Patent · US Expired

Insertion of supplementary information in digital data

US7499546B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 31, 2001
Grant dateMar 3, 2009
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/328
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns a method of inserting a suppementary information item in a set of data reprenting physical quantities, the data having been processed by the steps of, a) partitioning (E2) the set into subsets, b) entropic coding (E4) of each of the subsets, c) selecting (E8), for each of the subsets, a compression rate and distortion pair according to a global compression rate or a global distortion, d) writing, for each of the subsets, an index (Tij) representing the selected compression rate and distortion pair, in a file containing the coded subsets, characterised in that it also includes a step (E11) of modifying the selected compression rate and distortion pairs, according to the supplementary information (wm).

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