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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1992
Gooitzen S van der Wal, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Joseph O Sinniger, Pennington, NJ (US);
Charles H Anderson, La Canada, CA (US);
RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
First circuit apparatus, comprising a given number of prior-art image-pyramid stages, together with second circuit apparatus, comprising the same given number of novel motion-vector stages, perform cost-effective hierarchical motion analysis (HMA) in real time, with minimum system processing delay and/or employing minimum hardware structure. Specifically, the first and second circuit apparatus, in response to relatively high-resolution image data from an ongoing input series of successive given pixel-density image-data frames that occur at a relatively high frame rate (e.g., 30 frames per second), derives, after a certain processing-system delay, an ongoing output series of successive given pixel-density vector-data frames that occur at the same given frame rate. Each vector-data frame is indicative of image motion occurring between each pair of successive image frames.