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Variable transfer rate control coding apparatus, reproducing apparatus and recording medium

US5790745A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 11, 1996
Grant dateAug 4, 1998
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/152
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A variable transfer rate control coding apparatus which can distribute codes of an amount most suitable to the contents of a moving picture to be recorded and to a recording medium, on which information is recorded by this transfer rate coding apparatus, by obtaining an amount of codes to be temporarily generated in each unit period of time by a temporary or tentative coding, and then storing a temporary transfer rate (namely, a value of the temporary amount of codes to be generated in each unit period of time), and setting a target transfer rate (namely, a target value of an amount) of codes to be sent in each unit period of time from a total of the temporary transfer rates and the recordable capacity of the recording medium and next performing an actual or real coding according to the target transfer rates.

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