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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2009
Anthony D. Masterson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Dzung Tien Hoang, Austin, TX (US);
Anthony D. Masterson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Dzung Tien Hoang, Austin, TX (US);
Zenverge, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system (and a method) for compressing reference frames in a video transcoder. A transcoder receives a compressed input stream in a first compressed format and output a compressed output stream in a second compressed format. A decoder and an encoder in the transcoder use compressed reference frames. The reference frames are compressed by transforming a block of pixels from a spatial domain to a frequency domain to generate a coefficient array. The coefficient array is quantized and encoded to compress the size of the coefficients array to the size of a fixed bucket. The values of the entropy coded and quantized array are stored in a memory for use in decoding and/or encoding.