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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Applicants:
Yau Wai Lucas Hui, Singapore, SG;
Hong Lye OH, Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Yau Wai Lucas Hui, Singapore, SG;
Hong Lye Oh, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus control bit rates used in a moving pictures encoder, such as an MPEG standard encoder. A sequence of moving pictures is divided into segments each of which comprises one or more groups of pictures. A constant overall bit rate is specified for the sequence of pictures, but variable bit rate encoding used within each segment. A difference between the number of bits allocated for encoding the segment and the actual bits used for encoding is determined, and the difference distributed over one or more subsequent segments.