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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382233 ; 382236 ; 348402 ; 348405 ;
Abstract
A video decoding apparatus and method greatly reduces the computational burden of video decoding by processing several pixels in parallel, thereby reducing the computational load by a factor approximating the number of pixels processed at one time.