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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2001
Applicants:
Yuji Fujiwara, Nishinomiya, JP;
Masakazu Nishino, Kashiwara, JP;
Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Nishinomiya, JP;
Inventors:
Yuji Fujiwara, Nishinomiya, JP;
Masakazu Nishino, Kashiwara, JP;
Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Nishinomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image signal encoding device has at least encoding means of dividing a luminescence signal and color-difference signals of image signals into macro blocks having a plurality of sub macro blocks and encoding data of the macro blocks with use of any one of a plurality of compression modes of which compression rate is different each other,