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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Catherine Louise Barnaby, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Limited, Almondsbury Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348396 ; 348384 ; 348416 ; 348715 ; 348717 ;
Abstract
A video signal memory holds blocks of data representing luminance and first and second chrominance signals, the first and second chrominance signals being held in interleaved rows within the blocks, data being transferred from said blocks to a temporary store for use by a processor in predicting picture frames from the stored data.