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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2012
Applicants:
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Lowell L. Winger, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Lowell L. Winger, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for transcoding from an H.264 format to an MPEG-2 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the H.264 format to generate a picture having a plurality of macroblock pairs that used an H.264 macroblock adaptive field/frame coding; (B) determining a mode indicator for each of the macroblock pairs; and (C) coding the macroblock pairs into an output video stream in the MPEG-2 format using one of (i) an MPEG-2 field mode coding and (ii) an MPEG-2 frame mode coding as determined from the mode indicators.