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Combined spline and block based motion estimation for coding a sequence of video images

US6295377A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 13, 1998
Grant dateSep 25, 2001
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Expiry dateJul 13, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/10016
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an coder for producing a bitstream representative of a sequence of video images, a previous image is registered with a current image using spline-based registration to produce estimated motion vectors. The estimated motion vectors are used to match blocks of the previous image and the current image to produce translation vectors. The translation vectors compensate for motion while encoding the sequence as a bitstream.

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