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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2006
Method and apparatus for frame, field and macroblock adaptive progressive/interlace coding selection
Applicants:
José R. Alvarez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Simon Butler, San Rafael, CA (US);
Inventors:
José R. Alvarez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Simon Butler, San Rafael, CA (US);
Assignee:
GEO Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus includes a first preprocessor circuit and a second preprocessor circuit. The first preprocessor circuit may be configured to generate a first control signal for each of a plurality of macroblocks of an input image based upon a plurality of statistics for each of the plurality of macroblocks. The second preprocessor circuit may be configured to generate a second control signal based upon a combination of the first control signals of a number of macroblocks of the plurality of macroblocks.