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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Levent Oktem, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
Abstract
A method and corresponding apparatus for selecting a sequence of quantization parameter values in a video encoder, the video encoder being arranged to encode a video frame as a sequence of n macroblocks and to assign a quantization parameter value for each macroblock of the video frame. The method includes steps ( ) in which quantization parameter values assigned to at least a subset of said sequence of n macroblocks are optimized in such a way as to minimize a cost associated with their encoding.