Movement estimation method for e.g. computer system, involves electing movement vector among generated candidate movement vectors and storing information associating elected movement vector to current image in sequence

摘要

The method involves selecting respective movement vectors associated to images preceding current image in a sequence. Candidate movement vectors are generated from selected vectors and one movement vector is elected among candidate movement vectors. Information associating the elected movement vector to the current image is stored in order to select the elected vector for applying the method to following images. Independent claims are also included for the following: (A) a movement estimation system comprising a movement estimation device for processing images succeeding in a determined image sequence (B) a computer program product directly loaded in an internal memory of a digital computer comprises portions of software code for executing steps of movement estimation method.