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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Xinghai LI, North York, CA;
Xin Guo, Toronto, CA;
Xinghai Li, North York, CA;
Xin Guo, Toronto, CA;
VIXS SYSTEMS INC., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
Reference pictures received via a video signal are downscaled to a specified resolution by a video encoder/decoder. For each current picture being processed by the video encoder/decoder, the current picture is maintained at its original received resolution, but is divided into blocks. Each block is further divided into sub-blocks, and each sub-block is compared, for a set of specified positions, to a corresponding block of the downscaled reference image to generate a set of candidate motion vectors. The candidate motion vectors are scored according to how closely their corresponding sub-block matches the corresponding block of the reference picture at the corresponding position, and a motion vector for each block of the current image is selected based on the scores. The selected motion vectors are used to process (e.g. encode) the video signal.