Patent Document ID: 20040161157
Application ID: 10725061
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for compensating for motion prediction on each of a plurality of motion compensating blocks formed by dividing an objective frame image of successive frame images by using a plurality of reference frame images while sequentially changing pixel-based sizes of the plurality of motion compensating blocks, the method comprising steps of: a hierarchizing step of thinning out pixels of a motion compensating block having a greatest pixel-based size to be taken as an uppermost layer of among blocks with smaller pixel-based sizes, to generate a size-reduced block in a lower layer having a predetermined size-reduction ratio; a search range determining step of determining motion vector search ranges respectively within the plurality of reference frame images, on the basis of the size-reduced block and other size-reduced blocks, and a plurality of size-reduced reference images reduced in size corresponding to the size-reduction ratios of the sized-reduced block and other size-reduced blocks respectively; and a detecting step of detecting an optimal motion vector while sequentially changing the pixel-based sizes of the plurality of motion compensating blocks by using each of the motion vector search ranges determined in the search range determining step.