Abstract: A method for de-interlacing interlaced video includes receiving a first video field and a second video field, generating a first video frame by inserting the first video field in the first video frame on every second line of the first video frame, and by inserting a first synthesized video field on the lines of the first video frame not populated by the first video field. The video data of the first synthesized video field is based on video data of the first and second video fields. A second video frame is generated by inserting the second video field in the first video frame on every second line of the second video frame and by inserting a second synthesized video field on the lines of the second video frame not populated by the second video field. Two de-interlaced video frames are output for every received interlaced video frame.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention extracts a characteristic value of a luminance in relation to respective fields of an input video, and determines the presence of a scene change between adjacent fields. A gamma curve is then generated on the basis of the magnitude of the characteristic value. When a difference in the characteristic value between fields is larger than a predetermined value and a scene change does not exist, the gamma curve to be applied to a subsequent field is modified such that the correction characteristic of the gamma curve does not vary rapidly. The luminance is then corrected using the modified gamma curve.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a digital video segment simulating motion at one speed, the frames in the segment spaced at a uniform time interval. The method further includes receiving a desired speed of motion, determining the appropriate uniform time interval corresponding to the desired speed, and generating a frame sequence simulating the motion at the desired speed, the frames in the generated sequence spaced at the determined appropriate uniform time interval. If the generated frame sequence includes a frame from the original segment, then only frames from the original segment are included in the generated frame sequence, and if the generated frame sequence includes an interpolated frame then only interpolated frames are included in the generated frame sequence.

Abstract: A pixel interpolation process is based on detection of a potential edge in proximity to a pixel being estimated, and the angle thereof. The potential edge and its angle is determined based on filtering of offset or overlapping sets of lines from a pixel window centered around the pixel being estimated and then cross-correlating the filter results. The highest value in the correlation result values represents a potential edge in proximity to the pixel being estimated and the index of the highest value represents the angle of the potential edge. This information is used in conjunction with other information from the cross-correlation and analysis of the differences between pixels in proximity to verify the validity of the potential edge. If determined to be valid, a diagonal interpolation based on the edge and its angle is used to estimate the pixel value of the pixel. Otherwise, an alternate interpolation process, such as vertical interpolation, is used to estimate the pixel value for the pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which converts a frame rate by dividing an input frame into sub-frames and outputting the sub-frames, includes a minimum value filter unit, a low-pass filter processing unit, a generation unit, and a switching unit. In an input frame, the minimum value filter unit selects a maximum value of minimum values from the minimum values of pixel values in each horizontal line in a predetermined area including peripheral pixels of a processing target pixel, and performs pre-processing to replace the processing target pixel with the maximum value. The low-pass filter processing unit performs low-pass filter processing on the pre-processed input frame and generates a first sub-frame. The generation unit generates a second sub-frame from the first sub-frame and the input frame. The switching unit switches the first sub-frame and the second sub-frame at predetermined timing and outputs a sub-frame.

Abstract: A video processing system may receive a current raw video frame and may estimate motion between the current frame and a previous frame to determine motion vectors (mv). Based on the same mvs, motion compensated (MC) noise reduction may be performed and MC frame rate conversion (FRC) may generate a new frame. The previous frame may be noise reduced and/or a raw video frame. A MC frame may be generated based on the previous video frame and the mvs. Noise reduction may comprise blending the current raw frame with the MC frame. A blending factor may be determined based on similarity between pixels of the current video frame and MC pixels of the previous frame. The mvs may be scaled for FRC. Noise reduction may be performed in parallel and/or prior to the FRC depending on whether raw or noise reduced frames are utilized.

Abstract: Displaying a stream of video data on a display device may be performed by decoding a portion of the video data to form a video frame. A queue time is determined when the video frame should be displayed. The queue time is adjusted by a margin time relative to a next display time to compensate for interrupt jitter, wherein the margin time is less than a period of time between periodic display time events and is larger than a specified interrupt jitter time. A software interrupt event is set to occur corresponding to the adjusted queue time. The video frame is queued in response to occurrence of the software interrupt. The queued video frame is transferred to a display buffer for the display device upon the occurrence of a next display time event after the occurrence of the software interrupt.

