Application acceleration

Abstract

A system including an acceleration device including input circuitry configured, for each of a first plurality of video frames to be encoded, to receive an input including at least one raw video frame and at least one reference frame, and to divide each of the first plurality of video frames to be encoded into a second plurality of blocks, and similarity computation circuitry configured, for each one of the first plurality of video frame to be encoded: for each block of the second plurality of blocks, to produce a score of result blocks based on similarity of each block in each frame to be encoded to every block of the reference frame, an AC energy coefficient, and a displacement vector. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.

Description

PRIORITY CLAIM[0001]The present application is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16 / 291,023, of Levi et al, filed 4 Mar. 2019; and claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application 62 / 695,063 of Levi et al, filed 8 Jul. 2018, and to US Provisional Patent Application 62 / 726,446 of Levi et al, filed 4 Sep. 2018.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to the fields of computer architecture and application acceleration.BACKGROUND[0003]Video encoding is described herein as one example of a workload which creates heavy stresses (by way of non-limiting example, in the cloud and / or in the data center; the same applies in other equipment and / or locations that are part of the video flow). With respect to the particular non-limiting example of preparing video for an edge computing device (by way of non-limiting example, for a smart phone, a TV set etc.), data center workload includes millions of video streams which have to be encoded and ...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The present invention aims to provide a solution for video encoding in data centers and clouds. The technical effects of the invention include the ability to accelerate video encoding, video compression, motion estimation, Current Picture Referencing (CPR), and computer architecture. The invention addresses the challenges of processing multiple video streams simultaneously in the data center and the increasing amount of information / data in video streams. The invention also addresses the difficulty of creating a universal acceleration device for video encoding in the data center due to the diverse video standards and the tuning of video encoding to competitive advantage. The invention provides an improved video encoding system that overcomes these challenges and limitations.

Problems solved by technology

The load of a single encoding task itself is generally too big for a single CPU.

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