Patent ID: 6907076

Claim:
A method of video processing N encoded video input signals for decoding and reducing the format of each encoded video input signal by a factor N and generating a set of decoded video signals of a reduced format in the pixel domain, each encoded video input signal comprising DCT blocks having a size of 8*8, referred to as “DCT input blocks”, characterized in that said video processing method comprises the steps of: extracting N blocks having a reduced size (8/N*8/N), each block having a reduced size being extracted from a DCT input block, a first inverse DCT transform applied successively to input vectors having a size of 8, each input vector being replaced by coefficients of rows (or columns) constituting the N blocks having a reduced size, each inverse DCT transform step generating an output vector having a size of 8 defining the rows (or the columns) of the N intermediate blocks having a reduced size, said first inverse DCT transform step being repeated for all the rows (or the columns) of the N reduced-size blocks, a second inverse DCT transform applied successively to input vectors having a size of 8, each input vector being replaced by coefficients of columns (or rows) constituting the N intermediate blocks, each inverse DCT transform step generating an output vector having a size of 8 defining, via a recursive computing step applied to the values of said output vector, the columns (or the rows) of N output blocks having a reduced size, said second inverse DCT transform step being repeated for all the columns (or the rows) of the N intermediate blocks, each of said N reduced-size output blocks defining one of said decoded video signals having a format reduced by a factor N.