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Compression and coding device for video signals

US4907081A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 22, 1988
Grant dateMar 6, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 22, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/90
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A coding device in which N digital signals (time-sequential sampled data), obtained by sampling and quantizing analog video signals, are brought together in one group (N being an integer greater than two) and coded. Among these N sampled data, at least one of them serving as a reference is coded with a number of quantization bits n, which is so great that errors due to the quantization can be neglected, and for the other sampled data the difference between the reference sampled data and each of the others is compressed and coded with a number of bits, which is smaller than n. In this way, even if a coding error is produced; effects thereof are restricted within the gorup where it is produced they are not exerted on the other groups, and thus error propagation does not occur.

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