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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hirohisa Shiojiri, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 ;
Abstract
A moving picture transmission system includes a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus transmits a maximum number of pieces of information obtained by hierarchically coding moving picture information in accordance with degrees of importance in terms of image quality within a moving picture frame period in the order of decreasing degrees of importance. The reception apparatus reproduces a moving picture frame in accordance with only hierarchically coded information received at a moving picture frame period. A moving picture transmission apparatus is also disclosed.