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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Xiang-Gen Xia, Newark, DE (US);
Roy M Matic, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
An object-based image/video coding algorithm that encodes arbitrary shaped objects using LOTs defined on rectangular and L-shaped regions. The regions of support of the blocks in the L-shaped regions are extended to form tapered overlapping regions that meet at the object's exterior and concave corners. The overlapping regions taper to the corners with a slope having a magnitude .delta./.epsilon., where .delta. and .epsilon. are the amounts of overlap between the blocks. This allows the basis and tapered window functions to be defined in the L-shaped region and specifically in the tapered overlapping regions in a manner that maintains the orthogonality of the basis functions while providing a smooth transition at the edges.