VIDEO BANDWIDTH REDUCTION SYSTEM EMPLOYING INTERFRAME BLOCK DIFFERENCING AND TRANSFORM DOMAIN CODING

摘要

Video type information signals are compressed for transmission and reproduction by comparing corresponding blocks of time domain information signals from successive fields, converting a block of the time domain information signals to a transform domain signal represented by discrete cosine transform coefficients when the difference between the corresponding blocks exceeds a block difference threshold, and encoding the transform domain coefficients for transmission to a decoding site. Corresponding blocks of time domain information signals from successive fields are compared by storing the successive fields in memory on a pixel by pixel basis, retrieving each block on a pixel by pixel basis, forming the difference between corresponding pixels from the successive blocks, squaring the resulting difference signal, summing the squares and dividing by the number of pixels per block. Successive fields are merged by weighted summing of corresponding pixels.