Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Koichi Omura

Hiroyoshi Yuasa

Akira Yasuda

A picture transmission system of the present invention is adapted to code picture data by a variable sampling rate coding system to transmit the same. Picture data are stored in a frame memory (16) of a transmission area so that differential values between the same and predictors from a predictive circuit (43) are obtained by a subtracter (41) and compression-coded by a variable sampling rate compression circuit (42) to be transmitted. The compression-coded differential values are expansion-decoded by a variable sampling rate expansion circuit (40) so that original differential values are supplied to an adder (45). The adder (45) adds up the differential values with predictors, to produce predictors for subsequent sampling points. In a receiving area, transmitted codes are expansion-decoded by a variable sampling rate expansion circuit (51), so that the decoded values are added up with predictors from a predictive circuit (53) by an adder (52) to output the original picture data. Preposition prediction and variable sampling rate decoding are thus combined to enable, in the receiving area, automatic correction of compression/expansion errors caused in the transmission area.

Picture transmission system using secondary differential variable

A visual image sensor system for detecting an abnormal change in a monitored scene is disclosed, wherein normal changes which may occur in the monitored scene are previously memorized to be selectively compared with changes in the monitored scene, whereby the normal changes are discriminated from the actual abnormal change to be detected. An alarm is issued when the monitored scene includes a change different from any of the memorized normal changes selected according to one or more rational selection standards, whereby false or redundant alarms due to the normal changes are prevented. For further precise detection, abnormal changes which may occur in the monitored scene are also previously memorized to be compared with the changes in the monitored scene.

Visual Image sensor system

Speech recognition by first log-compressing the speech signal, then filtering into subband signals which are subtracted to form an indicator of voiced, unvoiced and silence intervals, whereby sequence and duration patterns are coded in +1, -1, and zero.

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Osaka, Japan

Koichi Omura