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  • Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video content
    Patent number: 6980596
    Abstract: A method and system of encoding and decoding digital video content. The digital video content comprises a stream of pictures which can each be intra, predicted, or bi-predicted pictures. Each of the pictures comprises macroblocks that can be further divided into smaller blocks. The method entails encoding and decoding each of the smaller blocks in each picture in said stream of pictures in either frame mode or in field mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Limin Wang, Rajeev Gandhi, Krit Panusopone, Ajay Luthra