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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990

Filed:

Nov. 28, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jacques Guichard, Paris, FR;

Gerard Eude, Torcy, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358133 ; 358136 ; 375 26 ; 375 27 ;
Abstract

The coding and decoding devices embodying the invention are connected by two paths, a main path and an auxiliary path, of a variable rate digital transmission network. When the main path is capable of dispatching the totality of the information rate that the coding device is able to issue, only a main coder and a main decoder, respectively of the coding and decoding devices, are active. When the main path is not capable of dispatching the totality of the picture information, an auxiliary coder and an auxiliary decoder, respectively of the coding and decoding devices, are also active and the auxiliary path dispatches the part of the information rate that cannot be dispatched by the main path. A decoder and a subtracter are provided in the coding device so as to estimate the part of information not transmitted by the main path.


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