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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:
Nov. 28, 1995

Filed:

Nov. 13, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Vivek Bhargava, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Andrew Jue, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael A Van Scherrenburg, Cupertino, CA (US);

Les J Wilson, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Assignee:

National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348420 ;
Abstract

A video image frame consisting of a two-dimensional array of picture elements (pixels) is decomposed into a set of rectangular image portions (tiles). Within each tile, variance between pixel intensity values is less than a predetermined value. A tile is encoded by a value set identifying the tile and including a single intensity value for all pixels in the tile. Frame-to-frame variation of the video image is encoded by inter-frame tile comparison and encoding of sub-tiles representative of change from a previous frame to a current frame.


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