METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA COMPRESSION, IN PARTICULAR OF TELEVISION SIGNALS

摘要

An apparatus wherein signals which may cut out into data blocks comprising a number of similar information, are compared, in a slice, to a reference block, and only the data of the reference block, the data of the next block which differ from those of the reference blocks and a correlation signal are preserved so that the support required for the recording of the data may be substantially reduced with respect to the support which retains all the information of all the blocks. Application to video tape recorders.