Method and apparatus for determining true motion vectors for selected pixels

摘要

An apparatus determines true motion vectors between a current and its previous frames for feature points selected from the previous frame wherein a selected feature point is surrounded by its neighboring four feature points to form a previous rhombus having a set of four triangles based on the selected feature point. A motion vector displacement generator gives a predetermined N number of displacements to an initial motion vector for its corresponding feature points to thereby produce a subset of N candidate motion vectors and a motion prediction block provides a current rhombus corresponding to the previous rhombus by the initial motion vectors, wherein the current rhombus has N sets of four triangles due to the N candidate motion vectors. A true motion vector is selected from the subset of N candidate motion vectors, which entails a minimum error value between the predicted pixel values for each triangle set in the current rhombus and their respective corresponding current pixel values from the previous frame.