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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ravi Krishnamurthy, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Tihao Chiang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Ya-Qin Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Zudong Song, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and a concomitant method for using M-ary pyramid decomposition to reduce the computational complexity in determining motion vectors for block-based motion estimation is disclosed.