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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin Harney, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348699 ; 348416 ; 382236 ;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for encoding image signals. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a plurality of search blocks is selected in accordance with the location of a reference block of a current frame. A plurality of words corresponding to the plurality of search blocks is read from a memory device. A difference measurement for each search block of the plurality of search blocks with respect to the reference block is determined from the plurality of words and from the reference block.