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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2014
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Orchard, Princeton, NJ (US);
Hamid Jafarkhani, Middletown, NJ (US);
Amy Reibman, Matawan, NJ (US);
Yao Wang, Matawan, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
An encoder includes a controller to determine whether macroblocks of a frame of video content are to be processed by intra-frame encoding or by predictive coding. The encoder includes a switch coupled to the controller. The encoder includes an intra-frame unit to receive the macroblocks via the switch when the controller determines to process the macroblocks by intra-frame encoding. The encoder includes a predictive unit to receive the macroblocks via the switch when the controller determines to process the macroblocks by predictive encoding. The encoder also includes a redundancy allocation unit coupled to the controller. The controller determines whether to process the macroblocks by intra-frame encoding or predictive frame encoding based on information received from the redundancy allocation unit.