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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 19/51 (2014.01); H04N 19/533 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/00696 (2013.01); H04N 19/00606 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques to perform fast motion estimation are described. An apparatus may comprise a motion estimator operative to receive as input a current frame and a reference frame from a digital video sequence. The motion estimator may generate and output a motion vector. The motion vector may represent a change in position between a current block of the current frame and a matching reference block of the reference frame. The motion estimator may utilize an enhanced block matching technique to perform block matching based on stationary and spatially proximate blocks. Other embodiments are described and claimed.