Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-26
2010-11-09
Diep, Nhon T (Department: 2621)
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
active
07830966
ABSTRACT:
The object of the present invention is to provide an image encoding device and decoding device which allows the maximum compression rate to be achieved with a visually uniform level of picture quality.The present invention has a characteristic pixel extractor0309which encodes input images by small region unit in accordance with an irreversible compression method, decodes the encoded data which is created, and utilizes the input image and decoded image obtained after decoding to extract characteristic pixels, a characteristic distortion calculator0311which utilizes characteristic pixels to calculate characteristic distortion of the decoded image in relation to the input image, and an encoding parameter controller0312which controls parameter values determining the degree of data compression in line with the extent of characteristic distortion. The regions of picture quality of a visually uniform level thus obtained are all compressed using an image compression method with a high compression efficiency, thus allowing the maximum compression rate to be achieved.
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Iwasaki Keisuke
Kagechi Kensaku
Saiga Hisashi
Conlin David G.
Diep Nhon T
Edwards Angell Palmer & & Dodge LLP
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Tucker David A.
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