Coding means for a signal processing system

• US 5,223,949 A
• Filed: 04/17/1992
• Issued: 06/29/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Honjo, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): BRINICH, STEPHEN M
• Application Number:
  US07/870,250
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 358/426-427, 358/261.1-261.2, 382/56
• US Class Current: 382/236
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/142 Detection of scene cut or scene change
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/179 the unit being a scene or a shot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/503 involving temporal prediction adaptive coding with adaptive selection between spatial and temporal predictive coding H04N19/107; adaptive coding with adaptive selection among a plurality of temporal predictive coding modes H04N19/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/577 Motion compensation with bidirectional frame interpolation, i.e. using B-pictures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/87 involving scene cut or scene change detection in combination with video compression

Abstract

The coded signal is output with a frame sequence that differs from the frame sequence of the input video signal by outputting the frame information coded by in-frame or inter-frame coding before the frame information coded bay interpolation coding based on the successively preceding frames. Frames immediately preceding a scene change are coded by a method other than field interpolation coding, frames immediately after a scene change are coded by in-frame coding, and the coded information for the frame immediately after the scene change is output after the coded information for the frame immediately before the scene change.

Claims

1. A signal processing system comprising a coding means for band compression coding of an input video signal in units of a predetermined data length, said coding means selectively performing a first coding method in which coding is made using data within a unit selected form said units and a second coding method in which coding is made using data of the units precedent to the selected unit, and

an output control means for controlling a sequence of output information from said coding means regarding said units, said output control means outputting said output information in such a sequence different from the sequence of the input video signal, such that the output information regarding the unit having been coded using said first coding method is output before the output information regarding the units having been coded using said second coding method is output.

2. The signal processing system according to claim 1 wherein said coding means performs further a third coding method in which coding is made using data of the units before and after the selected unit.

3. The signal processing system according to claim 2 wherein said system further comprises a scene change detection means for detecting scene changes and, when a scene change is detected, said coding means codes the unit immediately preceding the scene change with a method other than said third coding method and the unit immediately after the scene change with said first coding method, and said output control means outputs the coded information for the unit immediately after the scene change after the coded information for the unit immediately before the scene change is output.

4. The signal processing system according to claim 2, wherein said output control means outputs said output information regarding the unit having been coded using said first coding method before the output information regarding the units having been coded using said third coding method is output.

5. A decoding processing system for decoding coded data for a video signal, comprising;

data switching means for sensing said coded data to a first, second, or third decoding means; and

control means for controlling where said data switching means sends said coded data, based on information contained in said coded data, wherein the coded data sent to said first, second and third decoding means is decoded in said decoding means and image information contained in said decoded data is output to a buffer means.