Owner Thomson Licensing S.A.

Inventors Boyce, Jill MacDonald

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-B-2003249056

PCT Number PCT/US03/21735

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/008762

Priority 60/395,874 15.07.02 US; 10/410,481 09.04.03 US; 60/395,843 15.07.02 US

Filing date 14 July 2003

Wipo publication date 2 February 2004

Acceptance publication date 3 September 2009

H04N 7/32 (2006.01) Television systems - involving predictive coding

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

H03M 7/36 (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 differential modulation with several bits, i.e. the difference between successive samples being coded by more than one bit

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

H04N 7/46 (2006.01) Television systems - using subsampling at the coder and sample restitution by interpolation at the coder or decoder

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