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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:
May. 12, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard W Citta, Oak Park, IL (US);
Stephen M Dicke, Wheeling, IL (US);
Assignee:
Zenith Electronics Corporation, Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358133 ; 358136 ; 382 56 ;
Abstract
A video image signal is transform coded to derive a plurality of blocks of transform coefficients, the coefficients of each block being separated into horizontal, vertical and diagonal spatially related regions. A plurality of values each representing the degree to which a portion of the video image is characterized by a respective image related perceptual characteristic are derived in responsee to the estimated energy in the three regions. The derived perceptual values are combined and weighted to provide a single output value corresponding to each coefficient block.