METHOD OF REDUCING THE DATA RATE OF DATA SUCCESSIVELY TRANSMITTED BETWEEN A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER, AND A SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD

摘要

The method and the system for compression of the flow of data between a television transmitter and a television receiver make provision at the transmitter for a differential coding system comprising a circuit for computation and propagation of coding costs with respect to visibility thresholds at which a coding error becomes apparent on the received image, coding being performed by utilizing at least two different quantization and/or prediction characteristics. A device connected to the differential coding system transmits to the receiver an indication relating to a change in characteristic instead of the data corresponding to the image point to be transmitted when the point is located within an image zone in which the change is necessary. A device is provided at the receiver for reconstructing the data corresponding to the non-transmitted point as a function of data of points already known to the receiver.