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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:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles E. Boice, Endicott, NY (US);
Lawrence D. Curley, Endwell, NY (US);
John M. Kaczmarczyk, Endicott, NY (US);
Agnes Y. Ngai, Endwell, NY (US);
Charles J. Stein, Peckville, PA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/50 ;
Abstract
A digital video encoder system having a motion estimation processor, and an interface to the motion estimation processor. The motion estimation processor includes a reference memory interface, and inverse quantization processor, an inverse discrete cosine transform processor, and a motion estimation processor unit including a hierarchal search unit. The motion estimation processor is utilized generating temporally compressed datastreams, that is, I-P and I-P-B datastreams.