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Digital image recording and/or reproducing apparatus using a plurality of compression methods

  • US 6,192,190 B1
  • Filed: 05/30/1995
  • Issued: 02/20/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A digital image recording apparatus comprising:

  • (a) data compressing means, including at least block-encoding means for compressing input digital image data according to a correlation between signals within each block divided from said input digital image data on a unit basis of a block, for providing digital image data compressed with different compression rates according to different operating conditions of said block-encoding means;

    (b) control means for manually selecting digital image data from the compressed digital image data of the different compression rates provided by said data compression means, on a unit basis of one frame of a picture image; and

    (c) means for recording (1) the digital image data selected by said control means and (2) data associated with the compression rate of said digital image data selected by said control means.

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