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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Wei Jia, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 19/503 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/00575 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for encoding a video signal having a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of blocks and an original resolution. The method includes identifying a first frame from the plurality of frames that is predicted using inter prediction, determining a first variance for the first frame using a processor. selecting a first frame resolution from one of: (a) the original resolution or (b) a resolution lower than the original resolution for the first frame based on the first variance, and encoding the first frame using the selected first frame resolution.