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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:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey S. McVeigh, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Keith, Salem, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; H04B 1/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; H04B 1/66 ;
Abstract
A method for encoding video blocks. In one embodiment of the invention, a detector, which compares an observation value associated with each block in a video sequence to a probabilistic threshold in order to predict whether each block is empty or non-empty, is described.