Abstract: This invention relates to video transmission systems, in particular to those used to transmit video content generated and displayed on a source device to a second remote display. We describe a method of transmitting a video stream over a data link is described. Video frames are captured at a capture frame rate. The captured frames are then processed to identify duplicated frames in consecutively captured frames. Duplicated frames, duplicated as a result of capture the same source frame twice, are deleted leaving a filtered set of video frames. The remaining frames are retimed to amend a presentation time and transmitted over a data link to a rendering device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has: a first motion vector calculation unit which determines a first motion vector between one image frame and an image frame immediately before this one image frame in a second image frame group which frame rate is an n number of frames per predetermined time; a second motion vector calculation unit which determines a second motion vector between one image frame and an image frame which is n frames before the one image frame in the second image frame group; and a detection unit which detects that the second image frame group has been obtained from a first image frame group which frame rate is an m number of frames per the predetermined time by the frame conversion, when the ratio of the first motion vector and the second motion vector is in a predetermined range.

Abstract: A picture signal processing unit having a first and a second double rate conversion section, a storage section, and a quadruple rate conversion section is provided. The first double rate conversion section inserts a first interpolation frame between a couple of successive original frames to output the original frames and the first interpolation frames. The second double rate conversion section generates a second and a third interpolation frames and allocates the second and the third interpolation frames between the couple of successive original frames to output the second and the third interpolation frames. The storage section stores the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames. The quadruple rate conversion section sequentially reads out the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames from the storage section in a quadruple rate to output the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames.

Abstract: A video processing method and a device thereof are described. The method includes the steps as follows. An input video signal is received, in which a single period of the input video signal has a plurality of first input frames and a plurality of second input frames. The input video signal is processed, so as to generate an output video signal, in which a single period of the output video signal has a plurality of first output frames and a plurality of second output frames, and an amount of the first output frames is the same as an amount of the second output frames. A sum of the amount of the first output frames and the amount of second output frames is an integer multiple of a sum of an amount of the first input frames and an amount of the second input frames.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input video data, a setting unit configured to set a progressing speed of the video data that is inputted, an interpolation processing unit configured to perform interpolation processing corresponding to the progressing speed that is set, with respect to the video data that is inputted, and an imparting unit configured to impart a time code to all frames constituting interpolated video data that is obtained as a result of the interpolation processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has a frame buffer that stores an input video signal, that loads a video signal at an asynchronous timing with the video signal input from the frame buffer and then that I/P-converts the loaded video signal from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal includes: pulldown determination means that determines whether the input video signal is subjected to a process of skipping or repeating a source video signal through a pulldown process; and control means that, when it is determined that the input video signal is subjected to the process of skipping or repeating, controls a process of skipping or repeating the loaded video signal to obtain a pulldown pattern supported at an I/P conversion side at which the I/P-conversion is performed, when the loaded video signal is converted from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a conversion unit for converting first video data having a first frame rate to second video data having a second frame rate which is “n” times as high as the first frame rate (“n” being an integer of two or larger), and a display unit for displaying the second video data. When the first video data is video data of two successive frame images having different brightnesses, the conversion unit performs a first frame rate converting process for converting the first video data to the second video data by outputting a frame image group made of two successive frame images in the first video data “n” times in a row at the second frame rate. Consequently, the frame rate converting process can be performed without causing a deterioration of a visual effect such as an HDR effect, and a viewing environment comfortable for the user can be realized.

Abstract: Methods and systems for pre-processing a progressive scan signal comprise: receiving by a processor thea progressive scan signal; detecting an amount of vertical motion present in the progressive scan signal; low pass filtering the progressive scan signal in a vertical domain as a function of the amount of vertical motion present to generate a pre-filtered progressive signal; and interlacing the pre-filtered progressive signal to generate an interlaced signal having a minimal amount of artifacts.

