1. In a method for the motion adaptive interpolation of nontransmitted television image sequences, each based on at least two transmitted television image sequences, by receiving the transmitted sequences and segmentally dividing the received sequences into stationary and moving components, and determining the displacement of the moving components by picture elements, the improvement comprising: electronically segmentally dividing each sequence into background regions which are revealed and background regions which are to become hidden due to the movement of each moving component and deriving characteristic segment information having four possible values; deriving a set of filter coefficients from the character segment information and from information obtained by said step of determining; and applying the filter coefficients to a motion adaptive interpolation filter for causing the filter to generate the nontransmitted image sequences.