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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2012
Larry Pearlstein, Newtown, PA (US);
Min Wang, Scarborough, CA;
Marinko Karanovic, Markham, CA;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An image processing engine, comprising: a frame rate conversion entity configured to: (a) generate output pictures from input pictures, the output pictures comprising a set of first output pictures and a plurality of sets of second output pictures, each set of second output pictures being associated with one of the first output pictures, each of the first output pictures being derived from a respective one of the input pictures; and (b) control generation of the set of second output pictures associated with a particular first output picture based upon repetitive pattern presence detection within a related picture that is either (i) the particular first output picture or (ii) the input picture from which the particular first output picture was derived.