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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Madhukar Budagavi, Plano, TX (US);
Ankur Saxena, Dallas, TX (US);
Jeffrey Wilkinson, Flower Mound, TX (US);
John Furton, Dallas, TX (US);
Andrew Dickerson, Allen, TX (US);
Guoxin Jin, Evanston, IL (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A video processing unit and method for region adaptive smoothing. The image processing unit includes a memory and one or more processors. The one or processors are operably connected to the memory and configured to stitch together a plurality of video frames into a plurality of equirectangular mapped frames of a video. The one or processors are configured to define a top region and a bottom region for each of the equirectangular mapped frames of the video; perform a smoothing process on the top region and the bottom region for each of the equirectangular mapped frames of the video; and encode the smoothed equirectangular mapped frames of the video.