Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toyohiko Matsuda

Masaaki Kobayashi

Masakazu Nishino

Yoshitomi Nagaoka

Yuji Fujiwara

Masafumi Shimotashiro

Seiichi Takeuchi

Shigeru Awamoto

Kazuhiro Wake

Akifumi Ide

Sigeru Awamoto

Shouichi Nishino

The present invention includes a motion vector detector for detecting motion vectors using a first image signal of high resolution; a resolution reducer for creating a second image signal of low resolution from the first image signal; an image signal interpolater for interpolating the second image signal so that it has the same number of pixels as the first image signal, thereby creating an interpolated signal; a differentiator for determining a differential between the first image signal and the interpolated signal; and an encoder for using the motion vectors to high-efficiency-encode the differential signal. Thus, by encoding two types of image signals of different resolutions, the present invention improves the accuracy of the motion vectors during the encoding of the high-resolution signal and reduces the rate after encoding due to the encoding of the differential signal.

Method and apparatus for transmitting, encoding and decoding video signal and recording/reproducing method of optical disc

In shuffling used as an efficient coding method for an input digital video signal, input digital television signals of different standards are judged in an input judging circuit, the judged information is sent out into a memory write control circuit and a memory read control circuit. The memory write control circuit determines the offset value of the vertical address according to the judgement signal, and writes the input signal at a position corresponding to the screen of the determined shuffling region of the shuffling range corresponding to each signal in the shuffling memory, or writes the block out of the shuffling range into the shuffling memory according to the specified control method in the vacant region of the shuffling range. The memory read control circuit changes over the offset value of the vertical address to be read out from the memory and the address control according to the judgement information.

Video signal processing method and apparatus for use with plural

According to orthogonal transformation coefficients obtained through orthogonal transformation, the degree of influence on visual sensation is detected. Depending on the degree of influence on visual sensation, a quantization step size is controlled so as to assign a greater amount of codes to each block of which image quality deterioration is conspicuous and a smaller amount of codes to each block of which image quality deterioration is less conspicuous.

Orthogonal transform encoder using DC component to control quantization

By transforming a duobinary signal, a value of -1 cannot appear again after a value of zero following -1 as shown in a string of -1.fwdarw.0.fwdarw.-1 and a value of 1 cannot appear again after a value of zero following 1 as shown in a string of 1.fwdarw.0.fwdarw.1. Narrow-band transmission is made possible by the fact that the direct current (DC) component of a duobinary signal can be eliminated and reproducible original information can be recorded by discriminating its even level as a one (1) and its odd level as zero (0). Since the DC component can be eliminated, electromagnetic conversion systems are subjected to less distortion, leading to a reduction in the probability of coding errors.

Coding apparatus for converting digital signals into ternary signals

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Katano, Japan

Toyohiko Matsuda