Abstract:
In an encoding system for use with video signals, the velocity of a subject between two frames is estimated and used to predict the location of the subject in a succeeding frame. Differential encoding between this prediction and the actual succeeding frame are used to update the prediction at the receiver. As only the velocity and the updating difference information need be transmitted, this provides a reduction in the communication channel capacity required for video transmission. The scheme may be implemented by comparing the intensities of points in consecutive frames, identifying those points having a significant frame to frame intensity difference as part of the moving subject, determining an estimated velocity of the identified subject, predicting the present frame by translating a portion of the previous frame by the estimated velocity (the translated portion forming the identified subject), and transmitting the updating difference between the actual and predicted present frames along with the predictive velocity information.
Abstract:
A differential pulse code communication system is disclosed which digitally accumulates the difference signal in order to eliminate the matching problem inherent in prior art systems. In the transmitter the difference signals are digitally accumulated and converted to analog form for subtraction from the input signal, and at the receiver the difference signal is accumulated before it is converted to analog form to reconstruct the input signal.
Abstract:
A differential pulse code communication system is disclosed with sign prediction coding which reduces the number of digits required to describe the levels produced in the quantization of the differential signal. In the system the sign of the largest positive and negative levels of the quantizer are predicted by assuming that they have the same sign as the previous level. If the prediction is wrong a lower level with the correct sign is transmitted rather than the level with the predicted sign. Because of the prediction, additional levels may be added in the quantizer in the space otherwise reserved for the signs predicted without increasing the pulse rate of the system.