A motion video compression system with adaptive quantisation

摘要

A system and method for coding a digitized picture is described. The picture is divided into a plurality of regions and then each region is further divided into a plurality of subregions. Linear combinations of pixels in each subregion are then computed. A subregional adaptive quantisation parameter for each of the subregions is then determined based on the coursness tolerance of that subregion as established by processing the linear combinations. A regional quantisation parameter for each region is then determined as a function of the subregional adaptive quantisation parameters and then a quantisation level for each of the regions is determined based on the regional quantisation parameter. Once the regional quantisation level for a region has been determined, it is transform encoded. The transform encoded representations of the regions are concatenated to obtain an encoded representation of the entire picture which can then be decoded for display or storage. <IMAGE>