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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Gaurav Aggarwal, Bangalore, IN;
Rajendra Khare, Bangalore, IN;
Gaurav Aggarwal, Bangalore, IN;
Rajendra Khare, Bangalore, IN;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Presented herein are Tertiary Content Addressable Memory based motion estimator(s). In one embodiment, there is presented a method for encoding a picture. The method comprises storing a reference picture in a memory; taking samples from at least one line of a prediction block, wherein each of the samples comprises a plurality of bits, the plurality of bits comprising most significant bits and least significant bits; concatenating the samples; replacing the least significant bits of the samples with 'don't cares', thereby generating at least one data word; addressing the memory with the at least one data word; receiving one or more addresses, said one or more addresses associated with one or more blocks; replacing a portion of the 'don't cares' with a portion of the least significant bits of the samples, thereby generating another one or more data words; and addressing the memory with the another one or more data words.