US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "Video frame rate conversion method supporting replacement of motion-compensated frame interpolation with linear combination of frames and device implementing the same" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,448, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video frame rate conversion method supporting replacement of motion-compensated frame interpolation with linear combination of frames and device implementing the same" was invented by Petr Pohl (Moscow), Sergei Dmitrievich Ilichev (Moscow) and Igor Mironovich Kovliga (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video frame rate conversion (FRC) method, including obtaining at least one pair of frames of a video; partitioning each frame into a plurality of blocks; estimating motion a block-by-block basis to obtain: a forward motion field includin...