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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:
Mar. 31, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2007
Applicants:

Ken Kengkuan Lin, Redwood, CA (US);

Peter Hungye Chou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shahriar Mohammad Akramullah, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ken Kengkuan Lin, Redwood, CA (US);

Peter Hungye Chou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shahriar Mohammad Akramullah, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 19/146 (2014.01); H04N 19/15 (2014.01); H04N 19/174 (2014.01); H04N 19/436 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/146 (2014.11); H04N 19/15 (2014.11); H04N 19/174 (2014.11); H04N 19/436 (2014.11);
Abstract

A method and system are provided for encoding a picture. The method includes encoding the picture into a first encoded picture using a first universal quantizer. If a size of the first encoded picture is greater than a maximum picture size, the method includes encoding the picture into a second encoded picture using a second universal quantizer. Before a second-pass encoding, the target size and maximum size for each slice is determined. During the second pass encoding, if a size of the encoded slice is greater than the maximum slice size, the method includes encoding the slice using a third local quantizer. If a size of the encoded slice is still greater than a maximum slice size, the method includes dropping coefficients from the encoded slice to ensure that the encoded size never exceeds the maximum size.


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