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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2014
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Seong-Mo Park, Daejeon, KR;
Seung-Hyun Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Hyun-Mi Kim, Incheon, KR;
Kyung-Jin Byun, Daejeon, KR;
Nak-Woong Eum, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for skipping fractional motion estimation (FME) in high efficiency video coding (HEVC) are disclosed. The apparatus includes a current sum of absolute differences (SAD) acquisition unit, a redundancy determination unit, and a motion estimation skip unit. The SAD acquisition unit acquires the SAD from an integer motion estimation (IME) unit when the IME unit performs IME on a coding tree block (CTB). The redundancy determination unit determines whether or not the CTB is an estimated redundant block using the current SAD. The motion estimation skip unit provides an FME unit with an FME skip signal of the CTB depending on whether or the CTB is an estimated redundant block.