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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. 05, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Iraj Sodagar, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Hung-Ju Lee, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Assignees:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382240 ; 348398 ; 348403 ; 382248 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and a concomitant method is disclosed for encoding wavelet trees in a wavelet-based coding technique, which addresses both balanced and unbalanced wavelet trees and increases the overall coding efficiency.