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Method and apparatus for coding motion image signal

CA 1266912 C · Owner: Nec Corporation · Inventors: Mochizuki, Takashi

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An encoder in an encoder/decoder system includes a circuit for orthogonally transforming an input image signal, a circuit for receiving the input image signal judging which orthogonal transformation coefficient is to be omitted and which orthogonal transformation coefficient is to be interframe-coded, and outputting a judgment result as mode information, and a circuit for receiving an output signal from the orthogonal transformation circuit omitting the orthogonal transformation coefficient according the mode information, and outputting a coded image signal. In a decoder in the encoder/decoder system the orthogonal transformation coefficient is omitted on the basis of the mode information …

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  • Granted March 20, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 20, 2007.
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FiledSeptember 24, 1987
GrantedMarch 20, 1990
Term endedMarch 20, 2007
Patent numberCA 1266912 C
Classification (IPC)H04N7/50 +2 more

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