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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2004
Mikio Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Higuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuhiko Tsushima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The number of decoders necessary for ½-speed reproduction is reduced and deterioration in resolution is restricted without necessitating an interpolation processing. First digital image signals and second digital image signals having a different frame rate from that of the first digital image signals are compressed on the basis of one same encoding system. Based on a method of rearranging macro blocks of the second digital image signals, the macro blocks of the first digital image signals are rearranged, so that the respective digital image signals compression-encoded and outputted can have macro block layouts equivalent to each other.