摘要 |
A video processor comprises an instruction set of programmed operations for operating on video data. The instruction set has an instruction which corresponds to a programmed operation for performing a motion estimation calculation between pixel data in frames of video data. The programmed operation causes the processor to calculate a measure of motion estimation at each of a plurality of search locations within a search window. The processor comprises a plurality of calculation units (6), each of the units (6) being operable to perform a calculation, or partial calculation, at a different search location. The plurality of calculation units (6) perform the calculations, or partial calculations, in parallel. The measure of motion estimation calculation is one of: a sum of absolute difference (SAD) calculation; a mean square error (MSE) calculation, a mean absolute error (MAE) calculation. |