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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuhisa Hosaka, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01); H04N 19/91 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2013.01); H04N 19/00951 (2013.01);
Abstract

A significant digit number encoding unit designates a predetermined number of coefficient data items generated from image data as a set. The maximum number of significant digits that have the greatest absolute value in relation to each set every cycle is obtained and information is encoded regarding the maximum number. An absolute value is extracted for the maximum number of each coefficient data item in a set; and the absolute value is encoded at a cycle different from that of the significant digit number encoding unit. A sign encoding unit encodes a positive or negative sign of each coefficient data item in a set whose absolute value is not 0 at a cycle different from that of the absolute value encoding unit.


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