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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Adrian Stephen Butter, Binghamton, NY (US);
John Mark Kaczmarczyk, Endicott, NY (US);
Agnes Yee Ngai, Endwell, NY (US);
Edward Francis Westermann, Endicott, NY (US);
Robert J. Yagley, Endicott, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/32 ;
Abstract
Temporal compression of a digital video data stream with hierarchically searching in at least one search unit for pixels in a reference picture to find a best match for the current macroblock. This is followed by constructing a motion vector between the current macroblock and the best match macroblock in the reference picture.