Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-07
2005-06-07
Lee, Young (Department: 2613)
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
C375S240110, C375S240190
Reexamination Certificate
active
06904091
ABSTRACT:
Images are subband transformed to create a plurality of subband images. Each subband image includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel is represented by a plurality of bits with each bit associated to a certain quantization level. Encoding of an image requires scanning essentially all the bits of essentially all the pixels of the image. While scanning in a particular order, one can exploit dependencies within groups of bits consecutively scanned for encoding purposes. Thus, bits of groups can be encoded together. In a subband and transformed image, the scanning order or scanning curve is defined by indicating in which order the system traverses the several subbands and the several quantization levels. One method is characterized in that the set of scanned bits which will be encoded together, and which thus form a group, bits of at least two different sub-images and at least two different quantization levels are recognized.
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Cornelis Jan
Schelkens Peter
IMEC VZW
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Lee Young
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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