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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:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hirofumi Uchida, Neyagawa, JP;
Tatsuro Juri, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358310 ; 358335 ; 360 32 ; 360 48 ;
Abstract
A video image of one frame is divided into a plurality of super blocks, and each super block comprises a plurality of macro blocks. A video segment comprising five macro blocks taken out from five super blocks located apart from each other on the video image, and data compression operation is applied in the video segment. After data compression, the macro blocks in the video segment are rearranged in the original order, and are formed to corresponding SYNC block data to record on a magnetic tape.