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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:
Aug. 25, 1992

Filed:

Oct. 18, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Koubun Sakagami, Yokohama, JP;

Masafumi Tanaka, Osaka, JP;

Eiichi Maeda, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358432 ; 358479 ; 358909 ; 382 56 ;
Abstract

An image data processing apparatus includes a converter for subjecting each block to a discrete cosine transform (DCT) to convert blocks into DCT coefficients, a first memory for temporarily storing the DCT coefficients, a second memory for storing threshold values of a quantization matrix which is used for quantizing the DCT coefficients, a quantizing part for quantizing the DCT coefficients, a differential part for obtaining a difference in D.C. components of quantized DCT coefficients related to present and previous blocks, a zero detector for detecting whether or not A.C. components of the quantized DCT coefficient are zero coefficients, a counter for counting a number of successive zero coefficients of the A.C. components, a coder for subjecting the D.C. and A.C. components to a Huffman coding to output a coded D.C. and A.C. components, a first register for storing an address of an arbitrary DCT coefficient, a comparator for comparing an address where the DCT coefficient is stored in the first memory and the address in the first register, and a second register for holding the DCT coefficient output from the converter when the two compared addresses match.


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