Patent ID: 9565439
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A data compression system, comprising: a plurality of encoder-decoder pairs communicatively coupled in a concatenated chain and configured to receive input data and transform the input data into compressed output data, wherein the plurality of encoder-decoder pairs each comprise: a first encoder-decoder pair comprising: a first encoder configured to compress and to encode the input data; and a first decoder configured to decode the data encoded and compressed by the first encoder and to provide decoded data to a subsequent encoder-decoder pair; and at least one quality estimator communicatively coupled to the concatenated chain to determine one or more quality metrics corresponding to the decoded data provided by the first decoder, the decoded data provided by the additional decoder of the at least one addition encoder-decoder pairs, or a combination thereof; and a processing subsystem configured to optimize operation of each of the plurality of encoder-decoder pairs based upon the plurality of quality metrics, to achieve a desired level of optimization for the concatenated chain.