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Method of chroma-keying for a digital video compression system

US6084982A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 17, 1997
Grant dateJul 4, 2000
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/20
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of performing chroma-key coding including the steps of defining color regions and quantifying the number of pixels in the regions, classifying macroblocks in accordance with the number of pixels thus quantified, assigning chroma complexity weights for use in the computation of quantization step-size based on the classification of the macroblocks, computing the quantization step-size, performing quantization and performing variable length coding.

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