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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Takashi Nakao, Hyogo, JP;

Yoshiko Hatano, Tokyo, JP;

Junko Kijima, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuhiro Sugiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; G06K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; G06K 9/36 ;
Abstract

As the video signals of macroblocks are coded, they are stored in a buffer. When the total code length of the stored macroblocks exceeds a predetermined value, all but the most recently coded macroblock are output from the buffer as a video packet, and the most recently coded macroblock is coded again. To minimize this occurrence, when each coded macroblock is stored, the code length of the next macroblock is predicted and added to the total length, and if the resulting sum exceeds the predetermined value, all of the coded macroblocks stored in the buffer are output as a video packet.


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