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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rajendra K Talluri, Plano, TX (US);
Arnab Das, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Thomas J Bannon, Dallas, TX (US);
Jonathan D Courtney, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382194 ; 382180 ; 382237 ;
Abstract
A video compression method and system including object-oriented compression with object boundaries described by maps of 2.times.2 (or larger) blocks of pixels in which at least a fraction of the pixels of such blocks are in the object.