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Moving picture decoding apparatus and method

US6459736B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 9, 1998
Grant dateOct 1, 2002
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Expiry dateJun 9, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/6332
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A moving picture decoding apparatus includes an input part which adds at least one picture tag to a bit stream, having a plurality of pictures, which has been subjected to intraframe or interframe encoding, the picture tag or tags having a value monotonously changing on a picture-by-picture basis, independent of picture content, a buffer memory storing the bit stream and a controller controlling one or more of the plurality of pictures stored in the buffer memory by referring to the corresponding picture tag or tags.

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