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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:
Apr. 03, 1990
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 digital color video data in a video communication system utilizes a digital color video signal having three video color components, and the encoding of the color components as compressed color codes in a series of run length and compressed color code combinations. A look up table of compressed color codes representing the most visually significant combinations of three color components may also be modified by a process which involves the determination of a predetermined number of the most visually significant combinations of color components in a picture frame. 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.