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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1995
Hae-Mook Jung, Seoul, KR;
Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus, capable of improving the overall coding efficiency by encoding an image signal having a still object based on an improved object oriented coding technique, comprises a first detector for detecting a contour image signal placed at the boundary of the object within the image signal and for encoding the detected contour image signal, to thereby generate a first encoded image signal; a divider for dividing the image signal into a plurality of image blocks with a predetermined identical size; a second detector for detecting image blocks containing the contour image signal from the image blocks and for generating a reconstructed image block for each of the detected image blocks; an encoder, responsive to a selection signal corresponding to the type of the image blocks, for selectively encoding the reconstructed image blocks or the non-detected image blocks, to thereby produce a second encoded image signal; and a formatter for formatting the first and the second encoded image signals.