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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. 13, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takeshi Yukitake, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358136 ; 358135 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a high-efficient coding apparatus for video signal which is intended to control a quantizing step width finely depending on the quality of a inputted image. The coding apparatus is designed to obtain an average value of prediction errors at blocks, each block on which the orthogonal transform is carried out and to define the upper limit of a quantizing step width output from the quantizing step width control circuit depending on the average value. It results in making it possible to finely control the quantizing step width particularly based on each part of the image from a background to a dynamic area.