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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
May. 09, 1996
Jan Van Der Meer, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for transmitting a series of images of a full motion video scene in a digital format whereby the series of images is divided into a number of sub-series which, when interleaved, represent the original series. A ranking order of increasing magnitude is allocated to consecutive sub-series. Each image of a sub-series is converted into an image data block, while images from one or more sub-series having a lower order of precedence are considered for this conversion. A packet header indicating the ranking order of the sub-series with which the corresponding image is associated is added to each image data block. A display apparatus is adapted to select those image data blocks which have predetermined packet headers and to subject the image data blocks thus selected to a decoding process. The number of different packet headers which is selected determines the temporal resolution of the scene to be displayed.