Method of and apparatus for compressing and encoding digitized moving picture signals

摘要

A frame memory supplies picture signals from an input terminal to a motion vector detecting circuit after delaying them by one frame period. The motion vector detecting circuit detects a motion vector based on picture signals of the present frame from the input terminal and the delayed picture signals of the previous frame which are supplied from the frame memory. A motion compensation circuit corrects picture signals inputted thereto using the detected motion vector. An inter-frame coding circuit obtains inter-frame coded signals from the picture signals of the present frame, which were subjected to the motion compensation, and those of the previous frame decoded by a decoding circuit. The coded signals are outputted from an output terminal as a coded bit stream via a mixer along with the coded motion vector.