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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. 08, 2007

Filed:

May. 14, 2001
Applicants:

Octavius J. Morris, Redhill, GB;

Wilhelmus H. A. Bruls, Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Octavius J. Morris, Redhill, GB;

Wilhelmus H. A. Bruls, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of, and apparatus for, encoding and multiplexing a digital video picture are provided using intra-coded fields only at a relatively high bit-rate, with each picture being encoded as a sequence of slices from the video image field. The encoding suitably complies with MPEG or similar requirements, and the intra-coding is further constrained so that the maximum number of bits for each slice in the picture is limited, and the delivery schedule of the bits to a decoder is more tightly constrained than is implied by the MPEG decoding models. In this way it is possible to build a high quality, low cost MPEG (or similar) encoder and decoder for video communications over digital interconnection standards such as IEEE 1394.


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