Subsampled frame storage technique for reduced memory size

Details Subsampled frame storage technique for reduced memory size Subsampled frame storage technique for reduced memory size

1994-11-30

1997-07-01

Au, Amelia

Television

Bandwidth reduction system

Data rate reduction

348424, H04N 736

Patent

active

056443617

ABSTRACT:
A video compression system in accordance with the present invention may use a frame buffer which is only a fraction of the size of a full frame buffer. A subsampler connected to an input of the frame buffer performs 4 to 1 subsampling on the video data to be stored in the frame buffer. This allows the frame buffer to be one-fourth the size of a full frame buffer. The subsampling may even be 9 to 1, 16 to 1, or another ratio, for a concomitant decrease in frame buffer size. An upsampler is connected to the output of the frame buffer for providing interpolated and filtered values between the subsamples. Novel methods of filtering and interpolating performed by the upsampler are described. A new motion estimation technique is also described herein which directly detects the number of bits required to be transmitted to convey the difference between the predicted video data and the current video data, where a fewer number of bits used to convey the difference corresponds to better motion estimation. The search criterion for the best estimate of movement of a block is the minimum number of bits for conveying this difference.

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