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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2006
John William Richardson, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Richard Edwin Goedeken, Somerset, NJ (US);
Jens Cahnbley, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
John William Richardson, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Richard Edwin Goedeken, Somerset, NJ (US);
Jens Cahnbley, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
THOMSON LICENSING, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
There are provided apparatus and methods for parallelizing an encoding process across multiple processors. An apparatus includes a computing resource balancer and a splitter. The computing resource balancer is for assigning encoder instances to respective ones of the multiple processors based on at least one of thread affinity and process affinity. The splitter is for temporally dividing an incoming video sequence into discrete GOPs such that each of the encoder instances is capable of encoding the incoming video sequence in parallel so that each of the discrete GOPs is encoded on a respective one of the multiple processors.