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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Laurence Andry, Yerres, FR;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to the use of a human visual system (HVS) in a video encoder. A coding method and device are proposed in which the allocation of bits are efficiently modified over each current picture according to the fact that the eye is more or less sensitive to each area of said picture. In view of said re-allocation, a specific computation of so-called perceptual coefficients is proposed and leads to an improved visual quality, while ensuring that the global rate control performance of the encoder is not modified.