Abstract: A frame interpolation apparatus receives moving images from an image generating apparatus that outputs moving images by increasing the number of frames by adding n units (n being a natural number) of copy frame following each frame of the moving images. A frame acquisition unit samples a frame from the moving images in cycles of (n+1) frames. An interpolated frame generation unit generates an interpolated frame to be inserted between the frames sampled by the frame acquisition unit. An identity determining unit determines the identity of successive frames of the moving images. A sampling point changing unit shifts a sampling point while keeping fixed cycles when there is a succession of less than or more than (n+1) frames determined to be identical by the identity determining unit and besides a certain condition is met.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a video signal processing method and apparatus. In an embodiment of the present invention, video having a second screen size is generated from input video having a first screen size through Wavelet/Bicubic video interpolation, and a parallel Projection Onto Convex Sets (POCS) method is applied to the generated video having the second screen size. In this embodiment, the video having the second screen size, which is generated through Wavelet/Bicubic video interpolation, is used as an initial value for the POCS method, and a motion component estimated based on the video having the first screen size and the video having the second screen size obtained through the use of the POCS method is used as a correction value for the POCS method. Accordingly, HD-class video can be rapidly produced from SD-class video without image degradation.

Abstract: To enable a progressive synthesization process suited to each video signal even in such a case that a difference between video signals based on a video transmission sequence and the video signals not based on the video transmission sequence, is fuzzy.

Abstract: A method for setting a frame rate conversion (FRC) and a display apparatus using the same are provided. According to a method for setting FRC, an FRC level is received from a user; and a motion estimation and motion compensation level when performing FRC is set according to the input FRC level. Therefore, a user may set the FRC level according to the user's preference.

Abstract: At least a method and a system are described for providing frame rate upconversion by way of using “short side” or bidirectional interpolation in generating interpolated frames. In a representative embodiment, the method may comprise receiving a first frame of video corresponding to a first frame time and a second frame of the video corresponding to a second frame time, computing a first absolute difference between the first frame time and an interpolated frame time wherein the interpolated frame time temporally is located between the first frame time and the second frame time. The method further comprises using a first motion vector field and the first frame to compute a third frame at the interpolated frame time. The method further comprises outputting the third frame as the interpolated frame at the interpolated frame time if the first absolute difference is less than or equal to a first threshold value.

Abstract: A device and method for controlling frame input and output are applied to the reception of image data from a source device and output of the image data to a destination device, the device includes a buffer, a buffer control circuit, and a frame write controller. The input pixel clock is not equal to the output pixel clock. The frame write controller generates a write permission signal according to the Input DE and the Output DE. The buffer control circuit generates a write control signal according to the Input DE and the write permission signal, and generates a read control signal according to the Output DE. The buffer receives the image data from the source device according to the write control signal and the input pixel clock, and outputs the image data to the destination device according to the read control signal and the output pixel clock.

Abstract: At the time of dividing an input frame into multiple subframes and performing frame rate conversion, a frame rate conversion apparatus detects the degree of motion of each region composed of one or more pixels in the input frame, and determines a spatial frequency for each region in the multiple subframes according to the detected degree of motion of the region. The conversion apparatus then converts each region in the multiple subframes to the determined spatial frequency, divides the input frame into those subframes whose regions have been converted, and outputs the subframes.

Abstract: An image processing device and method, and an image display device and method which realizes a high-definition displayed video by reducing motion blur caused by a holding-type display system and reducing motion blurs of the displayed video caused by the time integration effect of an image sensor while suppressing deterioration of an image. The image display device includes a motion vector detection section (101) which detects a motion vector in each predetermined region between the frames of an inputted image signal, and an edge emphasis part (2) which emphasizes the high-frequency component of the inputted image signal and an interpolated image signal generated by an FRC part (100) according to the motion amount of the inputted image signal detected by the motion vector detection section (101). This compensates the high-frequency component attenuated by the time integration effect of the image sensor to reduce the apparent motion blurs to improve the sharpness of the displayed image.

Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally continuous pictures having a high frame rate to provide picture data having a plurality of layers. Decimated data may be set as the high frame rate layer data. In this manner, the quantity of data to be transmitted or stored is reduced.

Abstract: It is an object to suppress a disturbance or distortion of an insertion image in the vicinity of an effective image edge portion such as an edge portion of a screen or the like caused by a moving compensation type frame rate conversion (FRC). An image processing device is provided with a moving vector detection circuit (2) for detecting a moving vector of an input image signal, an effective image edge portion judging circuit (5) for judging if a moving vector detecting position is adjacent to the effective image edge portion, and a vector switching circuit (3) for switching a vector in accordance with the judging result. The vector switching circuit (3) fixes the vector to 0 vector in the case where the moving vector detecting position is adjacent to the effective image edge portion. In the case where the position is in other region, the vector switching circuit (3) outputs the moving vector detected by the moving vector detection circuit (2) to an insertion vector allocation circuit (4).

