Method and apparatus for estimating motion using block features obtained from an M-ary pyramid
US6430317B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 19, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 6, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 19, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N19/53
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method for reducing memory resource requirements in, e.g., an image processing system by utilizing a packed data pixel representation and, optionally, M-ary pyramid decomposition, for pixel block or pixel group searching and matching operations.
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