US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on Dec. 16 for "Video deinterlacing using bidirectional temporal information" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,995, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich).

"Video deinterlacing using bidirectional temporal information" was invented by Yang Zhang (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Zhaowei Gao (Zurich, Switzerland), Mingyang Song (Zurich, Switzerland) and Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a video including interlaced frames. Second fields for a second frame and the second fields for a third frame are analyzed to determine estimated second fields for the first fram...