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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:
Jun. 23, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jae S Lim, Winchester, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348390 ; 348420 ; 348441 ;
Abstract
For a television signal having a succession of video frames, at least some of which have an image area and a non-image area, a frame having a non-image area is encoded by generating identification data descriptive of the location within the frame of the non-image area, video encoding only the image area to produce encoded image data, and providing the identification data and the encoded image data as outputs for subsequent decoding of the frame.