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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1997
Angshuman Saha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satish Soman, Cupertino, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A video decoder is provided with robust error handling and concealment. In one embodiment, the video decoder detects syntactic, semantic, and coding errors in encoded slices of macroblocks. An error handler determines the number of remaining un-decoded macroblocks in the corrupted slice and replaces these corrupted macroblocks using substitute DCT coefficient matrices and motion vectors. The zero-frequency DCT coefficient of each substitute matrix is set equal to the zero-frequency DCT coefficient of the last uncorrupted macroblock, while the higher frequency DCT coefficients are set equal to zero. The substitute motion vectors are provided from a concealment vector memory which buffers the motion vectors of the previous macroblock row. In this way, intelligent approximations are made for the missing macroblocks, effectively masking the video bitstream error.