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Error control apparatus for a digital video signal processing system

US5268961A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 1992
Grant dateDec 7, 1993
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2012

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/91
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a system for coding and decoding a digital television signal, a signal representing residual image information is transformed into plural subband signals representing vertical and horizontal frequencies, and quantized. To mitigate the effects of transmission channel errors, the quantized subband signals are scrambled by line shuffling before being data compressed prior to transmission. Inverse operations including decoding, line re-shuffling, dequantization and subband synthesis occur at a receiver.

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