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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:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eiji Miyagoshi, Katano, JP;
Akihiro Watabe, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; H03M 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; H03M 7/00 ;
Abstract
A picture data encoding apparatus includes a target bit amount determining part for calculating a target bit amount for each block according to a bit rate and a number of blocks to be converted; and a bit amount adjusting part for reducing a bit amount for each block to the target bit amount by means of reducing the bit amount for each code by converting run level information for each code into lower run level information.