ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,014, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Apparatus and method for efficient motion estimation" was invented by Mahesh M. Mehendale (Bangalore, India) and Ajit Deepak Gupte (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The architecture shown can perform global search, local search and local sub pixel search in a parallel or in a pipelined mode. All operations are in a streaming mode without the requirement of external intermediate data storage."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/379,249.
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