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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:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Seok-Won Han, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348416 ; 348402 ; 348413 ; 348699 ; 382243 ;
Abstract
A method for encoding mode signals of a target block of M.times.N pixels having a binary value `0` or `255` is provided. If the target block is determined as neither 'all.sub.-- 0' nor 'all.sub.-- 255', the target block is divided into a top field and a bottom field, wherein the top field contains every odd row of the target block to have M/2.times.N pixels and the bottom field contains every even row of the target block to have M/2.times.N pixels. After encoding the top field, the method encodes the bottom field based on the top field to generate modified bottom field-coded data and a modified bottom mode.