High Frame Motion Compensated Color Sequencing System and Method
A system and method for generating high frame rate motion compensated color sequencing data for a color sequential display system. A high frame rate motion compensation color sequencing system ( 10 ) is provided, comprising: a system for receiving a first input frame and a second input frame, and for receiving motion vectors ( 18 ) associated with the input frames ( 16 ); and an interpolation system ( 12 ) that processes the motion vectors and input frames and generates high frame rate motion compensated color sequence data ( 20 ) with an output frame rate defined by an upconversion factor ( 26 ).
1 . A high frame rate motion compensation color sequencing system ( 10 ), comprising:
a system for receiving a first input frame and a second input frame, and for receiving motion vectors ( 18 ) associated with the input frames ( 16 ); and
an interpolation system ( 12 ) that processes the motion vectors and input frames and generates high frame rate motion compensated color sequence data ( 20 ) with an output frame rate defined by an upconversion factor ( 26 ) having a value greater than one.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the upconversion factor is an integer.
3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the interpolation system includes frame-based interpolation for upconverting frames of color data.
4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the interpolation system includes field-based interpolation for upconverting fields of color data.
5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the upconversion factor is a non-integer.
6 . The system of claim 4 , further comprising a system for reducing motion phase calculations that only calculates a motion phase for every nth field of color data.
7 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a non-uniform time spacing system.
8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the input frames and high frame rate motion compensated color sequence data comprise color data in a format selected from the group consisting of: RBG and YUV.
9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein a brightest color field in each input frame is used as a time reference such that the field is shown directly in the output without being interpolated.
10 . A method for generating high frame rate motion compensated color sequencing data ( 20 ), comprising:
receiving a first input frame, a second input frame, and motion vectors (I 8 ) associated with the input frames ( 16 ); and
interpolating the first and second input frames using the motion vectors (I 8 ) to generate high frame rate motion compensated color sequence data ( 20 ) during a defined output time period, wherein a frame rate for the defined output time period is dictated by an upconversion factor ( 26 ).
11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the upconversion factor is an integer.
12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the interpolation step upconverts frames of color data.
13 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the interpolation step upconverts fields of color data.
14 . The method of claim 13 , comprising the further step of reducing motion phase calculations by calculating a motion phase only for every nth field of color data.
15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the upconversion factor is a non-integer.
16 . The method of claim 10 , comprising the further step of non-uniformly time spacing color field data.
17 . A color sequential display ( 11 ) having a system for generating high frame rate motion compensated color sequencing data ( 20 ), comprising:
means for calculating motion phases ( 14 ) based on an upconversion factor to determine temporal locations for outputted color sequence data;
means for receiving a first input frame, a second input frame, and motion vectors ( 18 ) associated with the input frames ( 16 ); and
means for positionally interpolating the first and second input frames ( 12 ) at the calculated motion phases using the motion vectors.
18 . The display of claim 17 , wherein the upconversion factor is a non-integer.
19 . The display of claim 17 , wherein the interpolating means upconverts frames of color data.
20 . The display of claim 17 , wherein the interpolating means upconverts fields of color data.
21 . The display of claim 17 , comprising further means for reducing motion phase calculations by calculating a motion phase only for every nth field of color data.
22 . The display of claim 17 , further comprising means for non-uniformly time spacing color field data.
23 . The display of claim 17 , wherein a brightest color field in each input frame is used as a time reference such that the field is shown directly in the output without being interpolated.