Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Specific signal processing circuitry
Patent
1986-12-09
1988-11-01
Groody, James J.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Specific signal processing circuitry
358135, 358138, 358 12, 375 28, 341 88, H04N 712
Patent
active
047823879
ABSTRACT:
A video codec is used to reduce the bandwidth of a video signal for storage and/or transmission. To transmit an uncoded quality color NTSC television signal is digitized form requires channel bandwidth typically 90-120 Mb/s for the signal in the composite format and 216 Mb/s for the signal in the component format. The proposed video codec achieves a reduction of the required transmission bandwidth by a factor of 2-3 by splitting the imput signal into two channels, a main and a complementary channel, and by applying different coding techniques in each. In the main channel the input signal is subsampled and DPCM encoded using a fixed-rate companded quantization, whereas VWL and block coding is used to encode the complementary channel carrying the interpolation error signal. This arrangement seeks to ensure high picture quality while being easily adaptable to different transmission rates and signal formats. In bandwidth-on-demand applications the main channel cna be used alone to provide a lesser quality signal, for example CATV quality at 35 Md/s, with an attendant reduction in system complexity.
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Golembiowski Albert
Prasada Birendra
Sabri Mohamed S.
Adams Thomas
Groody James J.
Northern Telecom Limited
Peng John K.
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