Abstract: Systems and methods of coding progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display are provided. Some systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems and methods. Film material may be encoded as video material with an intended field polarity and an explicit 3:2 pull-down operation for interlaced display (e.g., a 30-frames-per-second display).

Abstract: In a device for processing baseband signal images (BS), a film detector determines whether a same baseband signal image includes both information from a film image and information from a video source image, information from one film image being present in at least two baseband signal images while information from one video source image is present in only one baseband signal image. A processing unit processing the baseband signal images in such a manner that in the presence of both information from the film image and information from the video source image in the same baseband signal image, for each film image only one of the at least two baseband signal images is used to obtain a display signal image (DS).

Abstract: A video processing apparatus for converting frame rates of video signals includes: a video characteristic detection unit (29) that detects, from an input video signal, as characteristics of the video signal, whether or not the video signal is of a film material and/or whether or not character information is displayed in the video signal; and an interpolation phase calculation unit (21) to a merge unit (28) that constitute an image generation unit that uses the characteristics detected by the video characteristic detection unit, to generate an intermediate frame image having a phase different from the phase of an input frame image of the video signal. In accordance with the characteristics detected by the characteristic detection unit, the image generation unit moves the phase of the intermediate frame image to a phase different from a logical interpolation phase determined based on an input frame frequency and an output frame frequency.

Abstract: A frame rate conversion apparatus and method for an Ultra-High Definition (UD) image. The frame rate conversion apparatus may store a previous frame and a current frame of an edge of an input image, divided into N images, and insert an interpolation frame between the current frame and the previous frame. Also, the frame rate conversion apparatus may convert a frame rate of each of the N images.

Abstract: At the time of dividing an input frame into multiple subframes and performing frame rate conversion, a frame rate conversion apparatus detects the degree of motion of each region composed of one or more pixels in the input frame, and determines a spatial frequency for each region in the multiple subframes according to the detected degree of motion of the region. The conversion apparatus then converts each region in the multiple subframes to the determined spatial frequency, divides the input frame into those subframes whose regions have been converted, and outputs the subframes.

Abstract: A field pair correlation acquisition part obtains a correlation for six or more fields which are continuous in time series for each field pair formed of two adjacent fields having the same attribute. A first determination part determines an input image as a 2:2 pull-down image based on a determination condition, the determination condition being that a pattern in which the correlation of each of the field pairs of one attribute changes along with a time direction matches a pattern in which the correlation of each of the field pairs of the other attribute changes along with the time direction.

Abstract: A method of displaying a video of a scene on a display with reduced motion blur includes: providing the video of a scene having first subframes that have a first input rate and second subframes that have a second input rate, wherein the first subframes correspond to a first region of the display and the second subframes correspond to a second region of the display; and selectively providing the first and second subframes to corresponding regions in the display, and providing the first region of the display with a first update rate and the second region of the display with a second update rate, wherein the first update rate is greater than the second update rate, so that the displayed image has reduced motion blur.

Abstract: There is provided an image determining device including a frequency band signal detecting unit for dividing an image into a plurality of local regions and detecting for each local region signals of a plurality of frequency bands from the image signal; an average value calculating unit for calculating an average value of a characteristic value corresponding to an amplitude, for each local region and for each signal of the plurality of frequency bands; a local region selecting unit for selecting at least one local region based on image information; an average value selecting unit for selecting the average value corresponding to the selected local region; a relative value calculating unit for calculating a relative value of one average value with respect to another average value both of the average values being of the selected average values; and an image determining unit for determining an image based on the relative value.

