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Video signal recording apparatus, video signal regenerating apparatus, image coding apparatus and image decoding apparatus

US6201898A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 26, 1999
Grant dateMar 13, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 26, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/888
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

To a conventional video signal recording apparatus, there are added additional information generating means and data replacement means for replacing data at a specified position in compressed data with additional information generated by the additional information generating means. This enables to provide a video signal recording apparatus and a video signal regenerating apparatus which are able to increase transmissible information content; an image coding apparatus that executes high-efficiency non-linear quantization at a small circuit containing no quantization table and also prevents error propagation; and an image decoding apparatus for regenerating coded data obtained in the image coding apparatus.

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