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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:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2012
Applicants:
Ryosuke Uematsu, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Hojo, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Ogawa, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A compression controller is capable of executing prediction mode selection for selecting any one of forward prediction, backward prediction, or bidirectional prediction as a prediction mode used for encoding based on spatial frequencies of an image to be encoded. The compression controller determines whether or not to execute the prediction mode selection based on image mobility information indicating an amount of motion in the image to be encoded.