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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2003
Applicants:
Lowell L. Winger, Waterloo, CA;
Pavel Novotny, Waterloo, CA;
Guy Cote, Elora, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 11/04 (2006.01); H04B 1/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for improving rate distortion performance of a compression system through parallel coefficient cancellation in a transform comprising the steps of (A) determining a block sum of absolute values for each of a plurality of blocks in a macroblock and (B) setting one or more coefficient values of a block to zero in response to a block sum value of said block being less than a first predetermined threshold value.