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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Applicants:
Siu-leong Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Christos Chrysafis, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Siu-Leong Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Christos Chrysafis, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
ESS Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To encode an unencoded block of a frame, a search window is defined within the frame. Each pixel disposed within the search window and disposed in the unencoded portion of the frame that is assigned a value. A difference is computed between the unencoded block and each possible block within the search window. The block having the smallest difference, together with this difference are used to encode the unencoded block.