US Patent Issued on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for low resolution motion estimation searches" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,776, issued on Jan. 28.

"Systems and methods for low resolution motion estimation searches" was invented by Jim C Chou (San Jose, Calif.), Mark P Rygh (Union City, Calif.) and Jae Young Park (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding system encodes source image data corresponding with an image includes a low resolution pipeline that receives the source image data corresponding with a first coding block in the image. The low resolution pipeline includes a low resolution motion estimation block programmed to generate a first downscaled coding block by downscaling resolution of the source image data correspondi...