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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
Soo-chul Han, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Christine Podilchuk, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Soo-Chul Han, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Christine Podilchuk, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray HIll, NJ (US);
Abstract
An encoding method for reducing motion video data sizes using a multitude of variable-sized data blocks that are derived from spatial translation vectors and the motion field of an image. Using variable-block sizes to characterize the groups of picture elements (pixels) in an image frame allows for the inter-mixing of coarse (for static areas) and fine (for areas of complex motion) resolution data descriptions in the same descriptive data block. A comparison of motion event areas is made between successive video frames, and a motion displacement vector is calculated for each pixel location in the frame. A data tree is constructed from these pixel motion vectors and is pruned to eliminate static areas. The remaining leaves of the pruned tree are encoded differentially and applied to a lossless arithmetic encoder to provide a significantly reduced data block that still retains the highest resolution of the image.