Encoding data generation method and device

• US 7,528,746 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2007
• Issued: 05/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Adachi, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): YOUNG, BRIAN K
• Application Number:
  US11/835,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20070273570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 341/50, 341/59, 341/76, 341/150, 701/1, 701/29, 701/35
• US Class Current: 341/76
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/20 Contour coding, e.g. using detection of edges
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/00 Maps; Plans; Charts; Diagrams, e.g. route diagram star maps G09B27/04; devices for holding or supporting maps A47B97/02; for computing purposes G06G1/14, G09B1/16; display boards G09F
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/30 Compression speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/40 Conversion to or from variable length codes, e.g. Shannon-Fano code, Huffman code, Morse code

Abstract

In a coded data generation method of resampling a road shape for setting a plurality of nodes, arranging position information of each node represented by a deflection angle from the immediately preceding node to generate a data string of the deflection angles, converting the deflection angles into predicted difference values each indicating the difference from the predicted value, and variable-length coding the data string of the predicted difference values, the data string of the predicted difference values when the deflection angles are converted into the predicted difference values is evaluated and a prediction expression to calculate the predicted value is selected adaptively from among a plurality of prediction expressions φ=1, φ=2, φ=3, and φ=4 based on the evaluation result. The prediction expression to calculate the predicted value is selected adaptively in response to road shape A, B, C, D, so that the data compression effectiveness is enhanced.

Claims

1. A method of coding a linear object represented by a string of latitude and longitude coordinates, the method comprising:

sampling the linear object at a constant length;

representing the sampled linear object by two elements of the constant length and a data of angles, each angle being determined by a line from a first point to a downstream point;

converting the data string of the angles into a data string of deflection angles, each deflection angle showing a direction difference between a line from a second point to a downstream point and another line from an upstream point to the second point;

converting the data string of deflection angles into a data string of predicted difference values, each predicted difference value being provided by obtaining a difference between a predicted deflection angle on a third point predicted by a prediction formula using a deflection angle on an upstream point and the actual deflection angle of the third point; and

variable-length coding the data string of the predicted difference values.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the linear object is a road shape.

5. A method of decoding a coded data string of predicted difference value coded by a method according to claim 1, the method comprising:

variable-length decoding the data string of the predicted difference values;

converting the data string of the predicted difference values into a data string of deflection angles using the prediction formula used when converting the data string of the deflection angles into the data string of the predicted difference values; and

reproducing a linear object based on the data string of the deflection angles.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the linear object is a road shape.

7. A receiving apparatus for decoding coded string of predicted difference values coded by a transmission apparatus according to claim 5, the receiving apparatus comprising:

a decoding unit for variable-length decoding the data string of the predicted difference values;

a converting unit for converting the data string of the predicted difference values into a data string of deflection angles using the prediction formula used in the transmission apparatus when converting the data string of the deflection angles into the data string of the predicted difference values; and

a reproducing unit for reproducing a linear object based on the data string of the deflecting angles.

8. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the linear object is a road shape.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first, second and third points correspond to a same point.

3. A transmission apparatus for coding a linear object represented by a string of latitude and longitude coordinates, the transmission apparatus comprising:

a sampling unit for sampling the linear object at a constant length;

a representing unit for representing the sampled linear object by two elements of the constant length and a data string of angles, each angle being determined by a line from a first point to a downstream point;

a converting unit for converting the data string of the angles into a data string of deflection angles, each deflection angle showing a direction difference between a line from a second point to a downstream point and another line from an upstream point to the second point;

a converting unit for converting the data string of the deflection angle into a data string of predicted difference values, each predicted difference value being provided by obtaining a difference between a predicted deflection angle on a third point predicted by a prediction formula using a deflection angle on an upstream point and the actual deflection angle of the third point; and

a coding unit for variable-length coding the data string of the predicted difference value.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the linear object is a road shape.

10. The transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first, second and third points correspond to a same point.