deinterlace

present singular third person deinterlaces · participle present deinterlacing · participle past deinterlaced · past deinterlaced

1. transitivebroadcastingTo convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.

   Bob deinterlacing provides good results when the image intensity varies smoothly, but it can soften the image because it also reduces the vertical resolution.

   2013, Michael Parker, Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design, page 43

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   A deinterlace filter for interlaced raster scanned video data receiving sequential fields of video data one pixel at a time with each pixel of video data being received during a pixel time and outputing a deinterlaced frame of video data for each field received, the deinterlace filter comprising […]

   1984, System for spatially transforming images, US Patent 4472732 (PDF version)

   I think that an improved receiver, which could do deinterlacing, doubling the frame rate, perhaps combined with some way of getting rid of subcarrier-related artifacts, might be MAC or something else.

   1985, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 94

   One advantage of MPEG-2 video on DVD is that computers and future players can deinterlace it and display it on progressive-scan HDTV screens, with considerably better quality than today's interlaced screens.

   1998, Jim Taylor, DVD demystified, page 117