Patent ID: 7006567

Claim:
A method of representing a video information stream prior to transmission to generate a video information stream representation, said method comprising: a. decomposing said stream by generating K frames of dimension X by Y from said stream resulting in a first residual signal; b. comparing said residual signal with a dictionary of functions of size K by X by Y, said dictionary containing temporal and spatial functions; c. selecting a dictionary function which best matches the residual signal; d. encoding functions of said information stream using parameters and correlation coefficients of said selected dictionary function; e. generating a new information stream comprising a subsequent residual signal from said encoded stream; and f. repeating the steps b, c, d and e on said subsequent residual signal until a predefined constraint on at least one of the number of iterations, the quality of the encoded stream, and the bit rate of the encoded stream, is met; and g. repeating the above steps until the end of the information stream is reached.