Apparatus and method for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image

• US 20060083307A1
• Filed: 02/22/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Chi, Fu-Chung
• Application Number:
  US11/062,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20060083307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.160
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/43 Hardware specially adapted for motion estimation or compensation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/51 Motion estimation or motion compensation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/145 Movement estimation for video coding H04N19/51

Abstract

An apparatus and method for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image is used for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image in MPEG4 and DivX format. The apparatus comprises a shifter for logically shifting the motion vector of an image to the right by three bits, a block offset address table for providing the offset address, a motion vector amended look-up table for providing the difference between the value by shifting logically the motion vector of an image to the right by three bits and a verification model and an adder for adding the value by shifting the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and the block offset address of the image. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image simplifies the circuit and gets a correct result.

Claims

1. An apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image, comprising:

a shifter, logically shifting the motion vector of an image to the right by three bits;

a motion vector amended look-up table, providing the difference between the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and a verification model;

a block offset address table, connected to the motion vector amended look-up table, providing the offset address of a calculated picture related to an original point of the image; and

an adder, connected to the shifter and the block offset address table, for adding the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and an offset address to get the reference address of motion compensation of an image.

2. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 1, wherein the shifter comprises three bit shifters.

3. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 1, wherein the bit 0 of the block offset address table is set according to the value of the motion vector amended look-up table.

4. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 1, wherein the motion vector amended look-up table uses the bit 0 to bit 3 of motion vector as a unit, every sixteen values compose a repeat cycle. The third, forth, fifth, sixth, seventh, fourteenth and fifteenth value of the verification model are different from the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits. The difference is 1. The others are the same.

5. An apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image, comprising:

a shifter, logically shifting the motion vector of an image to the right by three bits;

a motion vector amended look-up table, providing the difference between the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and the verification model; and

an adder, connected to the shifter and the motion vector amended look-up table, for adding the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and the value of the motion vector amended look-up table to get the motion vector of an image.

6. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 5, wherein the shifter comprises three bit shifters.

7. The apparatus for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 5, wherein the motion vector amended look-up table uses the bit 0 to bit 3 of motion vector as a unit, every sixteen values compose a repeat cycle. The third, forth, fifth, sixth, seventh, fourteenth and fifteenth value of the verification model are different from the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits. The difference is 1. The others are the same.

8. A method for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image, comprising:

shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits;

building up a motion vector amended look-up table, the motion vector amended look-up table comes from calculating the difference between the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits and the verification model;

building up a block offset address table, the block offset address is predetermined, the block offset address means an offset address from the calculated block of the image to an original point of image;

setting the bit 0 of the block offset address table, the value of bit 0 of the block offset address table is determined by the value of the motion vector amended look-up table; and

adding the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits with the offset address of an image to get the reference address of motion compensation of the image.

9. The method for calculating the reference address of motion compensation of an image of claim 8, wherein the step of building up a motion vector amended look-up table further comprises:

calculating the value of the verification model of the image, to calculate the value of the verification model of the image according to the spec of the imagine;

calculating the value of shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits; and

comparing the above values, the result is that the motion vector amended look-up table uses the bit 0 to bit 3 of motion vector as a unit, every sixteen values composes a repeat cycle. The third, forth, fifth, sixth, seventh, fourteenth and fifteenth value of the verification model are different from the value by shifting logically the motion vector of the image to the right by three bits. The difference is 1. The others are the same.