Half-pixel interpolation for a motion compensated digital video system
CA 2113045 C · Owner: General Instrument Corporation · Inventors: Fox, John; Liu, Vincent
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A scheme is provided for processing previous frame data in a motion compensated digital video system to interpolate pixels used in reconstructing a current video frame. Pixel data from a previous video frame is arranged into sub-blocks containing a plurality N of pixels. The sub-blocks are stored in a memory to enable the retrieval of at least one sub-block per memory access cycle. A plurality M of sub-blocks are retrieved from the memory in response to a displacement vector associated with a portion of a current video frame. M is less than or equal to N and the M sub-blocks are retrieved in no more than M memory access cycles. A subset of pixels is chosen from the selected plurality of …
Read the whole patent
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
- Filed January 7, 1994 and granted August 10, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 7, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 7, 2016.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.