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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:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ying Cui, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chips and Technologies, LLC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 ; G06K 9/46 ; H04N 1/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 ; G06K 9/46 ; H04N 1/104 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing video data. The apparatus is composed of a plurality of reducers. A block is received, corresponding to a plurality of color space components and having a width defined by a plurality of pixels digitally represented by bytes. The video data is first reduced by performing power of two reduction. This is followed by fine scale reduction to achieve the final reduced image.