Motion video compression system with multiresolution features
US5414469A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 31, 1991 |
| Grant date | May 9, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 31, 2011 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N19/63
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for processing a stream of video image data so as to create a video representation that multiplexes data corresponding to resolution or bitstream scales. This representation is such that the identity of the basic MacroBlock (MB) structure of the MPEG-1 ISO standard is preserved across all resolution and bitstream scales, e.g. by scaling across four levels of resolution. A MacroBlock is associated with a series of attributes which contribute to the amount of overhead data incorporated in an MPEG-1 compressed data stream, so that by preserving the MacroBlock identify across multiple resolutions and bitstream scales, these scales can share this overhead, thus requiring it to be included only once in the data stream. Preserving the MacroBlock identify also simplifies significantly the derivation of motion estimation vector data for all resolution scales other than the highest resolution. Essentially, the motion vector data corresponding to any resolution scales can be derived from the highest resolution motion vector by appropriately scaling it down. Alternatively, the full resolution motion vectors can be derived by appropriate scale up of lower resolution motion v…
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