using forward vectors applied to the current frame and to a frame subsequent to the current frame to calculate values for pixels within the area, without using backward vectors;
• and
• means for, when the area is a conceal region, using backward vectors applied to the previous frame and to a frame prior to the previous frame to calculate values for pixels within the area, without using forward vectors.

A computer chip configured to:

• determine if motion of an object within the displayable output with respect to motion of a background within the displayable output is such that a particular area of an interpolated frame is a reveal region, a conceal region, or neither;
• when the area is neither a reveal region nor a conceal region, use both forward vectors applied to the current frame and backward vectors applied to the previous frame to calculate values for pixels within the area;
• when the area is a reveal region, use forward vectors applied to the current frame and to a frame subsequent to the current frame to calculate values for pixels within the area, without using backward vectors;
• and
• when the area is a conceal region, use backward vectors applied to the previous frame and to a frame prior to the previous frame to calculate values for pixels within the area, without using forward vectors.