1. Method for processing video pictures, e.g. for false contour effect compensation, the video pictures consisting of pixels, the pixels being digitally coded with at least one digital code word, wherein to each bit of a digital code word a certain duration is assigned, hereinafter called sub-field, during which the whole pixel or a component of the pixel is activated, wherein a motion vector is calculated for a pixel, and the motion vector is used for updating the at least one sub-field code word of the pixel for picture quality improvement, characterized in that it is checked in the current picture whether there is an area which is currently hidden but appears in a next video picture, then the sub-field code words of pixels from the appearing area in the current picture are updated by utilizing sub-field code word entries of pixels from the appeared area in a next video picture.