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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1997
James Hedley Wilkinson, Tadley, GB;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
An MPEG2 encoded signal comprising intra-encoded pictures I and inter-encoded pictures B is decoded (70-74) to baseband and re-encoded (76) to I-pictures. The quantisation levels Q.sub.v and the motion vectors M.sub.v of the B pictures are retained unchanged and maintained in association with the corresponding pictures re-encoded as I-pictures. The I-pictures can be decoded to baseband, processed, and re-encoded as I-pictures without degradation. The I-pictures can then be re-encoded back to e.g. I, B pictures with minimal degradation. Alternatively, some of the I-pictures are decoded and converted to B pictures retaining unchanged the quantisation levels thereof.