Abstract: This invention concerns the interpolation of new intermediate images within an existing set of related images, for example views of a scene captured at different times, such as a sequence of film frames or video fields, or views of a scene captured from different camera positions, either simultaneously or in a time sequence. Motion vectors established for pixels or regions in at least one existing image are used to shift those pixels or regions to the output position of the new image. The shifted pixels or regions are combined in dependence on a probability of accuracy measure for the respective motion vector. The probability of accuracy measure may be formed from displaced-field difference measurements. The occlusion of objects is determined and used in forming the probability of accuracy measure.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating a shutter-time compensated high spatial resolution (HR) image output by enhancing lower spatial resolution (LR) video images with information obtained from higher spatial resolution still images which are temporally decimated. Super-resolved images and LR SAD information is generated from the LR images and used for directing the extracting of information from the temporally decimated HR images to enhance the spatial resolution of the LR images in a blending process. By way of example blending can comprise: motion estimation, motion compensation of a temporally displaced HR still images and a super-resolved (SR) image input, transformation (e.g., DCT), generating motion error output, blending motion compensated images in response to LR motion error information; inverse-transformation into a shutter-time compensated HR video image output. Accordingly, a more cost effective solution is taught for obtaining a desired shutter time and video resolution.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention extracts a characteristic value of a luminance in relation to respective fields of an input video, and determines the presence of a scene change between adjacent fields. A gamma curve is then generated on the basis of the magnitude of the characteristic value. When a difference in the characteristic value between fields is larger than a predetermined value and a scene change does not exist, the gamma curve to be applied to a subsequent field is modified such that the correction characteristic of the gamma curve does not vary rapidly. The luminance is then corrected using the modified gamma curve.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a conversion unit for converting first video data having a first frame rate to second video data having a second frame rate which is “n” times as high as the first frame rate (“n” being an integer of two or larger), and a display unit for displaying the second video data. When the first video data is video data of two successive frame images having different brightnesses, the conversion unit performs a first frame rate converting process for converting the first video data to the second video data by outputting a frame image group made of two successive frame images in the first video data “n” times in a row at the second frame rate. Consequently, the frame rate converting process can be performed without causing a deterioration of a visual effect such as an HDR effect, and a viewing environment comfortable for the user can be realized.

Abstract: The object is to provide a video signal processing apparatus capable of minimizing overtaking of fields of a video signal and continuous display of the video signal of the same field and reducing degradation in image quality of the output video signal. The apparatus has a field signal holding section 9 which holds the value of an input field signal and outputs the held value as a held value signal and a readout determination section 10 which determines the video signal of the field to be read out, and which outputs the determined signal as a readout field signal. The field signal holding section 9 holds the value of the input field signal a plurality of times with every occurrence of the readout field signal period, and outputs a held value signal constituted of the plurality of values of the input field signal held.

Abstract: A de-interlacing method includes the following steps. A de-interlacing pixel datum of a target pixel is obtained according to a current field and multiple correlated fields. A caption region of the current field is defined according to the fields, and a region motion vector and a region confidence are correspondingly obtained. When the target pixel belongs to the caption region, a compensation pixel datum of the target pixel is obtained by motion compensation according to at least a part of the fields and the region motion vector, and the target pixel is judged as a foreground pixel or a background pixel to output a compensation select signal according to the region motion vector and the region confidence. The de-interlacing pixel datum or the compensation pixel datum is outputted as a correlated pixel datum of the target pixel according to the compensation select signal.

Abstract: The object is to provide a video signal processing apparatus capable of minimizing overtaking of fields of a video signal and continuous display of the video signal of the same field and reducing degradation in image quality of the output video signal. The apparatus has a field signal holding section 9 which holds the value of an input field signal and outputs the held value as a held value signal and a readout determination section 10 which determines the video signal of the field to be read out, and which outputs the determined signal as a readout field signal. The field signal holding section 9 holds the value of the input field signal a plurality of times with every occurrence of the readout field signal period, and outputs a held value signal constituted of the plurality of values of the input field signal held.

Abstract: An image signal processing unit and an image signal processing method thereof. An image signal processing unit estimates motion characteristics of an input image, and adjusts a phase of an interpolation frame according to the motion characteristics when converting a frame rate. Accordingly, linearity can be maintained according to the motion characteristics of an input image, and the frame rate can be converted without generating noise such as halo artifacts.

