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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:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideaki Kimata, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a video communication system and a video communication method along with a computer readable recording medium which records the video communication program. When encoding the input picture, the encoded reference picture selecting unit switches the reference picture to the latest previously encoded picture depending on the designation contents by the continuous reference designation data and the specified reference designation data sent from the continuous reference picture designation data sending unit and the specified reference picture designation data sending unit on the receiving side.