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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Karl O Lillevold, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348415 ; 348409 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for adaptively enabling a PB frames mode for video data processing. If the PB frames mode is enabled for a given pair of video pictures, and if the motion compensated prediction error for the B-picture in the most recently encoded PB frame is greater than the motion compensated prediction error for the P-picture in same PB frame multiplied by a constant, the PB frames mode is disabled for the PB frame. Otherwise, the PB frames mode remains enabled. If the PB frame is disabled by the PB decision logic, it may remain disabled until certain encoding parameters are met.