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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:
Mar. 11, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2003
Applicants:
Toshiyuki Ishioka, Takatsuki, JP;
Tsutomu Sekibe, Hirakata, JP;
Inventors:
Toshiyuki Ishioka, Takatsuki, JP;
Tsutomu Sekibe, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
When advance prediction is conducted for overflows and underflows, which are both types of buffer errors, and the occurrence of a buffer error is predicted, frames that a viewer will be unlikely to notice even if playback is omitted or conducted for a different duration from a predetermined standard duration are omitted or played for a different playback duration.