Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuichi Michikawa

Toyota Honda

Masayoshi Kuroda

Shinya Imanishi

Hitoshi Katayama

Koichi Takamoto

Yoshizumi Eto

Masuo Umemoto

Hidehiro Kanada

Shinichi Miyazaki

Nobukazu Doi

Seiichi Mita

Morishi Izumita

Morito Rokuda

Hitoshi Takagi

Hiroshi Shiono

Image data compression method and apparatus which improves image quality in a scene where image greatly changes and reduces the image data, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and apparatus. The image data compression apparatus which compresses input image data and outputs compressed image data comprises a detection unit which detects a motion or change of each scene, a determination unit which determines the detected motion amount or change amount, a switch circuit which controls a frame rate in accordance with the results of determination, and a compression encoding unit which compression-encodes the image data. The apparatus performs control such that an image having small motion amount and small change amount with respect to a predetermined image is not compression-encoded, so that the frame rate in a scene where the motion or change is large is higher than that in a scene where the motion and change are small.

Image data compression or expansion method and apparatus, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and device

An image data expansion apparatus including a decoder for decoding compressed image data at a frame rate controlled to be lower in a scene where the change is small than that in a scene where the change is large; an expander for expanding the compressed image data decoded by the decoder, the input image data being reproduced such that the frame rate is lower in a scene where the change between images is small than the frame rate in a scene where the change between images is large; and an image interpolator for generating an interpolation image from the input predetermined compressed image data in accordance with the information on the frame rate outputted with the compression image data. The reproduced input image data is interpolated with an interpolation image generated by interpolation processing by the image interpolator, and the interpolated image data is outputted.

A digital recording and reproducing system wherein luminance signals digitized and converted into the low speed signals and chrominance signals digitized at the time of recording are distributed among a plural number of channels and the signals of the plural number of channels are recorded respectively on a recording medium. At the time of the reproduction, the signals of the plural number of the channels are reproduced respectively from the recording medium and combined to form the luminance signals and the chrominance signals respectively. The luminance signals in the combined signal are converted into a high speed signal and output terminals for outputting dubbing signals from the system for dubbing the signals are led. The output side of a low speed-to-high speed converter and a channel combination circuit.

Digital signal recording and reproducing system having an interface for

Disclosed is an apparatus in which a picture signal is converted into digital signals and the digital signals are recorded into a recording medium, and which is suitable to perform dubbing of the digital signals reproduced from the recording medium. The apparatus employs the component method in which a luminance signal and chrominance signals constituting a picture signal are recorded separately from each other. According to the component method, the sampling frequency of the chrominance signal is set to be about 1/3-1/4 of that of the luminance signal, and therefore the recording/reproducing of a picture signal is carried out after the bit rate of the digital luminance signal is converted into a value equal to the bit rate of the digital chrominance signal. When digital dubbing is carried out between two apparatus each employing the component method, the taking-in and taking-out of signals to be dubbed are performed with respect to the digital luminance signals and digital chrominance signals having the same bit rate with each other.

Dubbing method and apparatus for digital recording reproducing apparatus

An apparatus for regenerating original signals comprising: means for introducing a first signal that is produced as an original signal passes through a system that cuts off predetermined frequencies; a first circuit means which produces a third signal obtained on an open loop responsive to said first signal and a second signal which is regenerated from a signal of a predetermined frequency that is cut off by said system; and a second circuit means which regenerates the original signal by converting said third signal into a binary signal.

Apparatus for regenerating original signals

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Kasama, Japan

Yuichi Michikawa