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

• US 8,929,434 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2007
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Patential Holdings, Inc., Typenex Co-Investment, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
• Inventors: Bailey, Kenneth Stephen, Carmichael, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Kibrom T
• Application Number:
  US11/866,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20080106639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,652 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 375/240.01
• 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 multiple video frames from a cellular phone;

determining areas of motions within the video frames from the cellular phone;

based on said areas of motions, separating the video frames into motion areas and background areas; and

separating the background areas from the motion areas; and

recasting the frame at a higher resolution format by using a computer for expanding the background areas to fill a higher resolution format frame, where the higher resolution format frame has a wider aspect ratio than the video frames from the cellular phone, and the expanding of the background area uses those background areas to fill the wider format aspect ratio, while using motion compensation to reduce distortion in the motion areas, to convert the multiple video frames from the cellular phone from a format intended for a cellular telephone screen to the higher resolution format frame.

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

4. A method as in claim 1, wherein said recasting recasts the video frames to fill a 16×

9 image screen using expansion of the background.

3. A method comprising:

using a computer for converting a video from a cellular phone to a size that can be displayed on a high definition display screen greater than 720i, and at an aspect ratio of 16×

9, wherein said computer separates background areas from motion areas in the video, and recasts the video at a higher resolution format by expanding background areas to fill a higher resolution format frame, where the higher resolution format frame has a wider aspect ratio than the video from the cellular phone, and the expanding of the background area uses those background areas to fill the wider format aspect ratio.

5. A video converting system, comprising:

a processor obtaining multiple video frames from a cellular phone, determining areas of motions within the video frames from the cellular phone, and based on said areas of motion, separating the video frames into motion areas and background areas, said processor separating the background areas from the motion areas, and recasting the video frames at a higher resolution format by expanding the background areas to fill the higher resolution format frame, where the higher resolution format frame has a wider aspect ratio than the video frames from the cellular phone, and the processor expands the background area by using those background areas to fill the wider format aspect ratio, while using motion compensation to reduce distortion in the motion areas, to convert the multiple video frames from the cellular phone from a format intended for a cellular telephone screen to the higher resolution format frame.

6. A system as in claim 5, wherein said motion areas of the video frames represent areas with motion vectors greater than a specified amount.

7. A system as in claim 5, wherein said recasting recasts the frame to fill a 16×

9 image screen using expansion of the background areas.