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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Zhourong Miao, San Jose, CA (US);
James J. Carrig, San Jose, CA (US);
Marco Paniconi, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zhourong Miao, San Jose, CA (US);
James J. Carrig, San Jose, CA (US);
Marco Paniconi, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of generating a spatial prediction of a target block of pixels in a target image includes generating a spatial vector for a target block of pixels, using the spatial vector to construct a spatial reference block, and using the spatial reference block to generate the spatial prediction of the target block.