Motion estimator
CA 1318970 C · Owner: Parke, Ian · Inventors: Parke, Ian
Overview
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A motion vector suitable for motion-compensated prediction in an inter-frame differential video coder is derived by comparison of each block of a current frame with the corresponding region of a previous frame and with shifted regions of the previous frame. Rather than dealing with each block in turn, the apparatus carries out all comparisons involving a line n of the video signal before commencing comparisons involving n+p (where p is the number of lines encompassed by a block).
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted June 8, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 8, 2010.
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