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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Maxell, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Maxell, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/182 (2014.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 9/77 (2006.01); H04N 19/184 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/184 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11);
Abstract
Reduction in power consumption is not considered in the prior art documents. Provided is an encoding method for encoding image information and having: a step in which image information is input; an analysis step in which the characteristics of the input image information are analyzed; a bit depth output step in which the bit depth for video encoding is determined and output; and an encoding step in which the bit depth output in the bit depth output step is used and the input image information is encoded. The encoding method is characterized by the output bit depth being switched in the bit depth output step, on the basis of the analysis results from the analysis step.