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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2019
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Harikrishna Madadi Reddy, San Jose, CA (US);
Xianliang Zha, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Junqiang Lan, Fremont, CA (US);
Sujith Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guogang Hua, San Diego, CA (US);
Chung-Fu Lin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a source block buffer and a plurality of hardware motion estimation search processing units in communication with the source block buffer. The source block buffer is configured to store at least a portion of a source block of a source frame of a video. The plurality of hardware motion estimation search processing units are configured to perform at least a portion of a motion estimation for the source block at least in part in parallel across a plurality of different reference frames of the video. Each of the hardware motion estimation search processing units is configured to be assigned a different one of the plurality of different reference frames and is configured to compare at least the portion of the source block with a portion of the assigned one of the different reference frames.