Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kye J Kim

Tae Young Chung

An image signal coding system encodes analog image signals into digital signals in a high-definition digital video tape recorder (D-VTR). A scrambling portion rearranges the image data of a frame formated in the order of vertical subsampling line into a predetermined unit of blocks to distribute the highly variable portions and substantially linear portions in the image data uniformly, while an activity calculation portion calculates a horizontal projection sum and a vertical projection sum of discrete coding transform factors in a unit block and a block activity, respectively to determine a coding area and a quantization step size. An adaptive scanning portion adaptively scans the quantized data in accordance with the coding area determined by the activity calculation portion and a sequential transmission portion sequentially transmits the data coded by a variable length coding in conforming with a predetermined transmitting bit rate in a unit of a fixed length, wherein a block having an underflow producted therein is added with 0 and transferred, while a block having an overflow produced therein is transmitted with only an amount of data coincided with the transfer bit rate.

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Kyounggi-do, South Korea

Kye J Kim