Patent ID: 6421386
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A method for coding a digital moving video including gray scale shape information, comprising the steps of:a) transmitting picture-unit overhead information; b) determining whether a video packet to be coded is a first packet of a given picture; c) transmitting a video packet header including overhead information for the decoding of said gray scale shape information if it is determined at said step b) that said video packet is not the first packet of the given picture; d) determining whether said given picture is an intra picture; e) coding and transmitting said video packet in an intra picture mode if it is determined at said step d) that said given picture is the intra picture; f) coding and transmitting said video packet in an inter picture mode if it is determined at said step d) that said given picture is not said intra picture; and g) determining whether said video packet is a last packet of said given picture, after it is coded and transmitted at said step e) or f), returning to said step b) if said video packet is not the last packet of said given picture and ending a digital moving video coding operation if said video packet is said last packet of said given picture.