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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:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasuji Hirabayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382239 ; 382232 ;
Abstract
An amount of data coded in the past is detected at a prescribed period. Criteria for deciding whether a pixel block of interest is to be coded by processing for motion-compensated coding of interframe difference, processing for coding of interframe difference without motion compensation or processing for intraframe coding are adjusted based upon the amount of code detected.