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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:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 ;
Abstract
A data compression device for correctly allotting limited amounts of data and performing high image quality compression of video data by means of a method suitable for an authoring device such as the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) technique so that when the desired amount of data for compression is set based on the data quantity detected by the previous data compression processing, the target bit quantity is set in specified block units, allotted to separate frames and then corrected by means of the individual block structure.