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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:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideyuki Narita, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
Abstract
A control circuit specifies a first search area by using a motion vector found in units of macroblocks between a plurality of frames located previous to first frame, specifies a second search area by using a simplified motion vector indicating the motion of an image between the first frame, the second frame, and a frame located in time between the first frame and the second frame, and designates a search area by switching the first search area and the second search area suitably.