Owner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Inventors Hagai, Makoto; Abe, Kiyofumi; Kondo, Satoshi; Kadono, Shinya

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2002357584

PCT Number PCT/JP02/12230

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/045065

Priority 2002-99227 01.04.02 JP; 2001-358197 22.11.01 JP

Filing date 22 November 2002

Wipo publication date 10 June 2003

Acceptance publication date 21 June 2007

H04N 7/26 (2006.01) Television systems - using bandwidth reduction

G06T 9/00 (2006.01) Image coding, e.g. from bit-mapped to non bit-mapped

G11B 20/14 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - using self-clocking codes

H03M 5/14 (2006.01) Conversion of the form of the representation of individual digits

H03M 7/40 (2006.01) Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits - Conversion to or from variable length codes, e.g. Shannon-Fano code, Huffman code, Morse code

H03M 7/46 (2006.01) Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits - Conversion to or from run-length codes, i.e. by representing the number of consecutive digits, or groups of digits, of the same kind by a code word and a digit indicative of that kind

H04N 7/30 (2006.01) Television systems - involving transform coding

H04N 7/50 (2006.01) Television systems - involving transform and predictive coding