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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2001
Tao Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Redrock Semiconductor, Ltd., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Errors are detected in a motion-picture-experts group (MPEG) bitstream that has been corrupted by wireless transmission. Some 16×16 pixel macroblocks are divided into four smaller 8×8 blocks. A motion vector is encoded for each block. The Euclid distance is generated for each possible pair of the four motion vectors, and the maximum of these distances is compared to a threshold distance. When the maximum distance among the motion vectors in a macroblock exceeds the threshold, a bitstream error is signaled and error concealment is triggered. Since the four blocks within a macroblock usually stay close to each other in adjacent video frames, large jumps in the relative location of one block usually indicate a bitstream error. Squares of the distances can be generated and compared to reduce the computational load by eliminating square-root operations.