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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:
Dec. 21, 2004

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Rieko Furukawa, Yokohama, JP;

Takeshi Nagai, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; H04N 1/102 ; H04N 1/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; H04N 1/102 ; H04N 1/104 ;
Abstract

An video encoding method and a video encoding apparatus wherein an input video signal is divided into a plurality of temporally continuous scenes each including at least one frame, statistical feature amounts are calculated for each of the scenes, encoded parameters are generated for each of the scenes based on said statistical feature amounts, and the input image signal is encoded using the encoded parameters.


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