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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Didier J Legall, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395114 ; 348402 ; 348403 ; 348407 ; 348408 ; 348409 ; 348413 ; 348416 ; 348415 ; 358426 ;
Abstract
A rate control algorithm for an MPEG-2 compliant encoder of the present invention has embodiments useful for constant bit rate and variable bit rate encoding. In particular, the invention relates to a three stage hierarchial motion vector determination.