A flexible VLSI architecture for full-search block-matching motion-vector estimation

A description is given of a flexible VLSI architecture for the motion-vector estimation which is required in the motion compensation technique. The architecture realizes the full-search block-matching algorithm which gives very accurate motion-vector information. On the basis of this architecture, a chip can be designed for different block sizes (8*8, 16*16, 32*32, etc.). Also, the same chips can be cascaded for larger tracking ranges.<
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