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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. 05, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2005
Applicants:
Emin Martinian, Arlington, MA (US);
Gregory W. Wornell, Wellesley, MA (US);
Ram Zamir, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Emin Martinian, Arlington, MA (US);
Gregory W. Wornell, Wellesley, MA (US);
Ram Zamir, Tel Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Described are techniques for performing lossy encoding. Source data and quality data are received by an encoder. The encoder maps the source data into a compressed representation having a level of distortion in accordance with the quality information. The compressed representation may be decoded without using the quality information.