Since the energy efficiency ratio (EER) of the air conditioning system is dependent on the efficiency of the motor in addition to the performance of the refrigerant system. the motor efficiency can be viewed as a source of EER improvement. The amount of motor efficiency improvement obtainable is in turn dependent on the motor material characteristics and the motor size or volume which is usuall...

In this paper, we propose an improved DC prediction method for high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) intra coding. The technique involves the application of pixel-wise predictors rather than block-based predictor in the DC mode. In HEVC, the pixels of neighboring reconstructed blocks are used to support multiple directional spatial prediction modes and reduce spatial redundancy. For lossless codi...

As logic systems get larger and more complex, their supply current requirements continue to rise. Systems requiring 100A are fairly common. A high current power supply to meet such requirements usually requires paralleling several power regulators to alleviate the thermal stress on the individual power components. A power supply designer is left with the choice of how to drive these paralleled ...

Using Focus of Attention (FoA) as a perceptual process in image and video compression belongs to well-known approaches to increase coding efficiency. It has been shown that foveated coding, when compression quality varies across the image according to region of interest, is more efficient than the alternative coding, when all region are compressed in a similar way. However, widespread use of su...

HEVC HM 16 includes a Coding Unit (CU) level perceptual quantization technique named AdaptiveQP. AdaptiveQP adjusts the Quantization Parameter (QP) at the CU level based on the spatial activity of samples in the four constituent N×N sub-blocks of the luma Coding Block (CB), which is contained within a 2N×2N CU. In this paper, we propose C-BAQ, which, in contrast to AdaptiveQP, adjusts the CU le...

Traditional intra prediction usually utilizes the nearest reference line to generate the predicted block when considering strong spatial correlation. However, this kind of single line-based method does not always work well due to at least two issues. One is the incoherence caused by the signal noise or the texture of other object, where this texture deviates from the inherent texture of the cur...