Spatial/frequency hybrid video coding facilitating the derivatives of variable-resolution images
US5253056A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 2, 1992 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 2, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N19/63
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An adaptive technique for video encoding and decoding which facilitates the transmission, reception, storage, or retrieval of a scalable video signal. The technique allows this scaling to be performed in both the spatial and frequency domains. In a specific embodiment, video encoding is adaptively performed based upon a selection from among a multiplicity of compatible spatial-domain predictions from previously decoded images, and a selection of compatible predictions obtained from up-sampling decoded lower resolution images. The decoded lower resolution images correspond to a current temporal reference, and at least one of these lower resolution images is encoded in more than one frequency domain scales. In yet another embodiment, one lower resolution signal is encoded (without reference to any other low resolution signal) by employing the MPEG-1 standard, with a modified partitioning of the resultant bitstream into two or more frequency scale bitstreams. The decoded images from these bitstreams are employed in the spatial prediction of a higher resolution layers.
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