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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2001
Renatus Josephus Van Der Vleuten, Eindhoven, NL;
Richard Petrus Kleihorst, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Storing of data items in a memory ( ) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory ( ), and when applying a data piece to the memory ( ) in case all candidate memory parts are assigned to other data pieces: if the significance of the applied data piece is lower than a lowest significance of the other data pieces, discarding the applied data piece; if the significance of the applied data piece is higher than the lowest significance, storing the applied data piece in one of the candidate memory parts at expense of a given other data piece which has a lower significance than the significance of the applied data piece. Advantageous use of the invention is made in applications using a device of fixed storage capacity for storing compressible data, such as video, images, audio, speech.