APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIDEO MOTION COMPENSATION

The present invention relates to a video coder for predictive coding a video stream of subsequent frames according to motion compensation into an encoded video bit stream, comprising a frame buffer (207) adapted to store at least one reference frame of the video stream, said reference frame being different from a current frame of the video stream, an inter prediction unit (210) adapted to generate a prediction block of a current block of the current frame from a reference block of the reference frame, and an adaptive sharpening filter (211) configured to adaptively filter the prediction block. (Figure 2)