Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Srinivasan, Sridhar

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2006280226

PCT Pub. Number WO2007/021568

Priority 11/203,008 12.08.05 US

Filing date 3 August 2006

Wipo publication date 22 February 2007

Acceptance publication date 17 March 2011

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

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

H04N 7/12 (2006.01) Television systems - Systems in which the television signal is transmitted one channel or a plurality of parallel channels, the bandwidth of each channel being less than the bandwidth of the television signal