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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Mandayam Narasimhan, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert O. Eifrig, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mandayam Narasimhan, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert O. Eifrig, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sequence of picture slices is encoded as reference slices and non-reference slices, wherein the reference slices include B slices, by forming, for each B slice, at least one data packet containing data values derived from brightness and color information pertaining to the slice. The data packet for each B slice includes a header element indicating whether the B slice is a reference slice. The header element of each reference B slice has a value that depends on depth of the reference B slice in a hierarchy of discardability.