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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Takayuki Sugahara, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Ichiro Ando, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
An image representing input signal is processed so the data therein are filtered in a predetermined manner to derive a filtered signal. The values of the filtered signal are combined at successive time intervals, and the values are combined so there is an addition of a function of values of the filtered signal at the successive time intervals to derive a combined signal. The combined signal is converted into a signal representing a predicted number of bits in a frame of the image. In response to the signal representing a predicted number of bits in a frame of the image, a signal representing the magnitude of a control for quantization step size is derived which is as a function of an error between the predicted number of bits and a predetermined target value therefor. A function of the input signal data is orthogonally transformed so a transformed signal is derived. Output data represented by the transformed signal are quantized so they have quantized step size determined by the control signal representing the magnitude of a quantization step size and there is a reduction in the number of data bits for the image relative to the number of data bits in the input signal.