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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
GEO SEMICONDUCTOR INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/196 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/126 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/198 (2014.11); H04N 19/126 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/196 (2014.11);
Abstract
A method for encoding a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating at least one respective macroblock statistic from each of a plurality of macroblocks in the picture, (B) generating at least one global statistic from the picture and (C) generating a respective macroblock quantization parameter for each of the macroblocks based on both (i) the at least one respective macroblock statistic and (ii) said at least one global statistic.