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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
May. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Aono, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ;
Abstract
A moving image coding method and its apparatus are disclosed, in which a frame of input image is divided into N regions so that each boundary may be short, one of the divided regions is selected in an arbitrary sequence in every frame to be coded, the coding mode is determined as intra-frame coding in this selected region, and the coding mode is determined by the characteristic of the frame image in other regions so as to code according to this coding mode.