Patent ID: 7782938

Claim:
A video processing method comprising the steps of: receiving encoded video data representing a series of images, said encoded video data having been encoded using motion compensated prediction on at least some of the images being encoded, each encoded image in said series of images including a first predetermined contiguous image area and a second predetermined contiguous image area, each of said first and second predetermined contiguous image areas being smaller than a full area of an image in said series of images, motion vectors for the first predetermined contiguous image areas using for predictions only pixels within first predetermined contiguous image areas, an individual motion vector for the first predetermined image area of an encoded image referencing a portion of the first predetermined image area of one of said series of images, each of said first predetermined contiguous image areas being located at the same location in each of said series of images, said same location having been determined prior to encoding; and decoding said received encoded video data including said motion vectors.