Moving picture decoding apparatus and method
US6459736B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 9, 1998 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 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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