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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:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1988
John Music, Irvine, CA (US);
Gordon H Smith, Santa Ana, CA (US);
James L Thomas, Placentia, CA (US);
Universal Video Communications Corp., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
The method and system of compressing and decompressing digital color video data in a video communication system utilizes a digital color video signal having three video color components, and involves the determination of a predetermined number of the most visually significant combinations of color components in a picture frame, and the encoding of the color components as compressed color codes in a series of run length and compressed color code combinations. Line-to-line differences and movement of edges and segments of the picture frames are determined, and frame-to-frame differences are also encoded to reduce the amount of information to a minimum. Further statistical encoding of at least a portion of the run length and color code combinations is also provided. The digitally compressed color component codes are decoded according to a look up table to form a table of the three digital color components for each run length, and the run lengths and corresponding color components are stored in an array in a buffer memory to represent the scan lines in a video picture frame.