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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1996
Tommy C Poon, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Huifang Sun, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Jay Bao, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anthony Vetro, Staten Island, NY (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc. (ITA), Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A digital video decoder and method therefor receives a digital video signal and performs motion compensation on the digital video signal in the frequency domain. The motion compensation is performed by forming, for each inter-coded picture in the digital video signal, a composite picture in the frequency domain representing a reference picture corresponding to the inter-coded picture, and then adding the composite picture to the corresponding inter-coded picture. Each macro block of the composite picture is formed based on corresponding macro blocks of at least one anchor picture stored in memory. The anchor pictures are stored as compressed bits via quantization and variable length coding of frequency domain blocks to reduce required memory capacity. The synthesis technique employed by the compositor to form the composite macro blocks accounts for both field and frame motion compensation with half-pel accuracy. The intra-coded pictures produced as a result of the motion compensation are then reformatted in a display order.