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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. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3488451 ; 348420 ; 358431 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image signal reproducing apparatus, in which code errors are concealed by using only pixel data corresponding to parts of the pixels of respective two or more adjacent blocks both of which are adjacent to a subject block to be concealed in the same frame, to conceal the code errors without disturbing the image even if the image is rapidly moving and all of pixels included in the block are not available.