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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2007
Applicant:
Naoki Kuzuya, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Naoki Kuzuya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A motion-vector searching method is provided. The motion-vector searching method includes the steps of: reading out observed processing blocks and reading out reference processing blocks; concurrently computing partial evaluation values for each of a plurality of position vectors; obtaining a total evaluation value for each particular one of the position vectors; and finding the motion vector as an optimum position vector determined by comparison of the total evaluation values each obtained for one of the position vectors with each other.