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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2013
Applicant:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Inventors:
Krit Panusopone, San Diego, CA (US);
Limin Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Yinqing Zhao, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/00 (2014.01); H04N 19/51 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/533 (2014.01); H04N 19/57 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/51 (2014.11); H04N 19/533 (2014.11); H04N 19/57 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11);
Abstract
Scalable motion estimation is provided for macroblocks of a picture with the macroblocks being subdividable into partitions of different shapes and sizes. One embodiment of a method for performing motion estimation includes setting a target complexity for a macroblock of a source frame and performing motion estimation for one or more partitions of the macroblock until the target complexity is met. The macroblock partitions can be rectangular, square or a combination of rectangular and square.