Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-14
2005-06-14
Vo, Tung (Department: 2613)
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
active
06907073
ABSTRACT:
A scaleable video encoder has one or more encoding modes in which at least some, and possibly all, of the motion information used during motion-based predictive encoding of a video stream is excluded from the resulting encoded video bitstream, where a corresponding video decoder is capable of performing its own motion computation to generate its own version of the motion information used to perform motion-based predictive decoding in order to decode the bitstream to generate a decoded video stream. All motion computation, whether at the encoder or the decoder, is preferably performed on decoded data. For example, frames may be encoded as either H, L, or B frames, where H frames are intra-coded at full resolution and L frames are intra-coded at low resolution. The motion information is generated by applying motion computation to decoded L and H frames and used to generate synthesized L frames. L-frame residual errors are generated by performing inter-frame differencing between the synthesized and original L frames and are encoded into the bitstream. In addition, synthesized B frames are generated by tweening between the decoded H and L frames and B-frame residual errors are generated by performing inter-frame differencing between the synthesized B frames and, depending on the implementation, either the original B frames or sub-sampled B frames. These B-frame residual errors are also encoded into the bitstream. The ability of the decoder to perform motion computation enables motion-based predictive encoding to be used to generate an encoded bitstream without having to expend bits for explicitly encoding any motion information.
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Burt Peter
Hanna Keith
Kumar Rakesh
Sawhney Harpreet Singh
Winarsky Norman
Burke William J.
Sarnoff Corporation
Vo Tung
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