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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. 01, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
James M Hardiman, Mendon, MA (US);
Assignee:
Media 100 Inc., Marlboro, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348405 ; 36471502 ;
Abstract
An apparatus that compresses video data uses a compression coder having control registers loaded with compression parameters, the apparatus being controlled to sense the size of compressed video data resulting from compressing a portion of source video data using a set of compression parameters, to automatically reload compression parameters that change as a function of the sensed size of compressed video data (the changed parameters being used with the next portion of video data to be compressed), and to store with each compressed portion an indication of the compression parameters used in compressing the portion.