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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:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masaaki Higashida, Moriguchi, JP;
Masataka Higuchi, Toyono-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358452 ; 358453 ; 358426 ; 358432 ; 348415 ; 382258 ; 382299 ; 382318 ;
Abstract
To reduce an amount of image data to transmit, and thereby achieve efficient utilization of a data transmission line, only coarse image information containing at least DC components of compressed image data stored in compressed form in a video server is transferred into a personal computer for display, and based on the displayed image, an editor performs edit work on the image of interest and produces additional information relating to the image.