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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:
May. 17, 2005

Filed:

May. 02, 2003
Applicant:

Justin Ridge, Sachse, TX (US);

Inventor:

Justin Ridge, Sachse, TX (US);

Assignee:

Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F007/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and corresponding equipment () for encoding different types of objects of a multimedia data stream so as to provide improved overall quality (Q), according to relationships () between quality (Q) and encoding size/transmission rate (R) for each object, and according to penalties () for removing objects from the multimedia data stream. A multimedia data stream is provided in which the quality of the different objects tends to be similar according to rules provided by the invention for assigning a value of quality to each of the different kinds of objects of the multimedia stream.


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