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Method for effectuating half-pixel motion compensation in decoding an image signal

US5532747A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 19, 1994
Grant dateJul 2, 1996
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Expiry dateSep 19, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/523
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for decoding an encoded image signal supplied in the form of a series of encoded image frames, each of the encoded image frames being divided into a multiplicity of macroblocks of pixels, each of the macroblocks having an associated half-pixel resolution motion vector which represents a translatory motion of the macroblock between a present and its preceding frames of the encoded image signal to a half-pixel accuracy, comprises: providing differential pixels of a differential macroblock in a first predetermined scanning order by performing entropy decoding, inverse quantization and inverse transformation on the pixels in each macroblock of the present frame; scanning the differential pixels so as to provide scan converted differential pixels of a scan converted differential macroblock in a second predetermined scanning order; providing half-pixel resolution pixels of a half-pixel resolution macroblock in the second predetermined scanning order by accessing, under a control of the half-pixel resolution motion vector, the pixels in the previous frame in an order corresponding to the second predetermined scanning order and, depending on the half-pixel resolution motion vector…

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