Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Vo, Tung (Department: 2621)
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
active
10644258
ABSTRACT:
A video encoder performs multi-resolution video coding. For example, the encoder adaptively changes frame sizes to reduce blocking artifacts at low bitrates. A video decoder performs corresponding multi-resolution decoding.
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Holcomb Thomas W.
Lin Chih-Lung (Bruce)
Regunathan Shankar
Srinivasan Sridhar
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Microsoft Corporation
Senfi Behrooz
Vo Tung
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