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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Kazuteru Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Ozawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuteru Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Ozawa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed are a moving-picture compression encoding apparatus comprising a motion-compensated predicting unit that includes a first cost calculator for generating cost values based upon difference information indicative of differences between prediction signals generated by a prediction signal generator and a moving-picture signal input to the moving-picture compression encoding apparatus; a preliminary selector for preliminarily selecting a plurality of blocks based upon the cost values and outputting the blocks to a second cost calculator; the second cost calculator for generating new cost values by applying a frequency conversion to the difference information regarding the block sizes that have been output from the preliminary selector; and a block size selector for selecting an optimum block size based upon the cost values resulting from the frequency conversion.