Patent ID: 6018594
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: G11B,H03M,H04N

Abstract:
A method of encoding an integral body of information which is formed of a plurality of pixel data each defined by a predetermined number of bits, and is arranged on a finite length data line corresponding to a display frame or display field of a TV, wherein a data block, containing same continuous pixel data, is compressed as one unit of compression, the encoding method comprising:specifying the data block of the one compression unit of the integral body of information; andgenerating a compressed unit data block in accordance with a coding header corresponding to a continuing number of the same pixel data in the data block of the one compression unit, with a number of pixels followed indicating the continuing number of the same pixel data, and with data representing the same pixel data in the data block of the one compression unit, wherein:the coding header is indicative of a number of following bits representing a data length of the continuing number of the same pixel data,a number of bits in the coding header is indicative of the number of following bits representing the data length of the continuing number of the same pixel data andthe integral body of information includes a specific header comprising information of a size of the integral body of information.