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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
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.