Abstract: An image processing device (200) according to the present invention includes: a shooting period obtaining unit (205) configured to obtain a shooting period; an imaging unit (202) which includes a plurality of pixels each converting light into an electrical signal, and which has a first mode in which a low-resolution image signal is outputted and a second mode in which a high-resolution image signal is outputted, the low-resolution image signal including electrical signals converted by a first number of pixels among the plurality of pixels, the high-resolution image signal including electrical signals converted by a second number of pixels among the plurality of pixels, and the second number being greater than the first number; a control unit (210) configured to cause the imaging unit (202) to operate in the first mode during the shooting period, and to operate in the second mode during a period other than the shooting period; and a super-resolution unit (203) configured to generate a super-resolution image si

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for detecting a bad edit. The method includes receiving a 3:2 film-mode video signal comprising a sequence of video fields, for each of the sequence of video fields, determining a state for the each video field based on a first moving-pixel count for the each video field with respect to a previous same-parity video field for the each video field and a second moving-pixel count for a first immediately preceding field for the each video field with respect to a second previous same-parity field for the first immediately preceding field, and identifying the 3:2 film-mode video signal as a bad edit if a predetermined state transition has been detected in the sequence of video fields.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing image data in a portable terminal including obtaining a first image having a first resolution for display from an image obtaining unit of the portable terminal, receiving a semi-shutter signal during display of the first image on a display unit of the portable terminal, obtaining a second image having a second resolution from the image obtaining unit in response to the semi-shutter signal prior to receiving a full-shutter signal, and capturing a still image from the second image when the full-shutter signal is received.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present application, a frame interpolation circuit performs frame interpolation on an input video signal, and outputs a drive video signal containing original and interpolation frames. A motion determination circuit outputs a control signal in accordance with the amount of motion, based on a motion vector obtained by a motion detection circuit. In accordance with the control signal, the frame interpolation circuit increases the proportion of interpolation frames contained in the drive video signal as motion in an image increases, while increasing the proportion of original frames contained in the drive video signal as the motion in the image decreases. As a result, any moving image blur due to following line of sight and noise generated in the interpolation frames are reduced.

Abstract: An image processing engine, comprising: a frame rate conversion entity configured to: (a) generate output pictures from input pictures, the output pictures comprising a set of first output pictures and a plurality of sets of second output pictures, each set of second output pictures being associated with one of the first output pictures, each of the first output pictures being derived from a respective one of the input pictures; and (b) control generation of the set of second output pictures associated with a particular first output picture based upon repetitive pattern presence detection within a related picture that is either (i) the particular first output picture or (ii) the input picture from which the particular first output picture was derived.

Abstract: A video processor receives an interlaced video comprising source video content and video overlay content. A progressive video of the received interlaced video is used for video overlay detection. The received interlaced video is deinterlaced and converted to a high frame-rate progressive video for display. Video overlay detection and frame based cadence detection are performed independently during frame-rate conversion. Candidate cadences are detected for each video frame. Decisions on final cadences for each video frame are made based on the detected candidate cadences and the detected video overlay content. A frame-rate upconversion is performed according to the final cadence detection decisions. Video frame differences between each video frame and associated adjacent video frames are generated for video overlay detection. Pixel values per line are integrated for each generated video frame difference.

Abstract: A method for cadence detection in a sequence of video fields is based on at least a search for cadence patterns in a sequence of bits representative of the motion in at least a part of the field from one field to another in the field sequence. The signaling of field skip and/or field repeat commands as applied to the fields in the field sequence is considered during the cadence detection operation so as to field skips and repeats.

Abstract: Method of transferring digital data between a client device and a server device on a communication network, said method being implemented within said server device and comprising: i) coming from the client device, receiving a request in markup format for the delivery of a digital object or part of a chosen digital object, ii) obtaining in the communication network a representation of the object requested, iii) checking whether the representation of the object thus obtained corresponds to a data compression format of the progressive type, iv) in the event of a positive check, dividing the digital object into a plurality of sub-parts, to each sub-part there being allocated a high priority rank defined according to at least one chosen criterion, and v) sending to the client device a response in markup format comprising the sub-parts of the digital object in binary format and associated priority ranks in markup format.

Abstract: A method for efficient digital capturing of analog video signals of computer game consoles is provided. The video format of the signal is changed from 480p to 720p, without any scaling artifacts. The number of active horizontal resolution lines and active vertical resolution lines is reduced in the higher definition space, so that the output picture is a pixel-for-pixel transformed replica of the 480p image.