Video enhancement Internet media experience in converting high definition formats to video formats

• US 20080106639A1
• Filed: 10/03/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Patential Holdings, Inc., Typenex Co-Investment, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings
• Inventors: Bailey, Kenneth, Carmichael, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 8,929,434 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/04 Context-preserving transformations, e.g. by using an importance map panospheric to cylindrical image transformations G06T3/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/139 Analysis of motion vectors, e.g. their magnitude, direction, variance or reliability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/17 the unit being an image region, e.g. an object
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/59 involving spatial sub-sampling or interpolation, e.g. alteration of picture size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/63 using sub-band based transform, e.g. wavelets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0125 one of the standards being a high definition standard

Abstract

Image or video from a cell phone is processed to expand the image in a way to display it on a high definition video screen.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

obtaining a video frame from a cellular phone;

determining areas of motions within the video from the cellular phones;

based on said areas of motion, determining portions of the image which represent dynamic portions of the image; and

compressing said dynamic portions of the image, and interpolating other portions of the image in a way that allows converting the cellular phone from a format intended for a cellular telephone screen to a high definition format.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said dynamic portions of the image represent areas with motion vectors greater than a specified amount.

3. A method comprising:

Converting a video from a cellular phone to a size that can be displayed on a high definition display screen greater than 720 i.