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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
May. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Yau Wai Lucas Hui, Singapore, SG;
Inventor:
Yau Wai Lucas Hui, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Limited, Singapore, SG;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for encoding pictures of a moving pictures sequence according to an overall target bit-rate, such as in a MPEG video encoder. Each picture has an assigned picture coding type for which a quality factor is adaptively determined according to past bit usages, so that bits can be adaptively allocated amongst picture types for optimizing visual quality of the encoded pictures.