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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ravi Krishnamurthy, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Sriram Sethuraman, Hightstown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06R 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06R 9/36 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for reducing memory resource requirements in, e.g., an image processing system by utilizing a packed data pixel representation and, optionally, M-ary pyramid decomposition, for pixel block or pixel group searching and matching operations.