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Adaptive quantization controller

US5999218A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 1997
Grant dateDec 7, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/15
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An adder 101 computes the difference between the activity (act) of an objective block and the average value (avg(act)) of activities all over the previous frame. A shifter 102 shifts the difference by a specified bits (n). Finally, an adder 103 adds output of the shifter 102 to a reference quantizing step (Qj) determined by a code quantity control and outputs the added result as a quantizing step Mquant of the objective block.

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